Theoretical Approaches to Complex Systems

Existence Criteria for Bifurcations as Stability Criteria for Critical Nonlinear Control Systems.- Asymptotic System Analysis and Goal Functions.- Strange Attractors in 3-Variable Reaction Systems.- Structures of Excitation and Inhibition.- A new Approach to Synaptic Interactions.- Figure-Ground Discrimination by the Visual System of the Fly.- Evolution of the Adaptive Landscape.- Cell Assemblies in the Cerebral Cortex.- Excitatory and Inhibitory Processes Giving Rise to the Delayed Response in the Retinal Ganglion Cell of the Frog.- On Constrained Transinformation Functions.- Self-Diagnosis of Interactive Systems.