Decoherence and entropy in complex systems. Selected lectures from the 1st international workshop on decoherence, information, complecity and entropy (DICE 2002), Piombino, Italia, September 2002. (Q1780010)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Barbour, Julian}, Dynamics of pure shape, relativity, and the problem of time, 15-35 [Zbl 1082.83036] \textit{Rovelli, Carlo}, Dynamics without time for quantum gravity: covariant Hamiltonian formalism and Hamilton-Jacobi equation on the space \(G\), 36-62 [Zbl 1129.83322] \textit{Halliwell, Jonathan}, Some recent developments in the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory, 63-83 [Zbl 1077.81507] \textit{Kiefer, Claus}, Is there an information-loss problem for black holes?, 84-95 [Zbl 1129.83330] \textit{Caticha, Ariel}, Towards a statistical geometrodynamics, 103-116 [Zbl 1129.83345] \textit{Diósi, Lajos}, Probability of intrinsic time-arrow from information loss, 125-135 [Zbl 1077.81031] \textit{Haba, Zbigniew; Kleinert, Hagen}, Master and Langevin equations for interaction with electromagnetic and gravitational environ\-ments, 136-150 [Zbl 1121.82343] \textit{Blasone, Massimo; Jizba, Petr; Vitiello, Giuseppe}, Dissipation, emergent quantization, and quantum fluctuations, 151-163 [Zbl 1077.81058] \textit{Biró, Tamas S.; Müller, Berndt; Matinyan, Sergei G.}, Chaotic quantization: maybe the Lord plays dice, after all?, 164-179 [Zbl 1077.81075] \textit{Wetterich, Christof}, Quantum correlations in classical statistics, 180-195 [Zbl 1077.81510] \textit{Elze, Hans-Thomas}, Quantum mechanics and discrete time from ``timeless'' classical dynamics, 196-220 [Zbl 1077.81059] \textit{Brun, Todd A.}, Decoherence and quantum trajectories, 239-252 [Zbl 1077.81508] \textit{Białynicki-Birula, Iwo}, The structure of the vacuum and the photon number, 287-295 [Zbl 1077.81535] \textit{Jizba, Petr}, Information theory and generalized statistics, 362-376 [Zbl 1129.62302] \textit{Sherman, Travis; Rafelski, Johann}, Generalization of Boltzmann equilibration dynamics, 377-384 [Zbl 1121.82325]