Selforganization by Nonlinear Irreversible Processes

I Basic Concepts.- Thermodynamic Aspects of Selforganization.- Entropy in Time Averaging..- Nucleation Theory and Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transitions in Finite System.- Dynamic Chaos in Ensembles of Structures and Spatial Development of Turbulence in Unbounded Systems.- II Stochastic and Statistic Theory.- Nonlinear Chemical Reactions in Diluted Solutions..- Stochastic Thermodynamics.- Stochastic Measures as Critical Quantities in Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions.- On the Kinetics of Nucleation in Isochoric Gases.- On the Properties of the Nonequilibrium Potential Near Bifurcation Points..- Nonlinear Fluctuation-Dissipation Models of Charge Transfer Nonequilibrium Electrical Noise and l/f-Noise..- Application of Path Integrals to Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations..- The Method of Green's Functions in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics..- Transport Phenomena in Many-Particle Systems and the Quantum Statistical Approach to Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.- III Dissipative Structures.- Dynamics of Interfaces in Random Media.- Autosolitons in Active Systems with Diffusion.- Repressing of Chemical Waves by Photochemical Inhibitor Releasing.- Dynamic Patterns in Interacting Chemical Cells and Effects of External Periodic Forcing.- Pattern in Marangoni-Instability Varied by Shear Stress Between Interface and Bulk.- Ostwald Ripening in Viscoelastic Media.- Thermodynamic Parameters and Structural Criteria for Phase Transformations in Amorphous Covalent Bound Materials.- IV Evolution Processes.- Turing Structures in Cytokinesis, Mitosis and Early Embryogenesis.- Qualitative Properties of Chains as Models of Growth and Binary Coding.- A Study Program of Chaotic Dynamics Applied to Information Processing.- The Evolutionary Triad.- V Chaotic Processes.- Fully Developed Chaos in One-Dimensional Discrete Processes.- Auto-Oscillatory Regimes in the Chain of Coupled Generators.- Universal Scaling Properties of Nonlinear Dissipative Systems.- New Aspects of Instabilities and Chaos in Laser Systems.- Complexity of Patterns Generated by One-Dimensional Cellular Automata.- Index of Contributors.