Robust Design

"A wide community of scientists and engineers, who increasingly rely on interdisciplinary efforts to tack their research problems, will appreciate the systems-level perspective their book provides. The authors make a nice attempt to present a comprehensive picture of a systems-level property with wide-reaching implications."-- Quarterly Review of Biology

• Erica Jen: Introduction 1: Erica Jen: Stable or Robust? What's the Difference? 2: R.C. Lewontin and Peter J.E. Goss: Development Canalization, Stochasticity, and Robustness 3: Joachim Hermisson and Gunter P. Wagner: Evolution of Phenotypic Robustness 4: Christopher A. Voight, Stephen L. Mayo, Zhen-Gang Wang, and Frances Arnold: Principles and Parameters of Molecular Robustness in Evolution 5: Eve Marder and Dirk Bucher: Robustness in Neuronal Systems: The Balance Between Homeostasis, Plasticity, and Modulation 6: Colleen T. Webb and Simon A. Levin: Cross-System Perspectives on the Ecology and Evolution of Resilience 7: Brian Walker, Garry Peterson, John M. Anderies, Ann Kinzig, and Steve Carpenter: Robustness in Ecosystems 8: Douglas H. Erwin: Robustness in the History of Life? 9: Stephanie Forrest, Justin Balthrop, Matthew Glickman, and David Ackley: Computation in the Wild 10: Walter Willinger and John Doyle: Robustness and the Internet: Design and Evolution 11: John C. Doyle, Steven H. Low, Fernando Paganini, Glen Vinnicombe, Walter Willinger, and Pablo Parrilo: Robustness and the Internet: Theoretical Foundations Index: