ISBN : 9789819830220
Author : Lai Ying-Cheng
Publisher : World Science
Year : 2026
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : This book presents a comprehensive exploration of reservoir computing as a powerful, data-driven framework for modeling, predicting, and controlling complex nonlinear dynamical systems. Grounded in the foundational principles of chaos theory and neural computation, the text establishes reservoir computing as a computationally efficient method that learns a system's dynamics purely from time-series data, without requiring knowledge of the underlying governing equations. The core of the work demonstrates the framework's remarkable success in forecasting chaotic behavior, moving beyond short-term prediction to achieve the long-term reconstruction of a system's characteristic attractor and the creation of faithful "digital twins.