Complexity versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery

1999 ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Tito Arecchi
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Versus Complex

A new approach to the logic of discovery

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Gerald Massey
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Logic Of Discovery ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Sense

Contending that the quest for a logic of scientific discovery was prematurely abandoned, the author lays down eight phenomena that such a logic or theory must explain: the banality of scientific discovery; the trainability of scientists; the high incidence of simultaneous discoveries; the ubiquity of relative novices; the fact of scientific genius; the barrenness of isolated workers; the incommensurability of concepts of successive theories; and the quasi-incorporation of old concepts, objects, and methods in successor theories, The author then presents a new theory or logic of discovery according to which discoveries are the termini of "tweak paths" generated when scientists "tinker" with the laws, concepts, methods, and instruments of a given theory. Tinkering and tweaking are illustrated by examples from many-valued and modal logic and from Darwinian biology. Through the history of planetary discovery, the accidental role played by luck or good fortune in some discoveries is explored, but the author emphasizes that in a deep sense serendipity is an in eliminable feature of all scientific discovery because scientists never know m advance whether their tweaks will lead to dead ends or to positive developments. The author's new theory of scientific discovery is shown to account for all eight explananda, ft also reveals science to be a more egalitarian enterprise than the traditional view of scientific discovery as ultimately inexplicable depicts it.

Application of Jarzynski’s equality in simple versus complex systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 436 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turgut Baştuğ ◽  
Serdar Kuyucak
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Versus Complex ◽  
Jarzynski’S Equality

Development of a new approach to data analysis of complex systems: study of synchronization in the dynamics of solar activity parameters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin A. Yunusov ◽  
Sergey A. Demin ◽  
Sergey F. Timashev ◽  
Natalya Y. Demina
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Solar Activity ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals New Approach to the Simulation of Complex Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bogdanov ◽  
Alexander Degtyarev ◽  
Vladimir Korkhov
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
New Approach

New approach to requirements trade-off analysis for complex systems

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lee ◽  
Jong-Yih Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Trade Off

Statistical Estimation and Elimination of Thermal Network Model Errors

1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Browne
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Statistical Estimation ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Canonical Forms ◽  
Model Errors ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Thermal Network ◽  
Model Predictions

A new approach is developed for estimating and correcting digital thermal network errors based upon achieving statistical reconciliation between model predictions and observed results. The development is preceded by a review of the general theory of thermal networks and the development of the canonical forms of networks and their error models. Application of the technique promises improved thermal prediction accuracy of complex systems using simplified network models.

Valence–Bond Order (VBO): A New Approach to Modeling Reactive Potential Energy Surfaces for Complex Systems, Materials, and Nanoparticles

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 594-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiyu Zhao ◽  
Mark A. Iron ◽  
Przemysław Staszewski ◽  
Nathan E. Schultz ◽  
Rosendo Valero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Potential Energy Surfaces ◽  
Bond Order ◽  
Valence Bond ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Reactive Potential ◽  
Energy Surfaces
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