Publisher's Synopsis
The Third Woodward Conference served as a forum for experts in numerous disciplines to discuss problems in modelling complex phenomena in both social and natural sciences. This volume contains both review articles and reports of recent research.;Two recurrent themes are chaos and self-organized criticality. Among the topics covered in the volume are: general problems in the modelling of complex systems, such as machine learning of natural languages; nonlinear forecasting, with relevance, for example, to the arms race; chaotic dynamics and economics; modelling of complex phenomena in fluids; earthquake modelling and self-organized criticality; and mathematical models of complex patterns.
