Cooperative Dynamics in Complex Physical Systems

I New Type of Phase Transitions in Frustrated Systems, Polymers, etc..- Statistical Physics of Domain Walls and Grain Boundaries in Ordering Kinetics.- Super-Effective-Field CAM Theory of Dynamical Complexity.- Some Recent Experiments in Turbulently Stirred Fluids.- A Numerical Study of Defect Dynamics in a Three-Dimensional Complex Field.- Monte Carlo-Molecular Dynamics Simulation in Two-Dimensional Spin Systems.- Can Rod-like Molecules Form a Smectic Phase Without Attractive Forces?.- Martensitic Transformation: Nonlinear Order Parameter.- Successive Magnetic Ordering in a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet CsNiCl3.- Evidence for Z2-Vortex Excitations in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnets HCrO2 and LiCrO2.- Soliton Dynamics in Impure Ising-like Antiferromagnetic Chains.- Soliton-Mediated Magnetic Phase Transition in the Frustrated Antiferromagnet CsCoCl3.- Computer Experiment on Sublattice Dynamics of Antiferromagnetic Triangular Lattice Systems with 1/fn Fluctuations: Proposal of SSA for the Study of Frustrated Systems.- A New Approach to the Frustrated Two-Dimensional Ising Models.- New Type of Phase Transition in an Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on a Stacked Triangular Lattice by the Interface Method.- Spin Dynamics of an Ising-like S = 1/2 Antiferromagnet on Finite Chains and Triangular Lattices.- Higher-Order Commensurate, Incommensurate and Liquid Phases of an Atomic Monolayer System on a Periodic Substrate.- Critical Phenomena of a Quantum Heisenberg-like Antiferromagnet.- Ground-State Long-Range Order of the Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnet.- Random Interfaces and the Physics of Microemulsions.- Dynamical Aspects of Volume Phase Transition and Pattern Formation in Polymer Gels.- Coherent-Anomaly Method in Polymer Physics.- Computer Modelling of Pattern Formation in Gels.- Molecular Theory of Thermoreversible Gelation.- Electrostatic Effects and Counterion Condensation in Gels.- Role of Fluctuations in Fluid Mechanics and Dendritic Solidification.- Phase Transition and Fractals: Fractal Configurations of the Ising Models.- Aggregation of Particles with Deterministic Trajectories.- Anomalous Diffusion in a Fractal Potential.- Dynamical Behavior of Fractal Clusters via Aggregation and Evaporation Processes.- Growth of Clusters Through Evaporation-Condensation Processes.- II Spin Glasses and Related Random Systems.- Slow Relaxations in Spin Glasses and Related Random Systems.- Models for Slow Relaxation in Glassy Systems.- Experimental Study of the Slow Dynamics in the Spin-Glass Phase.- Scaling Theory of the Ordered Phase of Real Spin Glasses.- Phase Diagram and Critical Properties of the Finite-Dimensional Spin Glasses.- Griffiths Singularities and the Dynamics of Random Systems.- Moment Instabilities and Reentrant Spin Glass Behavior in 3d Transition Metal Alloys.- Ultradiffusion in the SK Spin Glass.- Critical Behavior of the Uniaxially Anisotropic Spin Glass ZnMn.- Mixed Phase in the Reentrant Ising System FexMn1-xTiO3.- Dynamic Properties of a Reentrant Spin Glass Pd1-x-yFexMny.- Time Dependent Magnetic Phenomena in Dilute Ising Systems Fe1-xMgxCl2.- Nonlinear Susceptibility and Magnetic Ordering of MCl2-GICs.- On the Three-Dimensional ± J Ising Model by the Transfer Matrix Method.- Application of the Coherent Anomaly Method to d-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses.- The Frequency Dependence of the AC Susceptibility in Spin Glasses.- Dynamics of Nonlinear Tenuous Structures.- Random Field Phenomena at Magnetic Surfaces and Interfaces.- Spin Glasses and High-Tc Superconductivity.- Magnetic Frustration and Pairing in Doped Lanthanum Cuprate.- Glassy Dynamics in Proteins.- Vulcanization: How Randomly Cross-Linked Macromolecules Form Equilibrium Amorphous Solids.- Superlocalization of Fractons: Direct Observation by Supercomputer.- A Possibility of Spin-Glass Ordering in the Oxide Superconductor (La1?xSrx)2CuO4??.- Percolation Treatment of Frustrated Ising Lattices.- Critical Properties of the Fuzzy Model.- Monte Carlo Simulations on a Controlled-Frustration Model of ±J Ising Systems.- Simulation of Spin Dynamics for FMR in Compounds with Competing Anisotropies.- III Optimization Problems and Neural Network Models.- Optimization Problems at Thermal Equilibrium.- Bayesian Statistics and Statistical Mechanics.- Graph Partitioning and Spin Glasses.- Statistical Neurodynamics — Associative Memory and Self-Organization.- Reconstruction of Images in the Visual Cortex.- Modelling Brain Lesions in Neural Networks.- Neural Network Formation and the Activity of an Aggregate of Dissociated Hydra Cells.- Glauber Dynamics of Neural Network Models.- Stochastic Dynamics of an Analog Neural Network.- Rule Dynamics and the Fuzzy Attractor: New Approach to EEG.- Phase Selection of the Immune Network.- IV Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids, Chemical and Biological Systems, etc..- Are Earthquakes, Fractals, and 1/f Noise Self-organized Critical Phenomena?.- Marginal Stability, Memory and Nonlinear Dynamics of Charge Density Waves.- Stochastic Aspects of the Sliding Charge-Density-Wave Current Spectra.- Dynamical Critical Phenomena in Sliding Charge-Density-Waves.- Metastability, Adaptability and Memory in Charge Density Waves.- Transition to Turbulence via Spatiotemporal Intermittency.- Onset of Collective Rhythms in Large Populations of Coupled Oscillators.- Nonlinear Dynamics in Chemical Systems.- The Thermodynamic Behavior of Elementary Reversible Cellular Automata.- Mixing Property and Lyapunov Spectra of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom.- Defect Turbulence in EHD Convection of Liquid Crystal.- Self-Organized Electric Structure in Uni- and Multicellular Biological Systems.- Interaction of Chemical Waves and Hydrodynamic Flow.- Flow Visualization of the Velocity Field of Square Convection Near the Critical Point Using Holographic Interferometry.- Pattern Formation by Nonlinear Reactions and Diffusion in Electrochemical Systems.- Dissipative Structure and an External Noise Effect in an Energy Conversion System.- Nonlinear Binary Fluid Convection at Positive Separation Ratios.- Index of Contributors.