This book features 13 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots
held August 2013 in Chicago IL. It examines recent applications and developments in recurrence
plots and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) with special emphasis on biological and
cognitive systems and the analysis of coupled systems using cross-recurrence methods.Readers
will discover new applications and insights into a range of systems provided by recurrence plot
analysis and new theoretical and mathematical developments in recurrence plots. Recurrence plot
based analysis is a powerful tool that operates on real-world complex systems that are
nonlinear non-stationary noisy of any statistical distribution free of any particular model
type and not particularly long. Quantitative analyses promote the detection of system state
changes synchronized dynamical regimes or classification of system states.The book will be of
interest to an interdisciplinary audience of recurrence plot users and researchers interested
in time series analysis of complex systems in general.
