Springer Complexity
Springer Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and
academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systems—cutting
across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics,
medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science.
Complex Systems are systems that comprise many interacting parts with the ability to
generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior the manifestations of which are the
spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Models of such
systems can be successfully mapped onto quite diverse “real-life” situations like the climate, the
coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems, biological cellular
networks, the dynamics of stock markets and of the internet, earthquake statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in social systems, to name
just some of the popular applications.
Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the
following main concepts and tools: self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos, graphs
and networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms and computational
intelligence.
The three major book publication platforms of the Springer Complexity program are the
monograph series “Understanding Complex Systems” focusing on the various applications of
complexity, the “Springer Series in Synergetics”, which is devoted to the quantitative theoretical and methodological foundations, and the “Springer Briefs in Complexity” which are
concise and topical working reports, case studies, surveys, essays and lecture notes of relevance to the field. In addition to the books in these two core series, the program also
incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to major reference works.
Indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, zbMATH, SCImago.
Series Editors
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dan Braha, New England Complex Systems Institute, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Péter Érdi, Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, USA; Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Karl J. Friston, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Hermann Haken, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Viktor Jirsa, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille,
France
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Kunihiko Kaneko, Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Scott Kelso, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Markus Kirkilionis, Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complex Systems, University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK
Jürgen Kurths, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Ronaldo Menezes, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK
Andrzej Nowak, Department of Psychology, Warsaw University, Warszawa, Poland
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
Linda Reichl, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Peter Schuster, Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Frank Schweitzer, System Design, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Didier Sornette, Entrepreneurial Risk, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Stefan Thurner, Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Springer Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and
academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systems—cutting
across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics,
medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science.
Complex Systems are systems that comprise many interacting parts with the ability to
generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior the manifestations of which are the
spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Models of such
systems can be successfully mapped onto quite diverse “real-life” situations like the climate, the
coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems, biological cellular
networks, the dynamics of stock markets and of the internet, earthquake statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in social systems, to name
just some of the popular applications.
Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the
following main concepts and tools: self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos, graphs
and networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms and computational
intelligence.
The three major book publication platforms of the Springer Complexity program are the
monograph series “Understanding Complex Systems” focusing on the various applications of
complexity, the “Springer Series in Synergetics”, which is devoted to the quantitative theoretical and methodological foundations, and the “Springer Briefs in Complexity” which are
concise and topical working reports, case studies, surveys, essays and lecture notes of relevance to the field. In addition to the books in these two core series, the program also
incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to major reference works.
Indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, zbMATH, SCImago.
Series Editors
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dan Braha, New England Complex Systems Institute, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Péter Érdi, Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, USA; Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Karl J. Friston, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Hermann Haken, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Viktor Jirsa, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille,
France
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Kunihiko Kaneko, Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Scott Kelso, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Markus Kirkilionis, Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complex Systems, University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK
Jürgen Kurths, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Ronaldo Menezes, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK
Andrzej Nowak, Department of Psychology, Warsaw University, Warszawa, Poland
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
Linda Reichl, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Peter Schuster, Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Frank Schweitzer, System Design, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Didier Sornette, Entrepreneurial Risk, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Stefan Thurner, Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria