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Author: Russ Miles
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 1492050970
Category: Computers
Page: 178
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Most companies work hard to avoid costly failures, but in complex systems a better approach is to embrace and learn from them. Through chaos engineering, you can proactively hunt for evidence of system weaknesses before they trigger a crisis. This practical book shows software developers and system administrators how to plan and run successful chaos engineering experiments. System weaknesses go beyond your infrastructure, platforms, and applications to include policies, practices, playbooks, and people. Author Russ Miles explains why, when, and how to test systems, processes, and team responses using simulated failures on Game Days. You’ll also learn how to work toward continuous chaos through automation with features you can share across your team and organization. Learn to think like a chaos engineer Build a hypothesis backlog to determine what could go wrong in your system Develop your hypotheses into chaos engineering experiment Game Days Write, run, and learn from automated chaos experiments using the open source Chaos Toolkit Turn chaos experiments into tests to confirm that you’ve overcome the weaknesses you discovered Observe and control your automated chaos experiments while they are running
( 4 ) Re [ H ( jo ) ) ] S - 14 , Im [ H ( jw ) ] = 0 , which indicates merging of the spiral
chaos into the double scroll behavior . This report has introduced the idea of
fractional derivatives from the dynamic systems viewpoint . It has been
demonstrated ...
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This report studies the effects of fractional dynamics in chaotic systems. In particular, Chua's system is modified to include fractional order elements. Varying the total system order incrementally from 2.6 to 3.7 demonstrates that systems of "order" less than three can exhibit chaos as well as other nonlinear behavior. This effectively forces a clarification of the definition of order which can no longer be considered only by the total number of differentiations or by the highest power of the Laplace variable.
ALSO BY JESSICA SORENSEN Enchanted Detectives Series: Enchanted Chaos
Shimmering Chaos Iridescent Chaos (coming soon) Guardian Academy Series:
Entranced Entangled Enchanted Entice The Forest of Shadow and Bones ...
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Publisher: Jessica Sorensen
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Category: Fiction
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Skylin’s life is quickly turning into a chaotic mess the longer she stays with the Everettsons. Not that it’s their fault. No, her rare powers are causing most of the chaos. Not only is something as simple as going to school becoming dangerous, but her dreams of darkness are becoming more frequent and intense. Fortunately, she has Foster and his brothers help her. And the link between them. That is until an incident at school happens. Then things start to get really complicated. And those complications only get worse as the wall around Skylin begins to dissolve, and the secrets hidden behind it are revealed.
Remember when you can't get things right with another, your first job is to resolve
your internal chaos and accept the situation as being the Universe's lesson for
you and your growth. Don't just travel down any path to engage with a problem.
Author: Carolyn Gross
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1642793876
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 179
View: 258
Rise Above the Chaos serves as a self-help tool that shows readers how to become calm, centered, and poised in the midst of a non-stop crisis world. In today’s world, technology has added additional pressure and anxiety to life rather than saving precious time. With digital distractions and social isolation, people become less self-aware—an important key to surviving. Award-winning speaker, coach, and patient advocate Carolyn Gross offers her own story of transformation as a tool for others to go from burnout to brilliance and realize they can create personal chaos—or not—simply by controlling their responses to life’s events. Rise Above the Chaos offers life exploration methods to help determine how stress is affecting readers’ lives and health before providing the tools to restore, relax, and renew. Readers learn to identify internal vs. external chaos so they can manage both without adding stress. Carolyn lifts readers’ awareness and helps them gain perspective on how adversity can actually sharpen their wits and skills, ultimately making them more joyful, powerful, and confident.
Chaos. By. Jessica. Chase. *** Peter takes his job seriously, and has a perfect
track record of investigating cases. When he finds himself partnered with the
notoriously difficult Charlie, he finds himself facing a new range of problems. ***
Peter ...
Author: Jessica Chase
Publisher: Torquere Press, LLC
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Author: Ottilie von Goethe
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Category: German literature
Page: 347
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BACKGROUND Sir Isaac Newton hrought to the world the idea of modeling the motion of physical systems with equations.
Author: Kathleen Alligood
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642592813
Category: Mathematics
Page: 603
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BACKGROUND Sir Isaac Newton hrought to the world the idea of modeling the motion of physical systems with equations. It was necessary to invent calculus along the way, since fundamental equations of motion involve velocities and accelerations, of position. His greatest single success was his discovery that which are derivatives the motion of the planets and moons of the solar system resulted from a single fundamental source: the gravitational attraction of the hodies. He demonstrated that the ohserved motion of the planets could he explained hy assuming that there is a gravitational attraction he tween any two ohjects, a force that is proportional to the product of masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The circular, elliptical, and parabolic orhits of astronomy were v INTRODUCTION no longer fundamental determinants of motion, but were approximations of laws specified with differential equations. His methods are now used in modeling motion and change in all areas of science. Subsequent generations of scientists extended the method of using differ ential equations to describe how physical systems evolve. But the method had a limitation. While the differential equations were sufficient to determine the behavior-in the sense that solutions of the equations did exist-it was frequently difficult to figure out what that behavior would be. It was often impossible to write down solutions in relatively simple algebraic expressions using a finite number of terms. Series solutions involving infinite sums often would not converge beyond some finite time.
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Author: Richard Kautz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199594589
Category: Mathematics
Page: 369
View: 747
Chaos: The Science of Predictable Random Motion bridges the gap between introductions for the layman and college-level texts with an account of chaos theory based on elementary mathematics. It develops the science of dynamics in terms of small time steps, describes the phenomenon of chaos through simple examples, and concludes with a close look at a homoclinic tangle, the mathematical monster at the heart of chaos. The presentation is enhanced by numerousfigures, animations of chaotic motion (available on a companion CD), and biographical sketches of the pioneers of dynamics and chaos theory.
This is the first book to present a unified treatment of the mixing of fluids from a kinematical viewpoint.
Author: J. M. Ottino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521368780
Category: Mathematics
Page: 364
View: 573
This is the first book to present a unified treatment of the mixing of fluids from a kinematical viewpoint.
We are confronted with emergent systems everywhere and Holland shows how a theory of emergence can predict many complex behaviours in art and science. This book will appeal to scientists and anyone interested in scientific theory.
Author: John H. Holland
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780192862112
Category: Mathematics
Page: 258
View: 927
We are confronted with emergent systems everywhere and Holland shows how a theory of emergence can predict many complex behaviours in art and science. This book will appeal to scientists and anyone interested in scientific theory.
In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us.
Author: James Gleick
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453210474
Category: Science
Page: 360
View: 352
The “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information (Chicago Tribune). For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is “a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics” by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Stanton Arthur Coblentz
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This is made possible by the unique properties of chaos. In particular, chaotic
attractors typically have an infinite dense set of unstable periodic orbi ts
embedded within them. In this paper we review aspects of controlling chaos by
means of ...
Author: Kevin Judd
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780817638672
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 333
View: 714
The articles in this Control and Chaos volume are an outgrowth of a US-Australia workshop held in Hawaii in 1995. Experts in dynamical systems theory and control theory from the US and Australia, as well as England and Japan, focused on the problem of controlling nonlinear and potentially chaotic systems using limited control effort. The formal contributions take into account the discussions and commentaries of the participants and are reflected at the end of each article. Part I contains papers dealing with modeling, behavior, reconstruction, prediction and numerics. Part II deals with controlling complex systems by means of embedding unstable periodic orbits, targeting, filtering, optimization and adaptive methods. Part III contains four applications papers including the control of a bouncing ball, evolutionary stability, chaos in ecosystems, and neural networks. Contents and Contributors: Understanding Complex Dynamics Triangulating Noisy Dynamical Systems S. Allie, A. Mees, K. Judd, D. Watson Attractor Reconstruction and Control Using Interspike Intervals T. Sauer Modeling Chaos from Experimental Data K. Judd, A. Mees Chaos in Symplectic Discretization of the Pendulum and Sine-Gordon Equations B.M. Herbst, C.M. Schober Collapsing Effects in Computation of Dynamical Systems P. Diamond, P. Kloeden, A. Pokrovskii Bifurications in the Falkner-Skan equation C. Sparrow Some Characterizations of Low-dimensional Dynamical Systems with Time-reversal Symmetry J.A.G. Roberts Controlling Complex Systems Control of Chaos by Means of Embedded Unstable Periodic Orbits E. Ott, B.R. Hunt Notch Filter Feedback Control for k-Period Motion in a Chaotic System W.J. Grantham, A.M. Athalye Targeting and Control of Chaos E.J. Kostelich, E. Barreto Adaptive Nonlinear Control: A Lyapunov Approach P.V. Kokotovic, M. Krstic Creating and Targeting Periodic Orbits K. Glass, M. Renton, K. Judd, A. Mees Dynamical Systems, Optimization, and Chaos J.B. Moore Combined Controls for Noisy Chaotic Systems M. Paskota, K.L. Teo, A. Mees Complex Dynamics in Adaptive Systems I.M.Y. Mareels Hitting Times to a Target for the Baker's Map A. Mazer Applications Controllable Targets Near a Chaotic Attractor T.L. Vincent The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stable Strategies Y. Cohen, T.L. Vincent Nitrogen Cycling and the Control of Chaos in a Boreal Forest Model J. Pastor, Y. Cohen Self-organization Dynamics in Chaotic Neural Networks M. Watanabe, K. Aihara, S. Kondo Series: Mathematical Modeling, Volume 8
When we consider the case of chaos , there does not seem to be a common
physical explanation . What we do find in common is the behavior of the models
in an abstract state space , the details of which we shall introduce in Chapters 3
and 4 ...
