The Many Facets of Complexity Science

Chapter 1. Maurice Courbage: The Directional Entropy for Spatially Extended Dynamical Systems.- Chapter 2. Olivier Bui, Xavier Leoncini, Detecting Regularity with Complexity Functions.- Chapter 3. Raul Rechtman, Local Complexity Functions of the Ehrenfest's wind-tree model.- Chapter 4. Bastien Fernandez, Selective Chaos of Travelling Waves in Feedforward Chains of Bistable Maps.- Chapter 5. Yeyin Xu, Albert C.J. Luo, On Periodic Motions in a van der Pol Oscillator Chapter 6. Jianzhe Huang, Fuhong Min , Hidden periodic motions for brushless motor with unsteady torque excitation.- Chapter 7. Stefano Boccaletti, H. Bi, T. Qui, I. Bonamassa, Shuguang Guan, Chunking Rhythmic Synchronization: Bellerophon States and Quantized Clusters of Globally Coupled Phase Oscillators.- Chapter 8. Shasha Zheng, Xilin Fu, Chatter Dynamics and Stability of the Impulsive van der Pol Equation.- Chapter 9. Xilin Fu, Yanyan Zhang, Complex Motions in an Inclined Impact Pair With a Periodic Excitation.- Chapter 10. Dmitry V. Kovalevsky, Igor L. Bashmachnikov: Nonlinear Dynamics of Deep Open-Ocean Convection: An Analytical Approach.- Chapter 11.  Messoud  Efendiev, Vitali  Vougalter: On the Necessary Conditions for Preserving the Nonnegative Cone: Mixed Diffusion.- Chapter 12. Dimitri Volchenkov Veniamin Smirnov: Multi-scale Analysis of Urban Spatial Structures acquired from OpenStreetMap.

Dr. Dimitri Volchenkov obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in the Saint Petersburg State University(Russia) and habilitated in the CNRS Centre de Physique Theorique (Marseille, France). He is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the Texas Tech University (USA) and Professor of Risk Assessment and Data Science at the Sichuan University of Science and Engineering (China). His research interests are the science of complexity and interdisciplinary physics ranging from the stochastic nonlinear dynamics, to plasma turbulence, to urban spatial networks, their impact on poverty and environments, analysis of complex networks, data analysis of economic, inequality and politics data, big data analytics, survival analysis and modelling of evolutionary biology and ecology.