PROGRESS IN CHAOS ANDCOMPLEXITY RESEARCH -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1DETECTION OF TRANSIENT SYNCHRONIZATIONIN MULTIVARIATE BRAIN SIGNALS APPLICATIONTO EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1. Clustering of Linear Data -- 2.2. Clustering of Circular Data -- 2.3. Statistical Analysis -- 2.4. Data Acquisition -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Application to Simulated Linear Data -- 3.2. Application to Simulated Circular Data -- 3.3. Application to Experimental Linear Data -- 3.4. Application to Empirical Circular Data -- 3.5. Comparison to an Existing Method -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 2ABRIEF NOTE ON RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATIONANALYSIS OF BIPOLAR DISORDER PERFORMED BYUSING A VAN DER POL OSCILLATOR MODEL -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE BIPOLAR DISORDER -- 3. QUALITATIVE MODELING OF BIPOLAR DISORDER BY THEVAN DER POL MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION -- 4. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE OBTAINED TIME SERIES DATA -- Gottschalk's Analysis of Correlation Dimension of Experimental Time Series -- Analysis of Correlation Dimension of Van Der Pol Model Generated TimeSeries -- Lyapunov Exponents Calculation -- Recurrence Quantification Analysis -- Coarse Graining Spectral Analysis -- 5. DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF SHORTEST PATHSPROBLEM ON WEIGHTED INTERVALAND CIRCULAR ARC GRAPHS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TERMINOLOGY -- Definition 1 -- 3. PRELIMINARY ALGORITHM -- Definition 2 -- Definition 3 -- Lemma 1 -- Definition 4 -- Lemma 2 -- Lemma 3 -- Lemma 4 -- 4. A LINEAR TIME IMPLEMENTATION -- Definition 5 -- Example: Interval Operations -- Algorithm 1: Maxright -- Algorithm 2: Next -- 5. FURTHER EXTENSIONS -- 5.1. Zero- Weight Intervals -- 5.2. Implementation Note -- 5.3. Circular -Arcs -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 4DETECTING LOW DIMENSIONAL CHAOSIN SMALL NOISY SAMPLE SETS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 2.METHODOLOGY -- 2.1. Reconstruction of Dynamics by the Method of Time Delays -- 2.2. A Measure of Determinism -- 3. NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS -- 3.1. Applying Traditional Methods to Small Sample Set -- 3.2. A Method Adapted to Small Data Set -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5ASENSITIVITY STUDY ON THE HYDRODYNAMICS OFTHE VERBANO LAKE BY MEANS OF A CFD TOOL:THE 3D EFFECTS OF AFFLUENTS,EFFLUENT AND WIND -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6ALAN TURING MEETS THE SPHINX:SOME OLD AND NEW RIDDLES1 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MYTH OF OEDIPUS -- NEW TWISTS TO AN OLD MYTH -- RIDDLE AS PARADOX -- METAPHORICAL THINKING AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT -- SELF-REFERENCE AND UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINES -- THE RIDDLE AS MIRROR -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7COMPARISON OF EMPIRICAL MODEDECOMPOSITION AND WAVELET APPROACH FORTHE ANALYSIS OF TIME SCALE SYNCHRONIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.MODELS -- 3. EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION -- 4. TIME SCALE SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENTCHAOTIC SYSTEMS VIA EMDMETHOD:FROM PHASE TO LAG SYNCHRONIZATION -- 5.MEASURE OF SYNCHRONIZATION FOR EMD -- 6.WAVELET APPROACH (WA) -- 7.MEASURE OF SYNCHRONIZATION FOR WA -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS,VARIABILITY ANALYSIS, AND FRACTAL DIMENSIONESTIMATION IN 99MTC-HDPNUCLEARSCINTIGRAPHY OF MAXILLARY BONES INSUBJECTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE METHODOLOGY -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- 4. RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9FORECASTING OF HYPERCHAOTIC RÖSSLERSYSTEM STATE VARIABLES USINGONE OBSERVABLE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CASE STUDY: THE RÖSSLER HYPERCHAOTIC SYSTEM -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- 3.1. The Neural Model -- 3.2. Sensitivity Analysis -- 4. CONCLUSION.

REFERENCES -- Chapter 10FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN COMPUTER GRAPHICSAND IN VIRTUAL REALITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FRACTAL OBJECTS -- 2.1. The Self-Similarity -- 2.2. The Iterated Function System -- 2.3. L-Systems -- 3. FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- 4. FRACTAL GEOMETRY FOR MODELLING VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11BUYER DECISIONS IN THE US HOUSING INDUSTRY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BUYERS' PSYCHOLOGICAL BIASES AND EFFECTS IN THEUS HOUSING MARKETS -- Buyer's Propensity-to-Buy -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 12CLIMATIC MEMORY OF 5 ITALIAN DEEP LAKES:SECULAR VARIATION -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13ETHOS IN EVERYDAY ACTIONNOTES FOR A MINDSCAPE OF BIOETHICS -- 1. CONTROL -- 2. DISCIPLINE -- 3. EVOLUTION -- 4. LOCAL RULES -- 5. LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 7. TIMING ACTIONS -- 8. NEURODYNAMICS OF TIME -- 9. ETHOS IN ACTION -- REFERENCE LIST -- INDEX.