Table of Contents
Introduction
Franco Orsucci and Nicoletta Sala
Acceleration and Entropy: A Macroscopic Analogue of the Twin Paradox
Ilya Prigogine and Gonzalo Ordonez
William James on Consciousness, Revisited
Walter J. Freeman
The Structural Equations Technique for Testing Hypotheses in Nonlinear Dynamics: Catastrophes, Chaos, and Related Dynamics
Stephen J. Guastello
Dynamical Prediction of Chaotic Time Series
Ulrich Parlitz and Alexander Hornstein
Synchronization of Oscillators in Complex Networks
Louis M. Pecora and Mauricio Barahona
Contribution to the Debate on Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of the Electroencephalogram
Francesco Ferro Milone, Alberta Leon Cananzi, Tullio A. Minelli, Valentina Nofrate, and Donatella Pascoli
Detection of Transient Synchronization in Multivariate Brain Signals, Application to Event-Related Potentials
Axel Hutt and Michael Schrauf
The Fractal Variogran Analysis as General Tool to Measure Normal and Altered Metabolism States and the Genetic Instability: An Application to the Case of the Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
Elio Conte, Gianpaolo Pierri, Antonio Federici, Leonardo Mendolicchio, and Joseph P. Zbilut
Complex Dynamics of Visual Arts
Ljubiša M. Kocic and Liljana Stefanovska
Noninvertible Maps and Complex Basin Boundaries in Dynamic Economic Models with Coexisting Attractors
Gian-Italo Bischi, Laura Gardini, and Michael Kopel
Adaptive Synchronization of Two Different Uncertain Chaotic Systems
Mohammad Pourmahmood
Extended Prigogine Theorem: Method for Universal Characterization of Complex System Evolution
Sergey Kamenshchikov
A Beginner’s Guide to the Nature and Potentialities of Dynamical and Network Theory, Part I: A Very Very Brief Visual Introduction to the Theory of Dynamical Systems
Frederick David Abraham
A Simple Model of Intermittent Chaos
Y. Ohtaki, K. Takara, F. Onodera, N. Sato, H.-H. Hasegawa, and D.J. Driebe
Synchronization of Fractals in Logarithmic Spirals
Robert A. M. Gregson
Chaos in Returns and Volatilities of the London Gold Fix
John Francis T. Diaz
