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Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Systems: Networks and Bioprocesses

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Arne T. Skjeltorp

    1. Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. Alexander V. Belushkin

    1. Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia

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  • Complexity and Networks
  • Organization and Networks of Living Matter
  • Synergies between Networks

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 232)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. STRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

    • KIM SNEPPEN
    Pages 1-28

  3. EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ON SEARCH AND RANKING IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

    • HUAFENG XIE, KOON-KIU YAN, SERGEI MASLOV
    Pages 29-37

  4. THE SOS RESPONSE OF BACTERIA TO DNA DAMAGE

    • JOEL STAVANS
    Pages 39-47

  5. SELF-AFFINE SCALING DURING INTERFACIAL CRACK FRONT PROPAGATION

    • STÉPHANE SANTUCCI, KNUT JØRGEN MÅLØY, RENAUD TOUSSAINT, JEAN SCHMITTBUHL
    Pages 49-59

  6. DIFFUSION, FRAGMENTATION AND MERGING PROCESSES IN ICE CRYSTALS, ALPHA HELICES AND OTHER SYSTEMS

    • JESPER FERKINGHOFF-BORG, MOGENS H. JENSEN, POUL OLESEN, JOACHIM MATHIESEN
    Pages 61-70

  7. MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN BIOSIGNALLING: VISUAL RECEPTION

    • MIKHAIL A. OSTROVSKY
    Pages 71-106

  8. THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLEXITY: FROM WWW TO CELLULAR METABOLISM

    • EIVIND ALMAAS, ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI
    Pages 107-125

  9. MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF NEURAL ACTIVITY

    • GAUTE T. EINEVOLL
    Pages 127-145

  10. BRAIDED SPACE-TIME PARTICLE NETWORKS

    • K. de LANGE KRISTIANSEN, G. HELGESEN, A.T. SKJELTORP
    Pages 147-162

  11. COMBINING OPTICAL TWEEZERS AND MICROPIPETTES FOR DNA STRETCHING: ELASTICITY OF MICROPIPETTE CRUCIAL

    • THOMAS MØLLER HANSEN, NADER REIHANI, LENE ODDERSHEDE
    Pages 163-173

  12. UNIVERSAL NETWORKS AND PROCESSES IN SOFT AND COMPLEX MATTER: FROM NANO TO MACRO

    • JON OTTO FOSSUM
    Pages 175-190

  13. WHAT ECONOMISTS SHOULD LEARN FROM ECONOPHYSICS

    • JOSEPH L. MCCAULEY, GEMUNU H. GUNARATNE, KEVIN E. BASSLER
    Pages 191-202

  14. THE MINORITY GAME: STATISTICAL PHYSICS OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF ADAPTIVE AGENTS IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET

    • DAVID SHERRINGTON
    Pages 203-210

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 211-211
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About this book

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held at Geilo, Norway, 11-21 April 2005, the eighteenth ASI in a series held every two years since 1971. The objective of this ASI was to identify and discuss areas where synergism between modern physics and biology may be most fruitfully applied to the study of bioprocesses for molecular recognition, and of networks for converting molecular reactions into usable signals and appropriate responses. Many fields of research are confronted with networks. Genetic and metabolic networks describe how proteins, substrates and genes interact in a cell; social networks quantify the interactions between people in the society; the Internet is a complex web of computers; ecological systems are best described as a web of species. In many cases, the interacting networks manifest so-called emergent properties that are not possessed by any of the individual components. This means that the detailed knowledge of the components is insufficient to describe the whole system. Recent work has indicated that networks in nature have so-called scale-free characteristics, and the associated dynamic network modelling shows unexpected results such as an amazing robustness against accidental failures, a property that is rooted in their inhomogeneous topology. Understanding these phenomena and turning them to use in chemical and biological threat detection and response will require exploring a wide range of network structures as well.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

    Arne T. Skjeltorp

  • Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia

    Alexander V. Belushkin

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