COMPLEX SYSTEMS: NEW CHALLENGES WITH MODELING HEADACHES

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. BELLOMO ◽  
F. BREZZI
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Challenges

This brief note is an introduction to the papers published in this special issue devoted to complex systems in life sciences. Out of this presentation some perspective ideas on conceivable future research objectives are extracted and brought to the reader's attention. The final (ambitious) aim is to develop a mathematical theory for complex living systems.

Mathematics, complexity and multiscale features of large systems of self-propelled particles

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Bellomo ◽  
F. Brezzi
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Large Systems

This issue is devoted to complex systems in life sciences. Some perspective ideas on possible objectives of future research are extracted from the contents of this issue and brought to the reader’s attention. The final ambitious aim is the development of a mathematical theory for complex living systems.

MATHEMATICS AND COMPLEXITY OF MULTI-PARTICLE SYSTEMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 1103001 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. BELLOMO ◽  
F. BREZZI
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Particle Systems ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Special Issue

This brief note presents the papers published in a special issue devoted to complex systems in life sciences. Out of the set of papers some perspective ideas on conceivable future researches are extracted and brought to the attention of the readers. The final ambitious aim is to contribute to the development of a mathematical theory for complex living systems.

Modeling behavioral social systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Bellomo ◽  
F. Brezzi ◽  
M. Pulvirenti
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue

This paper presents the papers published in a special issue devoted to the modeling of behavioral social systems. Some perspective ideas on possible objectives of future research are extracted from the contents of this issue and brought to the reader’s attention. The final ambitious aim is the development of a mathematical theory for complex living systems.

Selected Papers from ISCIIA 2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-321
Author(s):  
Yasufumi Takama
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
New Challenges

The 4th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (ISCIIA2010), held at the Harbin University of Science and Technology in Heilongjiang Province, China, in August 2010 focused on advanced technologies for computational intelligence and industrial applications. A series of ISCIIA symposiums has provided a unique opportunity for the academic and industrial communities to address new challenges, share new-found solutions, and discuss directions for future research. Of the ISCIIA2010fs 50 papers, 11 outstanding papers have been selected for this special issue after fair and strict review process. Among this issuefs topics are fuzzy logic,Web mining, Kansei Information Processing (KIP), brain informatics, and human-centered systems. Given the importance of these topics to both the academic and industrial communities, this issue should contribute much to active exchange between both communities. As the Editor of this special issue, I thank all of the contributors and reviewers for their time and cooperation. Herefs hoping that the next ISCIIA, which is being held in Hokkaido, Japan, in 2012, will be as successful and fruitful as the 2010 symposium has been.

ON THE DIFFICULT INTERPLAY BETWEEN LIFE, "COMPLEXITY", AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1861-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. BELLOMO ◽  
D. KNOPOFF ◽  
J. SOLER
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Theory ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Stochastic Games ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Active Particles ◽  
Suitable Generalization ◽  
Mathematical Sciences

This paper presents a revisiting, with developments, of the so-called kinetic theory for active particles, with the main focus on the modeling of nonlinearly additive interactions. The approach is based on a suitable generalization of methods of kinetic theory, where interactions are depicted by stochastic games. The basic idea consists in looking for a general mathematical structure suitable to capture the main features of living, hence complex, systems. Hopefully, this structure is a candidate towards the challenging objective of designing a mathematical theory of living systems. These topics are treated in the first part of the paper, while the second one applies it to specific case studies, namely to the modeling of crowd dynamics and of the immune competition.

scholarly journals Disgust and political attitudes

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bang Petersen ◽  
Joshua M. Tybur ◽  
Patrick A. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
File Drawer ◽  
File Drawer Problem

AbstractWe introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences Special Issue on Disgust and Political Attitudes discussing the importance of understanding state and trait disgust, the innovative and transparent process by which registered reports and preregistered studies were chosen and funded, and the manuscripts that make up this special issue. This essay concludes by discussing future research directions in disgust and political attitudes, as well as the benefits of a transparent review process that avoids the “file drawer problem” of unpublished null findings.

