Entropy Production by Earth System Processes -- Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in an Energy-Rich Universe -- Stumbling Into the MEP Racket: An Historical Perspective -- Maximum Entropy Production and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics -- Using Ecology to Quantify Organization in Fluid Flows -- Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility: Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle -- …
Preliminaries -- Perturbations of Linear Systems -- Linear Systems with Slowly Varying Coefficients -- Linear Dissipative and Piecewise Constant Systems -- Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts -- The Aizerman Problem -- Nonlinear Systems with Time-Variant Linear Parts -- Essentially Nonlinear Systems -- The Lur'e Type Systems -- The Aizerman Type Problem for Nonautonomous Systems -- I…
Evolvable Robots -- Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot -- Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques -- Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots -- Evolvable Hardware Synthesis -- Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous …
Origin of entropy in the work of Clausius -- Entropy in the work of Carathéodory. Absolute temperature -- Entropy in the work of Boltzmann -- Enthalpy and equations of state -- Gases and Rubber -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Entropy and energy in competition -- Planetary atmospheres -- Entropy of mixing. Osmosis -- Phase transition -- Phase diagrams -- Chemical reactions -- Shape memory allo…
Intelligent Systems: Architectures and Perspectives -- Do Smart Adaptive Systems Exist? — Introduction -- Problem Definition — From Applications to Methods -- Problem Definition — From Applications to Methods -- Data Preparation and Preprocessing -- Data Preparation and Preprocessing -- From Methods To Applications -- Artificial Neural Networks -- Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learni…
Definition of thermodynamic terms -- Volume as a state function -- The first law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz free energy -- Thermal equilibrium -- Chemical reactions -- Geothermometry and geobarometry.Thermodynamics is an important tool to interpreting the conditions at which natural geomaterial equilibrate. It allows one to determine, fo…
Neural Networks: An Overview -- Modeling with Neural Networks: Principles and Model Design Methodology -- Modeling Metholodgy: Dimension Reduction and Resampling Methods -- Neural Identification of Controlled Dynamical Systems and Recurrent Networks -- Closed-Loop Control Learning -- Discrimination -- Self-Organizing Maps and Unsupervised Classification -- Neural Networks without Training for O…
From the contents Observers as Internal Models for Remote Tracking via Encoded Information -- Extended Luenberger Observer for Nonuniformly Observable Nonlinear Systems -- Approximate Observer Error Linearization by Dissipativity Methods -- On Invariant Observers -- Remarks on Moving Horizon State Estimation with Guaranteed Convergence -- Least Squares Smoothing of Nonlinear Systems -- State Es…
The Musical Transient-Modeling Software MTMS Developed for this Study -- Continuous and Discrete Mechanics -- Studies of the Guitar To Date -- The Discrete Guitar Model -- Bending, Damping and Coupling -- Results -- Summary and Outlook.This book performs a state-of-the-art finite-difference calculation of the complete geometry of the classical guitar as a time-stepping application. It provides …
An Introduction to Computational Intelligence -- Fuzzy Sets and Relations -- Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning -- Fuzzy Logic in Process Control -- Fuzzy Pattern Recognition -- Fuzzy Databases and Possibilistic Reasoning -- to Machine Learning Using Neural Nets -- Supervised Neural Learning Algorithms -- Unsupervised Neural Learning Algorithms -- Competitive Learning Using Neural Nets -- Ne…