Stochastic Large-Scale Engineering Systems

This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution. From a Neodarwinian viewpoint it integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity. It examines topics including genetics and speciation development and evolution the constructional and functional aspects of form fossil lineages systematics and the Cambrian explosion. This book focuses on the class of large-scale stochastic systems, which has dominated the attention of many academic and research groups. It discusses distributed-sensor networks, decentralized detection theory, and econometric models with integrated and decentralized policymakers.