Introduction

Eduard Zwierlein

1-4

Self-organization in evolution, immune systems, economics, neural nets, and brains

Hans J. Bremermann

5-34

On the evolution of open socio-economic systems

Friedrich Hinterberger

35-50

Can synergetics serve as a bridge between the natural and social sciences?

Hermann Haken

51-65

Modelling concepts of synergetics with application to transitions between totalitarian and liberal political ideologies

Wolfgang Weidlich

66-79

Self-organization, artificial intelligence and connectionism

Michael M. Richter

80-91

Speedup of self-organization through quantum mechanical parallelism

Michael Conrad

92-108

Living state for self-organization a plea

Ramesh Mishra Kumar

109-132

A model for stimulated and co-operative electron transfer in biomolecular systems

L. Pöhlmann, H. Tributsch

133-142

Self-organization, catastrophe theory and the problem of segmentation

P. T. Saunders, M. W. Ho

143-156

Self-organization, entropy and order

P. T. Landsberg

157-184

Self-organization, valuation and optimization

W. Ebeling

185-196

Symbolic dynamics and the description of complexity

Bai-lin Hao

197-211

Instabilities in nonlinear dynamics

paradigms for self-organization

R. K. Bullough

212-244

Uncertainty principle, coherence and structures

Ke-Hsueh Li

245-255

Intrinsic irreversibility of unstable dynamical system

Ioannis E. Antoniou, Shuichi Tasaki

256-269

Self-organization as a creative process philosophical aspects

Nalimov

270-279

Music and mind — a theory of aesthetic dynamics

Brian D. Josephson, Tethys Carpenter

280-287

The paradigm of self-organization and its philosophical foundation

Eduard Zwierlein

288-298