Design is everywhere in our lives--but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. This book is a guide to co-designing service systems. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meanin…
Design is everywhere in our lives--but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. This book is a guide to co-designing service systems. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meanin…
The economy as an evolving complex system: the proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the …
by Pines, David, Arrow, Kenneth J., (Kenneth Joseph), Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop, Sante Fe, N.M.), Anderson, P. W., (Philip W.), Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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Discusses a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropiate mathematics, with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with many variables, nonlinearity, and dynamics. Presents techniques for nonlinear dynamics and the study of adaptive paths with th aims of e…
Optimal control theory and optimization--two areas of applied mathematics that develop theories and procedures for improving the performance of a given process by an appropriate choice of parameters and controls--are the focus of this monograph. Examines theoretical aspects of o…
This text provides analytical treatment of measurement methods and systems. Special features include measurement systems, flexible organization with an emphasis on co-ordinate measuring machines, clean-room technology, surface roughness and machine vision.
This book is conceived as a comprehensive and detailed text-book on non-linear dynamical systems with particular emphasis on the exploration of chaotic phenomena. The self-contained introductory presentation is addressed both to those who wish to study the physics of chaotic sy…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference, ICISP 2014, held in June/July 2014 in Cherbourg, France. The 76 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections …
With the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had "improved" its rivers. We've straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive efforts to control them, yet our actions have been less than successful. Too often, physical chan…
Text data that is associated with location data has become ubiquitous. A tweet is an example of this type of data, where the text in a tweet is associated with the location where the tweet has been issued. We use the term spatial-keyword data to refer to this type of data. Spati…
Focusing on traditional drainage methods for rainfed agriculture in humid temperature zones, this fully renewed and extended edition provides new theories, technologies, knowledge and experiences in drainage engineering and management. Fully renewed and extended, this edition is…
