title: Introduction to focus issue: design and control of self-organization in distributed active systems.
abstract: Spatiotemporal self-organization is found in a wide range of distributed dynamical systems. The coupling of the active elements in these systems may be local or global or within a network, and the interactions may be diffusive or nondiffusive in nature. The articles in this focus issue describe biological and chemical systems designed to exhibit spatiotemporal dynamics and the control of such dynamics through feedback methods.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Mikhailov
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Showalter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D004058:Diffusion; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009415:Nerve Net; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods; D049490:Systems Biology; D013598:Systems Theory