| Preface |
| Personae |
| Large Fluctuations |
| Nonlinear Dynamics of Large Fluctuations and How They Can Be Controlled / M. I. Dykman |
| Large Fluctuations in Globally Coupled Systems / A. Hamm |
| Experimental Studies of the Non-Adiabatic Escape Problem / M. Arrayas ; I. A. Khovanov ; D. G. Luchinsky ; R. Mannella ; P. V. E. McClintock ; M. Greenall ; H. Sabbagh |
| The Birth of a Cusp: The Unfolding of a 'Boundary Catastrophe' / R. S. Maier ; D. L. Stein |
| Controlling Brownian Particles with Light / B. Golding ; L. I. McCann |
| A Phase Transition in a System Driven by Coloured Noise / N. D. Stein |
| Noise Induced Escape from Different Types of Chaotic Attractor / V. S. Anishchenko |
| The Modified Optimal Path Method and Non-Adiabatic II-Order Transitions in Noisy Perturbed Dynamical Systems / A. V. Polovinkin ; A. I. Saichev |
| The Kramers Problem: Beyond Quasi-Stationarity / S. M. Soskin ; V. I. Sheka ; T. L. Linnik ; I. Kh. Kaufman |
| Neurons, Synchronization, Noise, and Chaos |
| Phase Locking and Noise in the Lighthouse Model of a Neural Net with Delay / H. Haken |
| Nonlinear Dynamics of a Pulse-Coupled Neural Oscillator Model of Orientation Tuning in the Visual Cortex / P. C. Bressloff ; N. W. Bressloff |
| Chaos in Integrate-and-Fire Dynamical Systems / S. Coombes |
| Synchronous Calcium Oscillations and Calcium Waves Induced by Spatiotemporal Noise in a Randomly Coupled Ensemble of Neurons / V. E. Bondarenko |
| Effects of Noise on the Subthreshold Dynamics of the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model / A. Di Garbo ; M. Barbi ; S. Chillemi |
| Langevin vs. Microscopic Noise in a Neuronal Network of Visual Perception / I. L. K. Merk ; M. Trahe ; J. Schnakenberg |
| Adapting Synapses in Pulse-Coupled Oscillators / M. P. James |
| A Comparison Between Abstract and Biophysical Neuron Models / J. Feng ; D. Brown |
| Common Framework for "Topographic" and "Elastic" Computations / V. Tereshko ; N. M. Allinson |
| Cardiovascular System |
| Monofractal and Multifractal Approaches to Complex Biomedical Signals / H. E. Stanley ; L. A. N. Amaral ; A. L. Goldberger ; S. Havlin ; P. Ch. Ivanov ; C.-K. Peng |
| Characteristic Frequencies of the Human Blood Distribution System / M. Bracic ; A. Stefanovska |
| Detection of Phase Synchronization from the Data: Application to Physiology / M. G. Rosenblum ; A. S. Pikovsky ; C. Schafer ; P. Tass ; J. Kurths |
| Synchronization of Heart Rate by Sound and Light Pulses / A. G. Balanov ; N. B. Janson ; N. B. Igosheva ; G. V. Bordyugov |
| Dynamics of Blood Pressure in Healthy Rats at Rest and After Stress / T. P. Romanova ; O. V. Glushkovskaja-Semjachkina ; T. G. Anishchenko |
| Bifurcation Diagrams of Frequency Dependence of Repolarization During Long QT Syndrome Using the Luo-Rudy Model of Cardiac Repolarization / E. J. Doedel ; R. L. Rasmusson |
| Noise and Chaos in Biology and Ecology |
| Complex Motion of Brownian Particles with Energy Supply / W. Ebeling ; U. Erdmann ; L. Schimansky-Geier ; F. Schweitzer |
| Stochastic Regulation of Gene Expression / J. Hasty ; J. Pradines ; M. Dolnik ; J. J. Collins |
| Pathological Tremors: Deterministic Chaos or Nonlinear Stochastic Oscillators? / J. Timmer ; S. Hau[s ligature]ler ; M. Lauk ; C. Lucking |
| Investigating Cardiorespiratory Interaction by Cross-Spectral Analysis of Event Series |
| Chaotic Synchronization in a System of Two Coupled [beta]-Cells / B. Lading ; E. Mosekilde ; S. Yanchuk ; Yu. Maistrenko |
| Periodicity versus Chaos in Certain Population Models / H. Thunberg |