Author: Robert C. Hilborn
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198507239
Category: Mathematics
Page: 650
View: 454
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics introduces students, scientists, and engineers to the full range of activity in the rapidly growing field on nonlinear dynamics. Using a step-by-step introduction to dynamics and geometry in state space as the central focus of understanding nonlinear dynamics, thisbook includes a thorough treatment of both differential equation models and iterated map models (including a derivation of the famous Feigenbaum numbers). It is the only book at this level to include the increasingly important field of pattern formation and a survey of the controversial questions ofquantum chaos. Important tools such as Lyapunov exponents and fractal dimensions are treated in detail. With over 200 figures and diagrams, and analytic and computer exercises for every chapter, the book can be used as a course-text or for self-instruction. This second edition has been restructuredto make the book even more useful as a course text:many of the more complex examples and derivations have been moved to appendices. The extensive collection of annotated references has been updated through January 2000 and now includes listings of World Wide Web sites at many of the major nonlineardynamics research centers. From reviews on the 1/e: 'What has been lacking is a single book that takes the reader with nothing but a knowledge of elementary calculus and physics all the way to the frontiers of research in chaos and nonlinear dynamics in all its facets. [...] a serious student,teacher, or researcher would be delighted to have this book on the shelf as a reference and as a window to the literature in this exciting and rapidly growing new field of chaos.' J.C. Sprott, American Journal of Physics, September 19944 'I congratulate the author on having managed to write anextremely thorough, comprehensive, and entertaining introduction to the fascinating field of nonlinear dynamics. His book is highly self- explanatory and ideally suited for self-instruction. There is hardly any question that the author does not address in an exceptionally readable manner. [...] Istrongly recommend it to those looking for a comprehensive, practical, and not highly mathematical approach to the subject.' E.A. Hunt, IEEE Spectrum, December 1994
Noise Performance of Differential Chaos Shift Keying Henry Leung and Haiyang
Yu Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Calgary Calgary
AB T2N 1N4 , Canada leunghQenel.ucalgary.ca Abstract . This chapter provides
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Author: Guanrong Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540404057
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 374
View: 795
Chaos control refers to purposefully manipulating chaotic dynamical behaviors of some complex nonlinear systems. There exists no similar control theory-oriented book available in the market that is devoted to the subject of chaos control, written by control engineers for control engineers. World-renowned leading experts in the field provide their state-of-the-art survey about the extensive research that has been done over the last few years in this subject. The new technology of chaos control has major impact on novel engineering applications such as telecommunications, power systems, liquid mixing, internet technology, high-performance circuits and devices, biological systems modeling like the brain and the heart, and decision making. The book is not only aimed at active researchers in the field of chaos control involving control and systems engineers, theoretical and experimental physicists, and applied mathematicians, but also at a general audience in related fields.
For this reason , chaos and complexity theory is applicable to organizations . This
Info - line will define chaos and complexity theory and apply this theory to
business management . By describing the characteristics of chaos and
complexity ...
