This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in anticipation. Until recently, Robert Rosen (Anticipatory Systems) and Mihai Nadin (MIND – Anticipation and Chaos) were deemed forerunners in this still new knowledge domain.
Cognitive Systems Monographs 25 Mihai Nadin Editor Anticipation: Learning from the Past The Russian/Soviet Contributions to the Science of Anticipation Cognitive Systems Monographs Volume 25 Series editors Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany e-mail:
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[email protected] About this Series The Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS) publish new developments and advances in the fields of cognitive systems research, rapidly and informally but with a high quality. The intent is to bridge cognitive brain science and biology with engineering disciplines. It covers all the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects of cognitive systems, such as Bionics, System Analysis, System Modelling, System Design, Human Motion, Understanding, Human Activity Understanding, Man-Machine Interaction, Smart and Cognitive Environments, Human and Computer Vision, Neuroinformatics, Humanoids, Biologically motivated systems and artefacts Autonomous Systems, Linguistics, Sports Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Biosignal Processing, or Cognitive Materials as well as the methodologies behind them. Within the scope of the series are monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops. Advisory Board Heinrich H. Bülthoff, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Masayuki Inaba, The University of Tokyo, Japan J.A. Scott Kelso, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, CA, USA Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kyoto University, Japan Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld, Germany Giulio Sandini, University of Genova, Italy Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8354 Mihai Nadin Editor Anticipation: Learning from the Past The Russian/Soviet Contributions to the Science of Anticipation 1