This edited book is aimed at interdisciplinary, device-oriented, applications of nonlinear science theory and methods in complex systems. In particular, applications directed to nonlinear phenomena with space and time characteristics. Examples include: complex networks of magnetic sensor systems, coupled nano-mechanical oscillators, nano-detectors, microscale devices, stochastic resonance in multi-dimensional chaotic systems, biosensors, and stochastic signal quantization. "applications of nonlinear dynamics: model and design of complex systems" brings together the work of scientists and engineers that are applying ideas and methods from nonlinear dynamics to design and fabricate complex systems.

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The ?eld of applied nonlinear dynamics has attracted scientists and engineers across many different disciplines to develop innovative ideas and methods to study c- plex behavior exhibited by relatively simple systems. Examples include: population dynamics, ?uidization processes, applied optics, stochastic resonance, ?ocking and ?ightformations,lasers,andmechanicalandelectricaloscillators. Acommontheme among these and many other examples is the underlying universal laws of nonl- ear science that govern the behavior, in space and time, of a given system. These laws are universal in the sense that they transcend the model-speci?c features of a system and so they can be readily applied to explain and predict the behavior of a wide ranging phenomena, natural and arti?cial ones. Thus the emphasis in the past decades has been in explaining nonlinear phenomena with signi?cantly less att- tion paid to exploiting the rich behavior of nonlinear systems to design and fabricate new devices that can operate more ef?ciently. Recently, there has been a series of meetings on topics such as Experimental Chaos, Neural Coding, and Stochastic Resonance, which have brought together many researchers in the ?eld of nonlinear dynamics to discuss, mainly, theoretical ideas that may have the potential for further implementation. In contrast, the goal of the 2007 ICAND (International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics) was focused more sharply on the implementation of theoretical ideas into actual - vices and systems.

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Invited Speakers.- Construction of a Chaotic Computer Chip.- Activated Switching in a Parametrically Driven Micromechanical Torsional Oscillator.- Quantum Nanomechanics.- Coupled-Core Fluxgate Magnetometer.- Data Assimilation in the Detection of Vortices.- The Role of Receptor Occupancy Noise in Eukaryotic Chemotaxis.- Applications of Forbidden Interval Theorems in Stochastic Resonance.- Smart Materials and Nonlinear Dynamics for Innovative Transducers.- Dynamics in Non-Uniform Coupled SQUIDs.- Applications of Nonlinear and Reconfigurable Electronic Circuits.- Multi-Phase Synchronization and Parallel Power Converters.- Coupled Nonlinear Oscillator Array (CNOA) Technology - Theory and Design.- Nonlinear Dynamic Effects of Adaptive Filters in Narrowband Interference-Dominated Environments.- Design-Oriented Bifurcation Analysis of Power Electronics Systems.- Collective Phenomena in Complex Social Networks.- Enhancement of Signal Response in Complex Networks Induced by Topology and Noise.- Critical Infrastructures, Scale-Free~Networks, and the Hierarchical Cascade of Generalized Epidemics.- Noisy Nonlinear Detectors.- Cochlear Implant Coding with Stochastic Beamforming and Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance.- Applying Stochastic Signal Quantization Theory to the Robust Digitization of Noisy Analog Signals.- Resonance Curves of Multidimensional Chaotic Systems.- Learning of Digital Spiking Neuron and its Application Potentials.- Dynamics in Manipulation and Actuation of Nano-Particles.- Nonlinear Buckling Instabilities of Free-Standing Mesoscopic Beams.- Developments in Parrondo's Paradox.- Magnetophysiology of Brain Slices Using an HTS SQUID Magnetometer System.- Dynamical Hysteresis Neural Networks for Graph Coloring Problem.- Semiconductor Laser Dynamics for Novel Applications.- Nonlinear Prediction Intervals by the Bootstrap Resampling.- Quantum Measurements with Dynamically Bistable Systems.- Poster Session.- Dynamics and Noise in dc-SQUID Magnetometer Arrays.- Stochastically Forced Nonlinear Oscillations: Sensitivity, Bifurcations and Control.- Simultaneous, Multi-Frequency, Multi-Beam Antennas Employing Synchronous Oscillator Arrays.- Effects of Nonhomogeneities in Coupled, Overdamped, Bistable Systems.- A New Diversification Method to Solve Vehicle Routing Problems Using Chaotic Dynamics.- Self-Organized Neural Network Structure Depending on the STDP Learning Rules.- Communication in the Computer Networks with Chaotic Neurodynamcis.- Nonlinear DDE Analysis of Repetitive Hand Movements in Parkinson's Disease.- Experimental Results of Coupled E-Field Sensor.- Chaos Generators for Noise Radar.- Resonance Induced by Repulsive Links.- Time Scales of Performance Levels During Training of Complex Motor Tasks.- Analysis of Nonlinear Bistable Circuits.- Noise-Induced Transitions for Limit Cycles of Nonlinear Systems.- Torus Bifurcation in Uni-Directional Coupled Gyroscopes.