An Introduction to Sequential Dynamical Systems (Universitext)

An Introduction to Sequential Dynamical Systems (Universitext)

by HenningMortveit (Author), Christian Reidys (Author)

Synopsis

This introductory text to the class of Sequential Dynamical Systems (SDS) is the first textbook on this timely subject. Driven by numerous examples and thought-provoking problems throughout, the presentation offers good foundational material on finite discrete dynamical systems, which then leads systematically to an introduction of SDS. From a broad range of topics on structure theory - equivalence, fixed points, invertibility and other phase space properties - thereafter SDS relations to graph theory, classical dynamical systems as well as SDS applications in computer science are explored. This is a versatile interdisciplinary textbook.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
Publisher: Springer
Published: 16 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 0387306544
ISBN 13: 9780387306544

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By a sequential dynamical system (SDS), Mortveit (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.) and Reidys (Nankai Univ., China) mean a certain type of mathematical model. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. (D. V. Feldman, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (10), June, 2008)

A comprehensive introduction to sequential dynamical systems (SDS), i.e. a class of dynamical systems defined over graphs where the dynamics arise through functional composition of local dynamics. ... The book will be useful to graduate students and researches in discrete mathematics, dynamical systems, theoretical computer science, and systems engineering ... . (Georgy Osipenko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1135 (13), 2008)