Dynamics, Games and Science II: DYNA 2008, in Honor of Maurício Peixoto and David Rand, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, September 8-12, 2008

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Network Control Analysis for Time-Dependent Dynamical States....Pages 1-24
Renormalization and Focal Decomposition....Pages 25-40
Micro-Foundations of the Social Change....Pages 41-54
Singularities, Walrasian Economies and Economic Crisis....Pages 55-77
Probabilistic Methods in Dynamical Analysis: Populations Growths Associated to Models Beta(p, q) with Allee Effect....Pages 79-95
Power Indices Applied to Portuguese Parliament....Pages 97-105
A Methodological Contribution in the Theory of the Firm Under Uncertainty....Pages 107-113
Explosion of Smoothness for Conjugacies Between Unimodal Maps....Pages 115-119
Multidimensional Rovella-Like Attractors....Pages 121-124
Robust Heteroclinic Behaviour, Synchronization, and Ratcheting of Coupled Oscillators....Pages 125-140
An Economical Model For Dumping by Dumping in a Cournot Model....Pages 141-153
Fractional Control of Dynamic Systems....Pages 155-159
A Dynamical Point of View of Quantum Information: Discrete Wigner Measures....Pages 161-185
Dynamics on Spectral Solutions of Forced Burgers Equation....Pages 187-190
Area-Preserving Diffeomorphisms from the C 1 Standpoint....Pages 191-222
A Theoretical, Multidisciplinary View of Catastrophic Regime Change....Pages 223-236
General Relativistic Elasticity: Statics and Dynamics of Spherically Symmetric Metrics....Pages 237-241
Post-Inflationary Scalar Field Phase Dynamics....Pages 243-246
An Application of the SIR Model to the Evolution of Epidemics in Portugal....Pages 247-250
Poissonian Tree Constructed from Independent Poisson Point Processes....Pages 251-255
Hamiltonian Systems on Polyhedra....Pages 257-274
Bankruptcy Boundaries Determined by Patents....Pages 275-300
Computation of Genus and Braid Index for Renormalizable Lorenz Links....Pages 301-315
Statistical Stability for Equilibrium States....Pages 317-321
Dynamic Games of Network Effects....Pages 323-342
Exit Times and Persistence of Solitons for a Stochastic Korteweg–de Vries Equation....Pages 343-347
Optimization Approach to a Simulation Algorithm of a Mixer-Settler System in the Transient State....Pages 349-359
Duality Theory, Representation Formulas and Uniqueness Results for Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton–Jacobi Equations....Pages 361-386
Microscopic Dynamics for the Porous Medium Equation....Pages 387-392
A Stochastic Model for Wolf’s Sunspot Number....Pages 393-401
On Topological Classification of Morse–Smale Diffeomorphisms....Pages 403-427
Isentropic Dynamics and Control in an Economic Model for Capital Accumulation....Pages 429-448
Hydrodynamic Limit of the Exclusion Process in Inhomogeneous Media....Pages 449-465
Application of Fractional Order Concepts in the Study of Electrical Potential....Pages 467-470
Economics of Bioenergy Crops for Electricity Generation: Implications for Land Use and Greenhouse Gases....Pages 471-501
An H-Theorem for Chemically Reacting Gases....Pages 503-506
Dynamics, Systems, Dynamical Systems and Interaction Graphs....Pages 507-541
The Dynamics of Scalar Fields in Cosmology....Pages 543-547
The Dynamics of the Nash Map for 2 By 2 Games....Pages 549-565
Resort Pricing and Bankruptcy....Pages 567-573
On the Hannay–Ozorio De Almeida Sum Formula....Pages 575-590
A Fourier Transform Method for Relaxation of Kinetic Equations....Pages 591-598
Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Finite Bernoulli Matching Model of Sequence Alignment....Pages 599-606
Fitness Function Evaluation Through Fractional Algorithms....Pages 607-610
An Exponential Observer for Systems on SE(3) with Implicit Outputs....Pages 611-633
Stability of Polydeuces Orbit....Pages 635-638
Peixoto Classification of 2-Dim Flows Revisited....Pages 639-645
Fractional Control of Legged Robots....Pages 647-650
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma with Single and Multi-Behaviors: A Multi-Agent Application....Pages 651-688
Euclidean Jordan Algebras and Strongly Regular Graphs....Pages 689-701
Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Differential Equations....Pages 703-733
Stochastic Saddle Paths and Economic Theory....Pages 735-752