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This book examines nonlinear dynamics - chaos, fractals and stochasticities - in such diverse settings as celestial mechanics including impact dynamics, financial systems including inflation and biochemical systems, such as neural and hydro-dynamic systems.

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems describes chaos, fractal and stochasticities within celestial mechanics, financial systems and biochemical systems. Part I discusses methods and applications in celestial systems and new results in such areas as low energy impact dynamics, low-thrust planar trajectories to the moon and earth-to-halo transfers in the sun, earth and moon. Part II presents the dynamics of complex systems including bio-systems, neural systems, chemical systems and hydro-dynamical systems. Finally, Part III covers economic and financial systems including market uncertainty, inflation, economic activity and foreign competition and the role of nonlinear dynamics in each.

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Part I On the Mechanisms of Natural Transport in the Solar System.- A Method to Design Efficient Low-Energy, Low-Thrust Transfers to the Moon.- Low-Energy Earth-to-Halo Transfers in the Earth--Moon Scenario with Sun-Perturbation.- On the relation between the Bicircular model and the Coupled Circular Restricted Three-Body problem approximation.- Adaptive Remeshing Applied to Reconfiguration of Spacecraft Formations.- A cartographic study of the phase space of the elliptic restricted three body problem: Application to the Sun-Jupiter-Asteroid system.- Parameter identification of the Langmuir model for adsorption and desorption kinetic data.- Effects of Suspended Sediment on the Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layer.- A renormalization-group study of the Potts model with competing ternary and binary interactions.- The mechanical properties of CaX6 (X=B and C).- The System Design of an Autonomous Mobile Waste Sorter Robot.- Evidence of the Wave Phase Coherence for Freak Wave Events.- Quantum Mechanical Treatment of the Lamb Shift without Taken into Account the Electric Charge.- Determining the Climate Zones of Turkey by Center-Based Clustering Methods.- The determination of rainy clouds motion using optical flow.- Hydrodynamic modeling of port foster, deception island (Antarctica).- Part II Localized Activity States for Neuronal Field Equations of Feature Selectivity in a Stimulus Space with Toroidal Topology.- Clara M. Ionescu and J. Tenreiro Machado, Intrinsic fractal dynamics in the respiratory system by means of pressure-volume loops.- Part III Forecasting Project Costs by Using Fuzzy Logic.- Why You Should Consider Nature-Inspired Optimization Methods in Financial Mathematics.- Desirable role in a revenue-maximizing tariff model with uncertainty.- Can Term Structure of Interest Rate Predict Inflation and Real Economic Activity: Nonlinear Evidence from Turkey?.- Licensing in an international competition with differentiated goods.- Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Stock Market Indexes.

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