Since the subject of traffic dynamics has captured the interest of physicists, many surprising
effects have been revealed and explained. Some of the questions now understood are the …

We review the behavior of theoretical models of excitable systems driven by Gaussian white
noise. We focus mainly on those general properties of such systems that are due to noise …

From the Publisher: With the publication of this book, Hans-Paul Schwefel has responded to
rapidly growing interest in Evolutionary Computation, a field that originated, in part, with his …

There is no doubt that nowadays, biology benefits greatly from mathematics. In particular,
cellular biology is, besides population dynamics, a field where tech niques of mathematical …

Many human social phenomena, such as cooperation,,, the growth of settlements, traffic
dynamics,, and pedestrian movement,,,, appear to be accessible to mathematical …

When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods
from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and …

Active walker models have recently proved their great value for describing the formation of
clusters, periodic patterns, and spiral waves as well as the development of rivers, dielectric …

Nonlinear transport phenomena are an increasingly important aspect of modern
semiconductor research. This volume deals with complex nonlinear dynamics, pattern …

Mathematical modeling is the art of describing real-world phenomena in the terms of
mathematical concepts. The increasing importance of mathematical modeling in solving …

We study a model of Brownian particles which are pumped with energy by means of a non-
linear friction function, for which different types are discussed. A suitable expression for a …