This book redefines how we think about standards, framing them as interfaces that govern interactions and connect causes to their effects. Expanding beyond traditional technical and geopolitical discussions, Garcia introduces a fresh theoretical p...Daugiau...
This book redefines how we think about standards, framing them as interfaces that govern interactions and connect causes to their effects. Expanding beyond traditional technical and geopolitical discussions, Garcia introduces a fresh theoretical p...Daugiau...
Society seems increasingly complex, in part due to constant breaking news, likes, tweets, etc. Considerable change is being entertained, or at least debated. Significant decisions are required. Decision making lately has been flawed, laced with...Daugiau...
This book represents the authors reflections on these engagements, associated challenges, and typical outcomes. These stories are reports about clients or sponsors problems and how he and his colleagues went about addressing these problems of co...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Dec-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781786308757)
Complexity is not a new issue. In fact, in their day, William of Ockham and René Descartes proposed what can best be described as reductionist methods for dealing with it. Over the course of the twentieth century, a science of complexity...Daugiau...
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to assess the promise and risks of new technology. But how do...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Aug-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781786307040)
Organization and Pedagogy of Complexity deals with real systems, their architecture, and speaks of those who design, develop and maintain them. After a summary of the architecture proposed by Daniel Krob, president of CESAMES in Paris, Fr...Daugiau...
Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, r...Daugiau...
Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more compl...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Aug-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478000037)
Attending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Aug-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478000181)
Attending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789813231825)
Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.This book collects the four IPS-Nathan Lectures that he delivered between April and May 2017, and gathers...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789813233744)
A series of four lectures delivered by the former head of the civil service in Singapore envisions government as a complex system whose connections and interactions among the many agents lead to outcomes that are inherently unpredictable and only...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jan-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789813234765)
After Holland (1929-2015) died, colleagues and former students started looking for his publications, and realized that much of his early work on computer logic and related themes was now very difficult to find, yet contained ideas that were cogen...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781607325321)
Focuses on architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and s...Daugiau...
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing...Daugiau...
A complexity scientist describes how our computer and technological systems have become too complex and interconnected for humans to fully understand or predict how they will function anymore and argues for a new framework that will make them simpler...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Nov-2014, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520276932)
Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material cultu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Nov-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520276925)
This book examines three interlocking topics that are central to all archaeological and anthropological inquiry: the role of technology in human existence; the reproduction of social traditions; the factors that generate cultural diversity and chang...Daugiau...