| Chaotic Waves and Phase Synchronization in Spatially Extended Ecological System / B. Blasius ; L. Stone |
| Using Stochastic Dynamics to Model Multispecies Communities / G. Caldarelli ; B. Drossel ; P. Higgs ; A. McKane |
| Phase Multistability and Mutual Chaotic Synchronization / O. V. Sosnovtseva ; T. E. Vadivasova ; D. E. Postnov ; V. V. Astakhov |
| A New Dialogue with Nature / S. F. Timashev |
| Stability and Stochastic Bifurcation |
| The Effect of Binary Noise on a Hopf Bifurcation / D. J. Binks ; T. Mullin ; D. S. Broomhead ; M. Nicol |
| Stochastic Averaging on Graphs: Noisy Duffing-van der Pol Equation / N. S. Namachchivaya ; R. Sowers ; L. Vedula |
| A Unified Theory of Deterministic and Noise-Induced Transitions: Melnikov Processes and Their Application in Engineering, Physics and Neuroscience / E. Simiu |
| Decay Times of Unstable States Increased by the Noise / N. V. Agudov ; B. Spagnolo |
| State Selection at Points of Instability / H. Short ; M. Tarlie |
| Energy Propagation and Barrier Crossing |
| Arrays of Nonlinear Oscillators: Energy Localization, Energy Propagation, and Thermal Resonance / K. Lindenberg ; R. Reigada ; A. Sarmiento ; A. H. Romero ; J. M. Sancho |
| On the Resonant Activation and Inhibition of Activation in Fluctuating Barrier Problems / J. Iwaniszewski |
| Resonant Activation in a Tunnel Diode: An Experimental Study / R. N. Mantegna |
| Diffusion in a Periodically Changing Asymmetric Linear Potential: Ratchets and Stochastic Resonance / M. Gitterman ; V. Berdichevsky |
| Stochastic Modelling of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems / P. Garbaczewski |
| Transport Properties and Efficiency of Elastically Coupled Particles in Asymmetric Periodic Potentials / A. Igarashi ; S. Tsukamoto |
| Steady-State Currents in Stochastic Ratchets: Analytical Results / M. M. Klosek ; R. W. Cox |
| Fundamentals |
| What Can We Learn from Thermodynamics on Stochastic Dynamics? / G. Nicolis ; C. Nicolis |
| An Effective Stochastic Theory for Spatiotemporal Chaos / C. C. Chow |
| Parabolic Resonances in Near Integrable Hamiltonian Systems / A. Litvak-Hinenzon ; V. Rom-Kedar |
| Renormalization of Asymmetric Unimodal Maps / A. H. Osbaldestin ; B. D. Mestel |
| From the Langevin Equation to the Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation / R. Metzler ; J. Klafter |
| Essence of Direct-Interaction Approximation Application to a Quadratic Nonlinear Dynamical System / S. Kida ; S. Goto |
| Chaotic Synchronization Induced by Exponentially Correlated Parametric Noise / M. N. Lorenzo ; V. Perez-Munuzuri |
| The Long-Time Behaviour of Correlation Functions in Dynamical Systems / A. K. Evans |
| Stochastic Resonance |
| Experimental Investigation of Stochastic Resonance / S. Barbay ; G. Giacomelli ; F. Marin ; I. Rabbiosi ; V. Voignier |
| A Statistical Framework for the Description of Stochastic Resonance Phenomena / J. Rung ; J. W. C. Robinson |
| Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance / N. G. Stocks |
| Stochastic Resonance and Noise-Induced Synchronization / J. A. Freund ; A. B. Neiman |
| Chaotic Resonance: Hopping Rates, Spectra and Signal-to-Noise Ratios / A. Kovaleva |
| Optimal Detection of Noisy Subthreshold Signals / M. M. Alibegov |
| Chaos and Intermittency |
| A Criterion for the Onset of Chaos in Weakly Dissipative Periodically Driven Systems / A. N. Silchenko |
| Statistical Theory for the Coupling Sensitivity of Chaos / V. Ahlers ; R. Zillmer |
| Transition Rates for Stochastic Delay Differential Equations / S. Guillouzic ; I. L'Heureux ; Andre Longtin |