scholarly journals Introduction

Social Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kyla Schuller ◽  
Jules Gill-Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Racial Difference ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
State Power ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Central Axis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Specific Meaning

In this special issue, the contributors argue that plasticity, the capacity of living systems to generate and take on new forms, is a central axis of biopolitical governance. While plasticity has a specific meaning in the life sciences, conceptually it has infused a broad range of theoretical, material, and scientific idioms for describing the malleability of a given body or system. Each of these conceptions of plasticity provides an account of malleability that, seemingly inexhaustible in its disorganizing qualities, has sometimes been framed as a resource for the disruption of normalizing systems of power. The articles in this special issue show that, by contrast, plasticity does not resist but is actually enlisted by state power through biopolitics. “The Biopolitics of Plasticity” investigates how race and state power actually depend on and enlist malleability and formlessness to govern living populations and individuals. By unevenly distributing the capacity of corporeal malleability, plasticity functions as a key logic underpinning the modern notion of racial difference. The issue’s introduction proposes a critical reckoning with the racial politics of this important concept to ask new questions about how to understand the organic malleability of the body and such categories as race, sex, gender, and sexuality.

scholarly journals From particles to firms: on the kinetic theory of climbing up evolutionary landscapes

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (07) ◽  
pp. 1441-1460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Bellomo ◽  
Giovanni Dosi ◽  
Damián A. Knopoff ◽  
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Theory ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Mathematical Representation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Industrial Dynamics ◽  
Modeling And Simulations ◽  
Active Particles

This paper constitutes the first attempt to bridge the evolutionary theory in economics and the theory of active particles in mathematics. It seeks to present a kinetic model for an evolutionary formalization of economic dynamics. The new derived mathematical representation intends to formalize the processes of learning and selection as the two fundamental drivers of evolutionary environments [G. Dosi, M.-C. Pereira and M.-E. Virgillito, The footprint of evolutionary processes of learning and selection upon the statistical properties of industrial dynamics, Ind. Corp. Change, 26 (2017) 187–210]. To coherently represent the aforementioned properties, the kinetic theory of active particles [N. Bellomo, A. Bellouquid, L. Gibelli and N. Outada, A Quest Towards a Mathematical Theory of Living Systems (Birkhäuser-Springer, 2017)] is here further developed, including the complex interaction of two hierarchical functional subsystems. Modeling and simulations enlighten the predictive ability of the approach. Finally, we outline the potential avenues for future research.

Towards a multiscale vision of active particles

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 581-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Bellomo ◽  
F. Brezzi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Active Particles ◽  
Large Systems

The aim of this paper is first to provide a presentation of the papers published in a special issue devoted to modeling, qualitative analysis, control and simulations of large systems of living entities, viewed as active particles, related to real-life applications, and subsequently to present some prospective ideas on possible future research programs for the development of mathematical tools to model living systems.

scholarly journals Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studies

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 3319-3348 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Troy ◽  
M. Konar ◽  
V. Srinivasan ◽  
S. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Coupled System ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current State ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social

Abstract. Sociohydrology is the study of coupled human–water systems with the premise that water and human systems co-evolve, often with two-way coupling. A recent special issue in HESS/ESD, "Predictions under change: water, earth, and biota in the Anthropocene", includes a number of sociohydrologic publications that allow for a survey of the current state of understanding of sociohydrology and the coupled system dynamics and feedbacks, the research methodologies available, and the norms and ethics involved in studying sociohydrologic systems. Although sociohydrology is concerned with coupled human–water systems, it is critical to consider the sociohydrologic system as embedded in a larger, complex social–ecological system through which human–water feedbacks can occur and from which the sociohydrologic system cannot be isolated. As such, sociohydrology can draw on tools developed in the social–ecological and complex systems literature to further our sociohydrologic knowledge, and this is identified as a ripe area of future research.

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