Analysis and Data-Based Reconstruction of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar is Professor in Physics Department of Sharif University of Technology and published over 120 articles in scientific journals. He was fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Oldenburg and Bonn Universities, Mercator guest professor at Osnabrück University and associate member of ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Introduction to Stochastic Processes.- 3 Kramers-Moyal Expansion and Fokker-Planck Equation.- 4 Continuous Stochastic Process.- 5 The Langevin Equation and Wiener Process.- 6 Stochastic Integration, It^o and Stratonovich Calculi.- 7 Equivalence of Langevin and Fokker-Planck Equations.- 8 Examples of Stochastic Calculus.- 9 Langevin Dynamics in Higher Dimensions.- 10 Levy Noise Driven Langevin Equation and its Time Series-Based Reconstruction.- 11 Stochastic Processes with Jumps and Non-Vanishing Higher-Order Kramers-Moyal Coefficients.- 12 Jump-Diffusion Processes.- 13 Two-Dimensional (Bivariate) Jump-Diffusion Processes.- 14 Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations: Diffusion and Jump-Diffusion Processes.- 15 The Friedrich-Peinke Approach to Reconstruction of Dynamical Equation for Time Series: Complexity in View of Stochastic Processes.- 16 How To Set Up Stochastic Equations For Real-World Processes: Markov-Einstein Time Scale.- 17 Reconstruction of Stochastic Dynamical Equations: Exemplary Stationary Diffusion and Jump-Diffusion Processes.- 18 The Kramers-Moyal Coefficients of Non-Stationary Time series in The Presence of  Microstructure (Measurement) Noise.- 19 Influence of Finite Time Step in Estimating of the Kramers-Moyal Coefficients.- 20 Distinguishing Diffusive and Jumpy Behaviors in Real-World Time Series.- 21 Reconstruction of Langevin and Jump-Diffusion Dynamics From Empirical Uni- and Bivariate Time Series.- 22 Applications and Outlook.- 23 Epileptic Brain Dynamics.