| Dynamical Analysis by Using Oriented Crossing Locations / C. Letellier ; O. Menard ; G. Gouesbet ; W. Wang ; I. Kiss ; J. Hudson |
| Nonlinear Features in the Dynamics of an Impact-Friction Oscillator / L. N. Virgin ; C. J. Begley |
| On Bifurcation Phenomena in Metal Cutting / J. Gradisek ; S. Siegert ; R. Friedrich ; I. Grabec |
| About Stationary Probability Measure of Nonhyperbolic Attractors / A. S. Kopeikin ; G. I. Strelkova |
| The Role of Noise in Forming the Dynamics of a Quasiperiodic System / N. A. Khovanova |
| Flow |
| Laminar and Turbulent Dissipation in Shear Flow with Suction / C. R. Doering ; E. A. Spiegel ; R. A. Worthing |
| Weak Ripple Turbulence Prevails / E. Henry ; P. Alstrm ; M. T. Levinsen |
| Chaotic and Mode-Locked Interactions between Flow-Induced Collapsible-Tube Oscillation and Pulsatile Upstream Forcing / C. D. Bertram ; J. She |
| Phase Intermittency in Jet Atomization Processes / J. Godelle |
| Deterministic vs Statistical Description of the Transition to Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow / O. Dauchot ; H. Chate |
| Time and Space |
| Random Walk in an Eddy / L. B. Kiss ; R. Vajtai ; P. M. Ajayan |
| Nonlinear Localization in a Disordered System / K. [O slash] Rasmussen ; D. Cai ; A. R. Bishop ; N. Gr[o slash]nbech-Jensen |
| Information Entropy and Parrondo's Discrete-Time Ratchet / G. P. Harmer ; D. Abbott ; P. G. Taylor ; C. E. M. Pearce ; J. M. R. Parrondo |
| The Complexity of Bone Architecture: A Tool to Differentiate Bone Diseases / P. I. Saparin ; W. Gowin ; D. Felsenberg |
| How to Make Nature Blush: On the Construction of a Fractal Temporal Interface / S. Vrobel |
| Self-Similarity in Nature |
| The Influence of Disorder on Oscillator Death in Smoothly Inhomogeneous Arrays of Oscillators / L. Rubchinsky ; M. Sushchik |
| Stochastic Optimization and Squids |
| Non-Adiabatic Phenomena in a Coupled SQUID Ring-Tank Circuit System in the Strongly Hysteretic Regime / H. Prance ; R. Whiteman ; R. J. Prance ; T. D. Clark ; J. F. Ralph ; V. Schollmann ; M. Everitt ; S. Al-Khawaja |
| Noise-Mediated Cooperative Behavior and Signal Detection in dc SQUIDS / M. E. Inchiosa ; A. R. Bulsara |
| Stochastically Optimised Feedback for Imaging Arrays / M. Glover ; R. Ballingall ; D. Lees |
| Information-Theoretic Characterization of System Performance for a Nonlinear Magneto-Resistive Sensor / K. O. F. Stranne ; D. E. Asraf ; P. Lindqvist ; P. Sigray |
| Signal Processing |
| Extracting Dynamics from Return Times / A. N. Pavlov |
| Estimating Parameters in Differential Equations with Application to Laser Data / W. Horbelt ; M. Bunner ; R. Meucci ; M. Ciofini |
| Dynamical Evolution of Sonar Signal Propagation / R. A. Katz ; A. H. Quazi |
| Some Results Applying Flicker-Noise Spectroscopy on Climate Variables / A. Casanovas ; V. Gomez |
| On the Limits of Correlation Sums when Applied to Climate Variables |
| Filtering of Speech Signals by Over-Embedding / L. Matassini ; R. Hegger ; H. Kantz |
| State Space Parsimonious Reconstruction of Attractor Produced by an Electronic Oscillator / L. A. Aguirre ; U. S. Freitas ; L. Le Sceller ; J. Maquet |
| Bifurcations in Nonstationarity Noise Dynamic Systems: The Basins of Attraction and the Problems of Predictability of Final States / O. Ya. Butkovskii ; Yu. A. Kravtsov ; I. A. Rychka ; E. D. Surovyatkina |
| Detecting Deterministic Dynamics in Stochastic Systems / G. J. Ortega ; E. Louis |
| Conditional Entropy of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems / O. S. Gohrs ; J. Holzfuss |
| Author Index |
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