Advances in Dynamics, Patterns, Cognition

Part I. Chaos and Dynamics

1. Weak Transient Chaos
Valentin S. Afraimovich, Alexander B. Neiman

2. Lorenz Type Attractor in Electronic Parametric Generator and Its Transformation Outside the Parametric Resonance
Sergey P. Kuznetsov

3. Time Rescaling of Lyapunov Exponents
Yakov Pesin, Agnieszka Zelerowicz, Yun Zhao

4. Unraveling the Chaos-Land and Its Organization in the Rabinovich System
Krishna Pusuluri, Arkady Pikovsky, Andrey Shilnikov

5. Anomalous Transport in Steady Plane Viscous Flows: Simple Models
Michael A. Zaks, Alexander Nepomnyashchy

Part II. Synchronization and Networks

6. Coherence–Incoherence Transition and Properties of Different Types of Chimeras in a Network of Nonlocally Coupled Chaotic Maps
Vadim S. Anishchenko, Tatiana E. Vadivasova, Galina I. Strelkova

7. Regular and Chaotic Transition to Synchrony in a Star Configuration of Phase Oscillators
Vladimir N. Belykh, Maxim I. Bolotov, Grigory V. Osipov

8. Lotka–Volterra Like Dynamics in Phase Oscillator Networks
Christian Bick

9. Intrinsic Stability, Time Delays and Transformations of Dynamical Networks
Leonid Bunimovich, Benjamin Webb

10. Discovering, Constructing, and Analyzing Synchronous Clusters of Oscillators in a Complex Network Using Symmetries
Louis M. Pecora, Francesco Sorrentino, Aaron M. Hagerstrom, Thomas E. Murphy, Rajarshi Roy

11. When Repulsive Inhibition Promotes Synchrony of Bursting Neurons: Help from the Enemy
Reimbay Reimbayev, Kun Zhao, Igor Belykh

Part III. Brain

12. The Variational Principles of Cognition
Karl Friston

13. Olfactory Computation in Insects
M. Komarov, M. Stopfer, M. Bazhenov

14. Respiratory Neural Network: Activity and Connectivity
Laurence Mangin, Maurice Courbage

15. Dynamics of Odor-Evoked Activity Patterns in the Olfactory System
Thomas Nowotny, Paul Szyszka

16. Dynamics of Intermittent Synchronization of Neural Activity
Leonid L. Rubchinsky, Choongseok Park, Sungwoo Ahn

Part IV. Waves

17. Vortices Termination in the Cardiac Muscle
Valentin I. Krinsky, Vadim N. Biktashev, Niels F. Otani, Stefan Luther

18. KDV Soliton Gas: Interactions and Turbulence
Efim Pelinovsky, Ekaterina Shurgalina

19. Multi-Lump Structures in the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili Equation
Yury Stepanyants

Keywords: Engineering, Complexity, Pattern Recognition, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Complex Systems