Synergetics

to Synergetics.- Mathematical and Physical Concepts for Cooperative Systems.- Stability Criteria in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.- Relaxation and Fluctuation of Macrovariables.- New Method in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Cooperative Systems.- Theory of Linear Non-Markoffian Processes.- Fluctuations near Phase Transitions in Restricted Geometries.- Instabilities and Phase-Transition-Like Phenomena in Physical Systems far from Thermal Equilibrium.- Phase-Transition-Like Phenomena in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics.- Dynamics of Current Instabilities.- Cooperative Phenomena in Data Processing.- Theory of Dissipative Structures.- Biochemical Kinetics and Population Dynamics.- A Gibbs Ensemble Approach to Biochemical Kinetics.- Models of Population Growth, Diffusion, Competition and Rearrangement.- Selforganization of Nucleic Acids and the Evolution of the Genetic Apparatus.- Computer Simulation of Helix-Coil Transition.- Biological Structures.- Mechanism of Pattern Recognition by the Visual System of Insects.- A Cooperative Model of Stereoscopic Depth Perception.- Cooperative Phenomena in a Homogeneous Cortical Tissue Model.- Cooperative Transitions in Biological Membranes.- A Model for Muscle Contraction.- Organisation and Long Range Selective Interaction in Biological and Other Pumped Systems.- Nonlinear Transport as a Possible Key to Physical Understanding in Biology.- General Structures.- Theory of Hierarchical Structures.- Metropolitan Models and Public Policy.- Fokker-Planck Equation Treatment of Interacting Social Groups.