author : Kunihiko Kaneko

Books

• Theory and Applications of Coupled Map Lattices. 1993
• Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond. 2000, with Ichiro Tsuda
• Life: an Introduction to Complex Systems Biology. 2006

Short works

• Computer Symbiosis -- emergence of symbiotic behavior through evolution. 1990. (In Emergent Computation )
• Soliton turbulence in one-dimensional cellular automata. 1990. (In Cellular Automata: theory and experiment )
• Evolution to the Edge of Chaos in an Imitation Game. 1994. (In Artificial Life III )
• A theory of differentiation with dynamic clustering. 1995. (In Advances in Artificial Life )
• Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution. 1995. (In Artificial Life: an Overview )
• Tile Automaton for evolution of metabolism. 1995. (In Advances in Artificial Life )
• Evolution of Communication and Strategies in an Iterated Three-Person Game. 1996. (In Artificial Life V )
• Igniting the Cycle of Creation - An Approach to Create Metabolism with Tile Automaton. 1996. (In Artificial Life V )
• Emergence of Differentiation Rules leading to Hierarchy and Diversity. 1997. (In Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life )
• Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern. 1998. (In Artificial Life VI )
• Dynamical Systems Game (The Lumberjacks' Dilemma Model). 1999. (In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL'99 )
• Complex Organization in Multicellularity as a Necessity in Evolution. 2000. (In Artificial Life VII )
• Evolution of Cooperation in Social Dilemma---Dynamical Systems Game Approach. 2000. (In Artificial Life VII )
• Evolution of Genetic Code through Isologous Diversification of Cellular States. 2000. (In Artificial Life VII )
• Sympatric Speciation from Interaction-induced Phenotype Differentiation. 2000. (In Artificial Life VII )
• Inaccessibility in Decision Procedures. 2001. (In Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC'2K )
• Dynamic Relationship between Diversity and Plasticity of Cell types in Multi-cellular State. 2003. (In Artificial Life VIII )

Books : reviews

Kunihiko Kaneko.
Theory and Applications of Coupled Map Lattices.
Wiley. 1993

The technique of the coupled map lattice (CML) is a rapidly developing field in nonlinear dynamics at present. This book gives a fully illustrative overview of current research in the field.

A CML is a dynamical system in which there is some interaction (‘coupled’) between continuous state elements, which evolve in discrete time (‘map’) and are distributed on a discrete space (‘lattice’). This book investigates both the theoretical aspects and applications of CMLs to spatially extended systems in nonlinear dynamical systems.

CMLs provide a novel approach to the study of spatiotemporal chaos, pattern formation, and nonlinear biological information processing. Applications extend to general turbulent phenomena found in fluid mechanics, plasma and solid state physics, optics, and chemical reactions. In addition, because CMLs are adaptive to semi-macroscopic conditions and are numerically efficient, they are useful tools for simulating pattern formations, nonlinear waves and biological information processing (e.g. neural nets).

The book will be of interest to theoreticians in the physical, earth and life sciences.

After the introduction and general survey (K. Kaneko), the book covers the following topics: Renormalization group, universality and scaling in dynamics of coupled map lattices (S. P, Kuznetsov); Mean-field approximations. and Perron–Frobenius equations for coupled map lattices (J. M. Houlrik and M. H. Jensen); Complex spatiotemporal dynamics of chain models for flow systems (V. S., Afraimovich and M. J. Rabinovich); Chemical waves and coupled map lattices (R. Kapral); Statistical mechanics of coupled map lattices (L. A. Bunimovich and Ya. G. Sinai)

Kunihiko Kaneko, Ichiro Tsuda.
Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond: a constructive approach with applicatons in life sciences.
Springer. 2000

The necessity to study complex systems has been recognized in several branches of science, in particular biological science. Based on a background of physics and nonlinear dynamics, the authors propose a constructive approach and dynamic many-to-many relationship for such a study. The relevance of chaos to complex systems is discussed as a concept to overcome the antitheses between determinism and nondeterminism, order and randomness, and reductionism and holism. By presenting an information-theoretical viewpoint of chaos, phenomena and concepts in the network of chaos elements, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with biological networks, in particular the brain, and also to illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.

Kunihiko Kaneko.
Life: an Introduction to Complex Systems Biology.
Springer. 2006

What is life? Has molecular biology given us a satisfactory answer to this question? And if not, why, and how to carry on from there? This book examines life not from the reductionist point of view, but rather asks the question: what are the universal properties of living systems and how can one construct from there a phenomenological theory of life that leads naturally to complex processes such as reproductive cellular systems, evolution and differentiation? The presentation has been deliberately kept fairly non-technical so as to address a broad spectrum of students and researchers from the natural sciences and informatics.