Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.

1. Early Works in Ecology and Ecological Optimization 2. Further Development of Thermodynamic Views in Ecology 3. Ascendent Perspective of Ulanowicz 4. Genetic diversity and the spread of populations 5. Robust statistic inference for complex computer models 6. Biodiversity Maintenance In Food Webs 7. Dynamic Food Webs 8. Outline of Mathematical Ecology 9. Optimizing in Ecological Systems