User:Kluever

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Jürgen Klüver is a German academic and head of the research group Computer Based Analysis of Social Complex Systems (COBASC). He was born in 1941 in Holstein, Germany, and studied Philosophy, Mathematics, and Mathematical Logic at the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg (Germany).

His main research interest is the analysis of dynamical complex systems, in particular cognitive and social systems, by the construction and usage of computer models. His research mainly is orientated to two lines: On the one hand he concentrates on the construction of general theories about social and cognitive complexity. Accordingly he developed a new theory for socio-cultural evolution, based on mathematical models, and a mathematical theory of human communication, based on new mathematical definitions of meaning and information. His central theme is always the combination of classical social and cognitive theories with mathematical models and thus enlarging and improving these theories.

On the other hand his research deals with the theoretical and mathematical analysis of so called Soft Computing techniques or nature analogous mathematical models respectively like cellular automata, Boolean networks, evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, Fuzzy methods, and hybrid systems, i.e. the combination of different techniques. Among other results he discovered and analyzed a new ordering parameter for Boolean networks, studied the relation between variance values of weight matrices of neural networks and their generalization capacity, and developed a new general learning schema for neural networks. He also constructed a new self-organized learning neural network, the Self-Enforcing Network (SEN) and a new evolutionary algorithm, the Regulator Algorithm (RGA).

Selected publications

 * The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems. New Foundations for a Mathematical Sociology. Dordrecht (NL) 2000: Kluwer Academic Publishers
 * An Essay Concerning Socio-Cultural Evolution. Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models. Dordrecht (NL) 2002: Kluwer Academic Publishers
 * On Communication. An Interdisciplinary and Mathematical Approach (together with Christina Klüver). Dordrecht (NL) 2007: Springer
 * Social Understanding. On Hermeneutics, Geometrical Models, and Artificial Intelligence (together with Christina Klüver). Dordrecht (NL) 2011: Springer