Translational Recurrences

This book features 13 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium onRecurrence Plots, held August 2013 in Chicago, IL. It examines recent applicationsand developments in recurrence plots and recurrence quantifi cation analysis (RQA)with special emphasis on biological and cognitive systems and the analysis of coupledsystems using cross-recurrence methods.Readers will discover new applications and insights into a range of systems providedby recurrence plot analysis and new theoretical and mathematical developments inrecurrence plots. Recurrence plot based analysis is a powerful tool that operates onreal-world complex systems that are nonlinear, non-stationary, noisy, of any statisticaldistribution, free of any particular model type, and not particularly long. Quantitativeanalyses promote the detection of system state changes, synchronized dynamicalregimes, or classifi cation of system states.Th e book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience of recurrence plot usersand researchers interested in time series analysis of complex systems in general.