Table of Contents

Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems: An Overview.- 1: Global Systems.- The Statistical Theory of Global Population Growth.- Maximum Resiliency as a Determinant of Food Web Behavior.- Thermodynamic Approach to the Problem of Economic Equilibrium.- 2: Biological Systems.- Programmed Death Phenomena at Various Levels of Development of the Living Systems.- Development of Motor Control in Vertebrates.- Dislocations in the Repetitive Unit Patterns of Biological Systems.- The Description of Growth of Plant Organs: A Continuous Approach Based on the Growth Tensor.- Using Deterministic Chaos Theory for the Analysis of Sleep EEG.- 3: Emergence.- How Does Complexity Develop?.- Adaptive Evolution of Complex Systems Under Uncertain Environmental Constraints: A Viability Approach.- Archetypal Dynamics: An Approach to the Study of Emergence.- 4: Modelling.- Sociability, Diversity and Compatibility in Developing Systems: EVS Approach.- Tetrahymena and Ants- Simple Models of Complex Systems.- Embryogenesis as a Model of a Developing System.- 5: Presentations for Discussion.- Clinical Research Histomarkers for Objectively Estimating Premorbid Vagal Tone Chronology in Gulf War Veteran’s Illnesses and in Acute Stress Reaction.- Limits of Developing a National System of Agricultural Extension.- An Accumulation Model for the Formation of Mini Black Holes.

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