Author: T. J. Titcomb
Publisher: American Society for Training and Development
ISBN: 9781562862299
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 16
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Do decisions and ever-changing strategies make you believe that your organization operates in a state of chaos? Maybe it does - and for good reason. This issue describes the characteristics of chaos and complexity theory found in most organization and how it affects decisions and business management. A beginners guide shows you how to apply these complex theories to understand your organization and the direct consequences for trainers. A glossary of terms is provided as a guide to your baseline understanding of the field.
Chaos-Based. Cryptography. Jose Maria Amigo Centro de Investigacion
Operativa, Universidad Miguel Hernandez Avda. ... To begin with, it appeared
outside conventional cryptography, first as an application of chaos theory [56].
and a short ...
Author: Ljupco Kocarev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540959718
Category: Mathematics
Page: 380
View: 117
Chaos is a fascinating phenomenon that has been observed in nature, laboratory, and has been applied in various real-world applications. Chaotic systems are deterministic with no random elements involved yet their behavior appears to be random. Obser- tions of chaotic behavior in nature include weather and climate, the dynamics of sat- lites in the solar system, the time evolution of the magnetic field of celestial bodies, population growth in ecology, to mention only a few examples. Chaos has been observed in the laboratory in a number of systems such as electrical circuits, lasers, chemical reactions, fluid dynamics, mechanical systems, and magneto-mechanical devices. Chaotic behavior has also found numerous applications in electrical and communication engineering, information and communication technologies, biology and medicine. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first book edited on chaos applications in intelligent computing. To access the latest research related to chaos applications in intelligent computing, we launched the book project where researchers from all over the world provide the necessary coverage of the mentioned field. The primary obj- tive of this project was to assemble as much research coverage as possible related to the field by defining the latest innovative technologies and providing the most c- prehensive list of research references.
Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H.
Damon. 8 Afterword Order is What Happens When Chaos Loses Its Temper Roy
Wagner Heuristic Modeling and the Self - Validation of Deception The so - called
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Author: Mark S. Mosko
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845450243
Category: Social Science
Page: 276
View: 943
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
Chaos in Action THE PINBALL MACHINE is one of those rare dynamical systems
whose chaotic nature we can deduce by pure qualitative reasoning, with fair
confidence that we have not wandered astray. Nevertheless, the angles in the
paths ...
Author: Flavio Lorenzelli
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203214587
Category: Science
Page: 227
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The study of chaotic systems has become a major scientific pursuit in recent years, shedding light on the apparently random behaviour observed in fields as diverse as climatology and mechanics. InThe Essence of Chaos Edward Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos and the originator of its seminal concept of the Butterfly Effect, presents his own landscape of our current understanding of the field. Lorenz presents everyday examples of chaotic behaviour, such as the toss of a coin, the pinball's path, the fall of a leaf, and explains in elementary mathematical strms how their essentially chaotic nature can be understood. His principal example involved the construction of a model of a board sliding down a ski slope. Through this model Lorenz illustrates chaotic phenomena and the related concepts of bifurcation and strange attractors. He also provides the context in which chaos can be related to the similarly emergent fields of nonlinearity, complexity and fractals. As an early pioneer of chaos, Lorenz also provides his own story of the human endeavour in developing this new field. He describes his initial encounters with chaos through his study of climate and introduces many of the personalities who contributed early breakthroughs. His seminal paper, "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wing in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" is published for the first time.
Chapter 5 Cognitive Psychology and Chaos Theory : Some Possible Clinical
Implications William McCown , Ross Keiser , & Anthony Roden COGNITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY AND CHAOS THEORY Chaos theory is an advanced field of ...
Author: Linda L. Chamberlain
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780876309261
Category: Psychology
Page: 225
View: 783
Psychology and the social sciences are in need of a new foundation, one that provides a better model for understanding complex behavior. Chaos theory and its newest permutation, complexity theory, offers an innovative, exciting and potentially revolutionary leap forward in the evolution of scientific thought. In Clinical Chaos, therapists and theoreticians from various areas in the social sciences will explore the relevance and implications for non-linear dynamics in observing, explaining, and understanding human behavior. At last, the scientific search can again encompass surprise, transformation, unpredictability, and pattern. This book is intended to introduce social scientists to chaos through paths that are already familiar. By linking chaos theory with existing psychological theories and established areas of clinical pursuit, Clinical Chaos emphasizes the relevance of this new science in providing a more flexible useful model for complexities of life.