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Publication type: Monograph [Book]
Author: Rui A. P. Perdigão
Date: 2019
Title: Complex System Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46337/mdsc.5364
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Perdigão, R.A.P. (2019): Complex System Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.46337/mdsc.5364.
Keywords
Methodological Keywords: Complex Systems, Dynamical Systems, Information Theory, Mathematical Physics, Information Physics, Non-Ergodic, Chaos, Entropy, Emergence, Synergy, Coevolution.
Applied Keywords: Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Earth System Dynamics, Socio-Environmental Systems, Climate Change, Sustainability.
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Rui Perdigão’s doctoral course on Complex System Dynamics is headquartered and primarily delivered at the Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science.
Moreover, since 2019 it has also been available as a semester doctoral course introduced by Rui Perdigão at the University of Lisbon (offering 6 ECTS for students enrolled in partner programs), and since then at a growing number of partner institutions across Europe and North America. The course is specially tailored to a wide-spectrum interdisciplinary audience spanning across natural, social, technical and exact sciences.
The associated scientific and pedagogic materials emerge as a natural guide for graduate students, researchers and practitioners alike, matching the structure of the course as follows:
Take-home
- Acquisition of fundamental competences in complexity sciences, their relevance and implementation in the conceptualization, systematization, modeling and formal analysis of the complex dynamics underlying climate change;
- Learning fundamental principles that allow to formulate the dynamics of complex systems, including emergence of extreme phenomena, in an elegantly simple and effective way without loss of rigor nor generality;
- Deepening scientific research, development and communication at the interface between natural and social frontier sciences.
Program
- Fundamental notions on the dynamics of complex systems, principles and underlying mechanisms in dynamic systems theory and physical information;
- Methods of systematization of dynamic systems: simple conceptual structures representing complex natural, technical and social phenomena;
- Fundamentals of the dynamics of the Earth system and the emergence of regimes, critical transitions and extreme events in the context of complexity sciences;
- Coevolutionary models of climate change in a holistic perspective involving dynamics of the oceans, atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere and society;
- Dynamic methods of extraction and analysis of information related to the dynamics of complex systems, from empirical and computational records;
- Detection of patterns of spatial and temporal climatic variability from data of the dynamics of the Earth system and attribution to underlying mechanisms;
- Methods of evaluating uncertainty and predictability in complex system dynamics, for representative model optimization and decision support.