Complex Systems and Cognitive Processes - Softcover

Serra, Roberto; Zanarini, Gianni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 364246680X ISBN 13: 9783642466809

Verlag: Springer, 2012

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This volume describes our intellectual path from the physics of complex sys­ tems to the science of artificial cognitive systems. It was exciting to discover that many of the concepts and methods which succeed in describing the self­ organizing phenomena of the physical world are relevant also for understand­ ing cognitive processes. Several nonlinear physicists have felt the fascination of such discovery in recent years. In this volume, we will limit our discussion to artificial cognitive systems, without attempting to model either the cognitive behaviour or the nervous structure of humans or animals. On the one hand, such artificial systems are important per se; on the other hand, it can be expected that their study will shed light on some general principles which are relevant also to biological cognitive systems. The main purpose of this volume is to show that nonlinear dynamical systems have several properties which make them particularly attractive for reaching some of the goals of artificial intelligence. The enthusiasm which was mentioned above must however be qualified by a critical consideration of the limitations of the dynamical systems approach. Understanding cognitive processes is a tremendous scientific challenge, and the achievements reached so far allow no single method to claim that it is the only valid one. In particular, the approach based upon nonlinear dynamical systems, which is our main topic, is still in an early stage of development.

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Roberto Serra, full professor of Complex Systems at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (now retired), has previously been the Head of the Environmental Research Centre of the Montedison industrial group, the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AI*IA, the Chairman of the Science Board of the European Centre for Living Technology and a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests, besides protocells, concern the dynamical modelling of Complex Systems, with applications to gene regulatory networks and cell differentiation, the analysis of their organization and the dynamical systems approach to Artificial Intelligence. He is the author or editor of eleven books and of about 190 papers in international journals and conference proceedings with peer review. Marco Villani is associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a fellow of the European Centre for Living Technology. His main research interests, besides protocells, concern the identification and analysis of the organization of Complex Systems. In particular, he studies the dynamic modeling of gene regulation systems and socio-technological systems. He has been a member of the board of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) and is currently a member of the Science Board of the European Centre for Living Technology. He is the author or editor of five books and of about 170 papers in international journals and conference proceedings with peer review.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 364246680X
• ISBN 13: 9783642466809
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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