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List of Glossary Terms A Actions 6709 Ab initio approach 689 Activation function 1813 Activator 1352 Abduction 201 Active fault 2497 Abelian group 8028 Active gel 1739 Abrupt climate change 2 Active membranes 5524 ABS 1565 Activity, sensitivity 600 Absentee owners 2284 Activity-based approach 9536 Absolute error 5161 Actors 5999 Absolute temperature 2859 Actuator 9749 Absolute time 9831 Actuators 1475 Absolutely continuous curves 5440 Acute hospitals 4562 Absorbing state 3360, 8380 Adaptation 113 Abstract game 1518 Adaptive behaviors 8364 Abstract game of network formation with respect to Adaptive planning framework 8439 irreflexive dominance 6024 Adaptive system 4869 Abstract game of network formation with respect to Adaptive tension 8364 path dominance 6024 Additive cellular automata 64 Ac 1307 Additively separable preferences 9655 AC Electroosmosis or induced charge Adiabatic approximation 4194 electroosmosis (ICEO) 5573 Adiabatic decoupling 6689 Acceleration mechanism 21 Adiabatic perturbation theory 6689 Accessible bonds or sites 6538 Adiabatic switching 5859 Accessible hull 6521 Adjacency matrix 4820, 5266, 8815 Accretion disk 381 Adjacency matrix A 6048 Accretionary wedge (prism) 10047 Adjacent 8232, 8346 Accuracy 271, 1826, 5206 Adjoint conjugate operator 4317 Accuracy (rate) 1982 ADMET 2196 ACF 4114 Administrative leadership 8364 Achievable mate 9656 Adomian decomposition method 5161 Action angle variables 2261 Adomian decomposition method, Homotopy Action potential 6099 analysis method, Homotopy perturbation Action profile 8649 method and Variational perturbation method Action set 8649 5144 Action type 7651 Adomian method 81 Action-angle variables 5064 Adomian polynomials 5161 10100 List of Glossary Terms Adopters 1956 Algorithmic self-assembly of DNA tiles 5631 Adoption 8306 Algorithmic trading 9565 Adsorption 1307 Allele 9106 Adverse selection (hidden information) 6977 Allometric laws 3779 Affiliation network 8291 Allowable set of partners 9654 Affine CA 2981 Almost conjugacy 8889 Affinity 4776 Almost equicontinuous CA 2232, 9246 Age of a cluster or fuzzy rule 3244 Almost every, essentially 3083 Agency trade 1565 Almost everywhere 4983 Agent 131, 148, 184, 5286, 7533, 8364, 8405 Almost everywhere (abbreviated a. e.) 3040 Agent architecture 184 Almost everywhere (a.e.) 2883 Agent based models 8306 Alphabet of a cellular automaton 63 Agent (or software agent) 8375 ˛-Helix 9750 Agent-based computational economics ˛-Level set and support 4047 (ACE) 201 Alternating independent-2-paths 8319 Agent-based computational models 8265 Alternating k-stars 8319 Agent-based model 131 Alternating k-triangles 8319 Agent-based modeling 5286 Alternative splicing 4161 Agent-based modeling (ABM) 113 AM1 7931 Agent-based models 1041 Amoeboid motility 1738 Agent-based models (ABM) 201 Amorphous computer 257 Agent-based simulation 92, 160 Amygdala 1109 Agents 201, 848 Analog 9127 Agglomerative (hierarchical) clustering algorithm Analog circuit 9706 2348 Analytical method for solving an equation 5091 Aggregate models 5377 Analytical theories of turbulence 3642 Aggregate (“sufficient unit”) equation modeling Ancilla qubits 7325 4609 Andesite 9763 Aggregation 1982, 8364 Anisotropic elements 1719 Aggregation mechanisms 8364 Anisotropy 6565 Aggregation operators 224 Annealed law 7520 Aging 4210, 7520, 7583 Annotations 131 Agmon metric 6747 Anomalous diffusion 310, 3878, 5218 Agree-and-pursue algorithm 7713 Anomalous resistivity 8521 Aharonov Bohm effect 8597 Ant colony optimization 2113, 8869 Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect 7290 Ant colony optimization (ACO) 113 AI 7931 Anthropogenic climate change 3 Air traffic flow 234 Anthropogenic emissions 1071 AKNS method 4960 Anthropomorphic 4643 Alexander–Orbach conjecture 310 Antibody 2113, 4776 Alfvén speed 8010 Antigen 2113, 4776 Alfvén wave 8521 Antigen presenting cells (APC) 4776 Algebra 8292 AO 7931 Algebraic models 8265 Aperiodic tile set 9159 Algorithm 7361 Apparent exponent 6990 Algorithmic complexity 5206 Apparent stress 2581 Algorithmic complexity of object x 243 Applicability domain 7071 List of Glossary Terms 10101 Approximate controllability 4804 Atmospheric boundary layer 8140 Approximation 7787 Atomic force microscope (AFM) 689 Approximation space 7787 Atomic force microscopy (AFM) 7026 Aqueous fluid 2676 Atomic units, a. u. 8575 AR 4643 Atomistic simulation 5746 Arbitrage 3435 ATP 3598, 9749 Arbitrage pricing theory (APT) 3475 Attendance 5588 Arbo viruses 1095 Attenuation factor Q1 7914 Arbo viruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes Attenuation relation (ground-motion prediction 1095 equation) 4435 Arc 8232 Attraction basin 2232 Archimedean lattices 6579 Attractor 381, 2232, 2903, 3828, 4723, 8040, 8183, ARCH(q) 3456 8420, 8927, 9224, 9246 AR(k) 3456 Attractors 600 ARMA 4114, 5206 Attribute 1826, 1983, 