Dynamics and Stochastic Processes Theory and Applications: Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Lisbon, Portugal October 24-29, 1988

by r. lima, L. Streit, R. Vilela Mendes (Editor)

Some remarks on classical, quantum and stochastic dynamical systems.- Neural Deterministic and stochastic dynamics.- Learning in neural networks.- Mathematical modelling on random graphs of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases with emphasis on the HIV infection.- Sustained chemical dissipative structures some recent developments.- Space-time dynamics in thermal convection in an annular geometry.- Invariant' measures in hydrodynamic systems with random perturbations.- Anomalous transport of energy in tokamaks and the beasts model.- White Noise and Stochastic Variational Calculus for Gaussian Random Fields.- Chaos in vibrotransportation.- Random perturbation and its application to simulated annealing.- Rattling vibrations in gearboxes.- Feedback control of resistive modes in tokamaks.- On a Cantor structure in a satellite scattering problem.- Controlling Chaos through parametric excitations.- Dynamical systems methods in accelerator The dynamic aperture problem.- Deterministic chaos versus random Finite correlation dimension for colored noises with power-law power spectra.- Fractional diffusion.- White noise analysis and quantum field theory.

295 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990