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Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences publishes articles that augment the fundamental ways we understand, describe, model and predict nonlinear phenomena in psychology and the life and social sciences. One or more of the following nonlinear concepts must be an explicit part of the exposition: attractors, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, solitons, catastrophes, self-organizing processes and emergence, power law distributions, cellular automata, agent-based models, genetic algorithms or related evolutionary processes, and social or neural networks. The broad mixture of the disciplines represented here indicates that many bodies of knowledge share common principles. By juxtaposing developments in different fields within the life and social sciences, the scientific communities may obtain fresh perspectives on those common principles and their implications.
Because the journal is multidisciplinary in scope, articles should make an original contribution to at least one substantive area and should in addition illuminate issues beyond that area‘s boundaries. Papers, however excellent that pertain only to an overly narrow field of interest are not appropriate for this journal.
Papers must make original contributions to the understanding of dynamical processes as defined above, and the exposition must be rigorous. Papers can focus upon theory, experimentation, algorithms, numerical simulation, applications to problems in any of the foregoing substantive areas, or philosophy of science if the subject matter is explicitly related to research and theory developments nonlinear dynamical systems. Overly abstract papers, however, in which the application to psychology or to life or social science issues is not apparent are not appropriate for this journal. In addition, papers involving experimentation, numerical simulations, or application should include introductory or discussion remarks on the theoretical explanations for the experimental results.
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