Dynamics of Macrosystems : Proceedings of a Workshop on the Dynamics of Macrosystems Held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, September 3-7, 1984

Dynamics of the Central Nervous System -- Neural Connectivities: Between Determinism and Randomness -- On Solitary Waves in Biology -- Persistence in Systems with Diffusion -- Thermodynamics of the Volterra Model -- On Optimization Principles in Plant Ecology -- Dynamical Models in Quantitative Genetics -- Gradients Versus Cycling in Genetic Selection Models -- Evolution of Asymmetry in Sexual Reproduction -- Random Behavior in Numerical Analysis, Decision Theory, and Macrosystems: -- Dynamics of Neumann-type Economic Macrosystems -- An Introduction to Viability Theory -- Heavy Viable Trajectories of Controlled Systems -- Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Infinite Delay -- A Stochastic Migration Model and its Application to Canadian Data -- Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Disease Processes -- Dynamics in Hierarchically Organized Systems -- Dynamics of Interactive Macrosystems -- Macromodels and Dynamical Systems -- The Interface Between Chemistry and Biology — Laws Determining Regularities in Early Evolution -- Autogenesis: The Evolution of Self-Organizing Systems -- A Coevolutionary Circuit Model for Cultural and Biological Evolution.