Nonlinear Dynamics of Living Systems

Call for Papers

Living systems are self-organizing entities that may actively interact with the environment. The examples range from single cells to supranational organizations such as United Nations, passing through plant communities and habitats populated by different species. Regardless of their intrinsic structure, living systems exhibit complex spatiotemporal dynamics, which is usually significantly nonlinear. Then small variations in the internal parameters of a living system or in its environment may lead to dramatic changes in the behavior of the system. In order to model the behavior of complex living systems or to interpret the results of modeling studies, researchers must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. The theory of dynamical systems is a major province of applied mathematics, which is currently progressing at a rapid rate. It provides a systematic study and in-depth mathematical analysis of complex time-evolving systems. Recent efforts produced relevant results in a variety of fields including physics, neuroscience, medicine, and robotics among others.

We invite authors to submit original research and review articles devoted to the study of the nonlinear dynamics of living systems. We are interested in articles that explore qualitative theory of dynamical systems, study mathematical models, and bifurcations. We also encourage authors to submit articles developing mathematical tools and methods of the analysis and interpretation of time series. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Mathematical models in biology
• Dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems
• Population dynamics
• Dynamics of neural networks
• Numerical methods in life sciences
• Medical imaging

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jam/ndls/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Valeri Makarov, Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, The Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Guest Editors

• Igor Belykh, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
• Alexey Pavlov, Department of Radiophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
• Victor Kazantsev, Laboratory of Nonlinear Processes in Biosystems, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia