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Fractals and Related Phenomena in Nature

Vancouver, Canada, 4 - 7 April 2004


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
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SELECTED TOPICS IN MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND FINANCE ORIGINATING IN FRACTAL GEOMETRY
BENOIT B. MANDELBROT
1
A RENEWAL PROCESS OF MITTAG-LEFFLER TYPE
FRANCESCO MAINARDI, RUDOLF GORENFLO and ENRICO SCALAS
35
ON THE ACTIVITY OF ABSORBING IRREGULAR INTERFACES
J. S. ANDRADE, JR., H. F. DA SILVA, E. A. HENRIQUE and B. SAPOVAL
47
FRACTAL DEFORMATION USING DISPLACEMENT VECTORS AND THEIR INCREASING RATES BASED ON EXTENDED UNIT ITERATED SHUFFLE TRANSFORMATION
TADAHIRO FUJIMOTO and NORISHIGE CHIBA
57
Multifractal and Stochastic Analysis of Electropolished Surfaces
MARIA HAASE, ALEJANDRO MORA and BERND LEHLE
69
A METHOD FOR NUMERICAL ESTIMATION OF GENERALIZED RÉNYI DIMENSIONS OF AFFINE RECURRENT IFS INVARIANT MEASURES
TOMEK MARTYN
79
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND PREDICTION OF THE CASPIAN SEA LEVEL
N. G. MAKARENKO, L. M. KARIMOVA, Y. B. KUANDYKOV and M. M. NOVAK
91
SELF-SIMILARITY IN PLANTS: INTEGRATING MATHEMATICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
PRZEMYSLAW PRUSINKIEWICZ
103
COGNITIVE SCALE-FREE NETWORKS AS A MODEL FOR INTERMITTENCY IN HUMAN NATURAL LANGUAGE
PAOLO ALLEGRINI, PAOLO GRIGOLINI and LUIGI PALATELLA
119
THE COMPLEXITY OF BIOLOGICAL AGEING
DIETRICH STAUFFER
131
FITTING CURVES BY FRACTAL INTERPOLATION: AN APPLICATION TO THE QUANTIFICATION OF COGNITIVE BRAIN PROCESSES
M.A. NAVASCUES and M.V. SEBASTIAN
143
STOCHASTIC AND REGULAR COMPONENTS IN FORCING OF SOLAR LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURES
E. TIKHOMOLOV
155
FAST, EFFICIENT ON-LINE SIMULATION OF SELF-SIMILAR PROCESSES
OWEN DAFYDD JONES
165
FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN THE ARTS: AN OVERVIEW ACROSS THE DIFFERENT CULTURES
NICOLETTA SALA
177
FRACTAL PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ROAD PROFILES
PIERRICK LEGRAND, JACQUES LÉVY VÉHEL and MINH-TAN DO
189
FRACTAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF TEMPERATURE, SALINITY AND FLUORESCENCE IN SPRING 2001-2002 IN SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO BAY
KAREN FISHER and WIM KIMMERER
199
CHARACTERIZATION OF FRACTAL STRUCTURES THROUGH A HAUSDORFF MEASURE BASED METHOD
FAHIMA NEKKA and JUN LI
213
FRACTAL SCATTERING INDICATORS FOR URBAN SOUND DIFFUSION
PHILIPPE WOLOSZYN
221
BINOMIAL MULTIPLICATIVE MODEL OF CRITICAL FRAGMENTATION
H. KATSURAGI, D. SUGINO and H. HONJO
233
STUDY ON THE IMPROVED FRACTAL INTERPOLATION SURFACE OF THE ATTITUDE AND SURFACE OF FAULT
HONGQUAN SUN and HEPING XIE
243
A DETERMINISTIC POWER DOMAIN ALGORITHM FOR FRACTAL IMAGE DECOMPRESSION
N. NIKOLAOU, A. KAKOS and V. DRAKOPOULOS
255
COMPARATIVE DYNAMIC SCALING ANALYSIS OF QUASI-2D ELECTRODEPOSITED SILVER PATTERNS UNDER LOCALIZED AND NON-LOCALIZED RANDOM QUENCHED NOISE
M. A. PASQUALE, S. L. MARCHIANO and A. J. ARVIA
267
EPIDERMAL RIDGES: POSITIONAL INFORMATION CODED IN AN ORIENTATIONAL FIELD
MINH BINH NGUYEN, VINCENT FLEURY and JEAN-FRANÇOIS GOUYET
279
MULTISCALE PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS
ANTOINE SAUCIER
291
COEXISTENCE OF DOUBLON AND DENDRITE STRUCTURE WITH PHASE-FIELD MODEL
Seiji Tokunaga and Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
301
FRACTALITY AND FRACTAL DIMENSION IN MESOAMERICAN PYRAMID ANALYSIS
GERARDO BURKLE-ELIZONDO, ANA GABRIELA FUENTES-LARIOS and RICARDO DAVID VALDEZ-CEPEDA
309
MORPHOLOGICAL VARIETY IN CRYSTAL GROWTH OF MERCURY (II) CHLORIDE ON AGAR SLIDES
J. ALBERTO BETANCOURT-MAR and E. JONATHAN SUÁREZ-DOMÍNGUEZ
311
FRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BAINBRIDGE CRATER LAKE SEDIMENT GRAY-SCALE INTENSITY DATA DOCUMENTING THE FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY OF HOLOCENE EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION EVENTS
NATALIA A. BRYKSINA and WILLIAM M. LAST
313
FRACTALS AND PLANT WATER USE EFFICIENCY
A. BARI, G. AYAD, A. MARTIN, J.L. GONZALEZ-ANDUJAR, M. NACHIT and I. ELOUAFI
315
NEED AND FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING L-SYSTEM MODELS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP MODELING
L. PACHEPSKY, M. KAUL, CH. WALTHALL, C. DAUGHTRY and J. LYDON
317
FRACTAL DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE USING RS STATISTICS AND HONEYBEE NAVIGATIONAL SKILLS IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS
Reginald L. Walker
319
SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING WITH FRACLAB
JACQUES LÉVY VÉHEL and PIERRICK LEGRAND
321
BACK MATTER
323
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