7787, 8232 Arrival time 2449 Attribute (also feature or variable) 5317 Arrow 8346 Attribute node 1826 Arrow’s impossibility theorem 9932 Attributed-based data model (ABDM) 4305 Arterial 9470 Attributes 131 Artificial chemistry 113 Atypical graph 6013 Artificial financial markets 3374 Aubry set 4541 Artificial immune systems 2113 Auroral electrojet index (AE) 8521 Artificial intelligence (AI) 4869 Auroral zone 8521 Artificial life 8050 Auto-catalysis 4920 Artificial life (ALife) 113 Autocatalytic set 113, 326 Artificial neural network 1813, 3475 Automata 4098 Artificial neural network (ANN) 113 Automated guided vehicle (AGV) 8438 Artificial neuron 1813, 2139 Automated planning 5188 Artisan owners 2284 Automaton 9411 Ascendancy 2697 Automorphism 2934, 8889 Aseismic 1689 Autonomous 113 Ask price 5392 Autonomous information system 1533 Aspects 131 Autonomous robot 5783 Assignment 9470 Autonomous system (AS) 4930 Assortative mixing and disassortative mixing Autonomy 184, 3682, 4643, 6066, 7533 2531 Autoparametric resonance 2323 Assortativity coefficient 6049 Autopoiesis 8040 Astronomical unit (AU) 8521 Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity Asymmetric information 6977 (ARCH) 3475 Asymptotic density 4497 Autoregressive equation 9900 Asymptotic negligibility 5360 Autoregressive model 442 Asymptotic series 6748 Avalanche 8028 Asymptotic shape 4497 Avalanche photodiode (APD) 7249 Asynchronous 848 Avalanches 644 Asynchronous circuit 5859 Average bonds per object 1444 AT property of an automorphism 8555 Average class accuracy 1982 Atmosphere 1 Average distance 8910 10102 List of Glossary Terms Average partial effect 2770 Bayesian–Nash equilibrium 5510 Averaging 8588 BB84 7265 Averaging algorithms 7713 Beach profile 9618 Avida 113 Beam splitter 7249 AWE 1475 Behavior 344, 5999, 6066 Axisymmetric (concentric) KdV equation 9967 Behavior mode 8948 Axon 3334 Behavior strategy 5177, 8125 Behavioral finance 4972 B Behavioral relations 2284 Behavioral strategy 7616 B cell 4776 Behavioral type 8125 B3LYP 7931 Behavior-based control 3682 B92 7265 BEKK 4114 Babbage engine 5859 Belief learning 5177 Babbling equilibrium 8125 Bell inequality 7250 Backbone 1395, 6538 Bell states 7250 Back-propagation 4869 Bell’s inequality 1012 Bag 4340 Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction 7548 Bagging 3475 Benchmarks 4643 Balance equations 4378 Benjamin–Feir instability of water waves 9967 Balance theories 8265 BEP 1307 Balanced multiwavelet 5841 Bernoulli measure 2981 Ballistic transport 7401 Bernoulli shift 2918, 4983 Banach fixed point theorem 6611 Bernoulli’s equation 9967 Band structure 5746, 7401 Berry phase 4194 Bandwidth 9470 Besicovitch pseudometrics 2232 Baroclinic fluid 6206 Bessel process 8708 Barotropic fluid 6206 ˇ-Sheet 9750 Barrier options 5404 Bethe lattice 608 Basal ganglia 1109 BGK models 866 Basalt 9763 BGP (border gateway protocol) 4930 “Baseline” monitoring data 9862 Bibliome 5535 Basic equation of fluid dynamics 3642 Bid price 5392 Basic notation 5926 Bid-ask spread 5392, 5404 Basic reproduction rate 4659 Bi-directional QKD, or “Plug & play” QKD 7265 Basin of attraction 2903, 3828 Bifurcation 381, 936, 1041, 2324, 4515, 5299, Basins of attraction 64 6195, 6329, 6697 Basis point 3456 Billiard ball model 7696 Bayes’ theorem; prior, likelihood and posterior Binarization 1983 distributions 456 Binary 8690 Bayesian analysis 7853 Binary forecast 2438 Bayesian classifier 2159 Binary neighborhood system (binary granular Bayesian equilibrium 427 model; binary GrC model) 4339 Bayesian game 426, 1587 Binary relation 8346 Bayesian learning 5177 Bingham liquid 9763 Bayesian parametric and non-parametric Biochemical oscillation 525 modeling 456 Biochemical reaction network 511 List of Glossary Terms 10103 Biochemically, genetically and genomically (BiGG) Bore solitons 8506 structured reconstruction 5535 Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) 9679 Biocomposite 1283 Bose–Einstein particles 7201 Bioinformatics 2697 Boson 9679 Biological function 719 Boson peak 2827 Biological swimmers 549 Bottleneck 3143, 9302 Biologically-inspired computational Bottom-up fabrication 5859 algorithm 113 Boundary region 7787 Biologically-inspired optimization 1775 Bounded rationality 3374 Biomass function 5535 Bounded-rationality 92 Biomimetics 1283 Boussinesq equation 9967 Biomineralization 1283 Boussinesq equations 9618 Biomolecular network 570 Box 3924 Biomolecule 570 Box diameter 3924 Bionanomachines 7026 Box dimension 3827 Bipartite graph 8346 Box splines 5800, 6855 Bipartite network 6048, 8232 BQP complexity class 7155 BIRCH 5051 Bragg glass 2019 Bit 1011, 7201, 7361 Braitenberg vehicle 3682 Bit-flip 7266 Branch 4820 Bit-flip error 7325 Branch switching 6330 BKL 7931 Branched polymers 6545 Black box model 7088, 7119 Branching 4820 Block 6913 Branching process 2556 Block mapping
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