edited by Miroslav M Novak (Kingston University, UK)

The dynamics of complex systems can clarify the creation of structures in Nature. This creation is driven by the collective interaction of constitutive elements of the system. Such interactions are frequently nonlinear and are directly responsible for the lack of prediction in the evolution process. The self-organization accompanying these processes occurs all around us and is constantly being rediscovered, under the guise of a new jargon, in apparently unrelated disciplines.

This volume offers unique perspectives on aspects of fractals and complexity and, through the examination of complementary techniques, provides a unifying thread in this multidisciplinary endeavor. Do nonlinear interactions play a role in the complexity management of socio-econo-political systems? Is it possible to extract the global properties of genetic regulatory networks without knowing the details of individual genes? What can one learn by transplanting the self-organization effects known in laser processes to the study of emotions? What can the change in the level of complexity tell us about the physiological state of the organism? The reader will enjoy finding the answers to these questions and many more in this book.

• Structure of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Evidence for Scale Free Networks (L S Liebovitch et al.)
• Modelling Fractal Dynamics (B J West)
• Fractional Relaxation of Distributed Order (R Gorenflo & F Mainardi)
• Fractional Time: Dishomogeneous Poisson Processes vs. Homogeneous Non-Poisson Processes (P Allegrini et al.)
• Markov Memory in Multifractal Natural Processes (N Papasimakis & F Pallikari)
• Description of Complex Systems in Terms of Self-Organization Processes of Prime Integer Relations (V Korotkikh & G Korotkikh)
• Dynamical Decomposition of Multifractal Time Series as Fractal Evolution and Long-Term Cycles: Applications to Foreign Currency Exchange Market (A Turiel & C Perez-Vicente)
• Fractal Sets from Noninvertible Maps (Ch Mira)
• A Generative Construction and Visualization of 3D Fractal Measures (T Martyn)
• Complexity in Nature and Society: Complexity Management in the Age of Globalization (K Mainzer)
• Fractals, Complexity and Chaos in Supply Chain Networks (M Pearson)
• The Effects of Different Competition Rules on the Power-Law Exponent of High Income Distribution (K Yamamoto et al.)
• Synergetics on Its Way to the Life Sciences (H Haken)
• Complexity, Fractals, Nature and Industrial Design: Some Connections (N Sala)
• Modelling Pattern Formation Upon Laser-Induced Etching (A Mora et al.)
• Fractal Properties of Some Machined Surfaces (T R Thomas & B-G Rosén)
• Fractals, Morphological Spectrum and Complexity of Interfacial Patterns in Non-Equilibrium Solidification (P K Galenko & D M Herlach)
• Competition of Doublon Structure in the Phase-Field Model (S Tokunaga & H Sakaguchi)
• Study of Thermal Field in Composite Materials (P Stefkova et al.)
• Simulation of Geochemical Banding in Acidization-Precipitation Experiments In Situ (M Msharrafieh et al.)
• Bulk Mediated Surface Diffusion: Non Markovian and Biased Behavior (J A Revelli et al)
• Multifractal Formalism for Remote Sensing: A Contribution to the Description and the Understanding of Meteorological Phenomena in Satellite Images (J Grazzini et al.)
• The Distance Ratio Fractal Image (X-Z Zhang et al.)
• Iterated Function Systems in Mixed Euclidean and p-Adic Spaces (B Sing)
• Multifractality of the Multiplicative Autogressive Point Processes (B Kaulakys et al.)
• Analysis of Geographical Distribution Patterns in Plants Using Fractals (A Bari et al.)
• Hierarchy of Cellular Automata in Relation to Control of Chaos or Anticontrol (M Markus et al.)
• Fractal Analysis of the Images Using Wavelet Transformation (P Jerabkova et al.)
• Clustering Phenomena in the Time Distribution of Lightning (L Telesca et al.)
• A Cornucopia of Connections: Finding Four Familiar Fractals in the Tower of Hanoi (D R Camp)
• Monitoring the Depth of Anaesthesia Using Fractal Complexity Method (W Klonowski et al.)
• The Complex Couplings and Gompertzian Dynamics (P Waliszewski & J Konarski)
• Genome as a Fractal 2D Walk (A Loskutov)
• Generalization of the DLA-Process with Different Inmiscible Components by Time-Scale Roughening (A Loskutov)