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Multidisciplinary Framework of Information Propagation Online
Av Susannah B. F. Paletz, Brooke E. Auxier m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This book presents a broad, multidisciplinary review of the factors that have been shown to or might influence sharing information on social media, regardless of its veracity. Drawing on literature from psychology, sociology, political science, communication, and information studies, the book …
Improving Human Performance in Dynamic Tasks
Applications in Management and Industry
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks. The defining characteristics of a dynamic decision task are that there are a number of decisions required, that decisions are interdependent and that the environment in which the decision is made is …
Citation Analysis and Dynamics of Citation Networks
Häftad, 2019
681 kr
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This book deals with the science of science by applying network science methods to citation networks and uniquely presents a physics-inspired model of citation dynamics. This stochastic model of citation dynamics is based on a well-known copying or recursive search mechanism. The measurements …
Target in Control
Social Influence as Distributed Information Processing
Av Andrzej K. Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with …
Performing Complexity: Building Foundations for the Practice of Complex Thinking
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it. In this book, the author approaches complexity from the standpoint of a relational worldview. The author recasts complex thinking as a mode of coupling between an observer …
Data Science for Social Good
Philanthropy and Social Impact in a Complex World
Av Massimo Lapucci, Ciro Cattuto
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book is a collection of reflections by thought leaders at first-mover organizations in the exploding field of "Data Science for Social Good", meant as the application of knowledge from computer science, complex systems and computational social science to challenges such as humanitarian …
From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management
A New Kind of Science for Managing Complexity
Av Domenico Lepore, Angela Montgomery m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
513 kr
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This book provides the conceptual framework and a comprehensive guide to the principles, methods and tools for managing organizations. The authors introduce “New Knowledge” by presenting a methodology, 'The Decalogue’, that portrays a genuinely systemic approach for managing complexity in …
Fractal Patterns with MATLAB
Av Santo Banerjee, A. Gowrisankar m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
498 kr
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This book presents the iterative beauty of fractals and fractal functions graphically with the aid of MATLAB programming. The fractal images generated using the MATLAB codes provide visual delight and highly encourage the fractal lovers for creative thinking. The book compiles five cutting-edge …
Systems Thinking for Sustainability Education in Business Schools
Häftad, 2024
1534 kr
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This book delves into the current state and future prospects of systems thinking and sustainability education within business schools. It meticulously examines the trends and drivers shaping the demand and supply of such education, along with the implications and challenges it presents for various …
Network model selection: A review of methods
Häftad, 2027
608 kr
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Understanding the processes behind the evolution of complex networks is a key objective in network science. An effective framework for tackling this challenge is network model selection, which involves finding the model from a set of candidates that best explains a given network. This book is a …
Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition
Av Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
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This monograph demonstrates the interplay between Shannon information and semantic information in cognition. It shows that Shannon’s information acts as driving force for the formation of semantic information; and vice versa, namely, that semantic information participates in the formation of …
Physics of Stocks and Flows of Energy Systems
Applications in Energy Policy
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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Using a system dynamics approach, this book illustrates the physics of fundamental accumulation processes (stocks and flows) across the demand and supply sectors of energy systems. Examples of system dynamics simulation models are presented where these accumulation processes are driving the …
Agent-Based Modelling of Social Networks in Labour–Education Market System
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks is …
Network Role Mining and Analysis
Av Derek Doran
Häftad, 2017
569 kr
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This brief presents readers with a summary of classic, modern, and state-of-the-art methods for discovering the roles of entities in networks (including social networks) that range from small to large-scale. It classifies methods by their mathematical underpinning, whether they are driven by …
Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict
From Mechanisms to Complex Behavior
Häftad, 2017
552 kr
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This Brief revisits and extends Epstein’s classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanishing of the risk perception (‘massive fear loss’) when …
Non-Dissipative Effects in Nonequilibrium Systems
Häftad, 2017
552 kr
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This book introduces and discusses both the fundamental aspects and the measurability of applications of time-symmetric kinetic quantities, outlining the features that constitute the non-dissipative branch of non-equilibrium physics.These specific features of non-equilibrium dynamics have largely …
Bursty Human Dynamics
Av Márton Karsai, Hang-Hyun Jo m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
607 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour. It presents common and alternative understanding of the investigated phenomena, and points out open questions worthy of further investigations.The book is structured as follows. In the …
Maximum-Entropy Networks
Pattern Detection, Network Reconstruction and Graph Combinatorics
Av Tiziano Squartini, Diego Garlaschelli
Häftad, 2017
716 kr
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This book is an introduction to maximum-entropy models of random graphs with given topological properties and their applications. Its original contribution is the reformulation of many seemingly different problems in the study of both real networks and graph theory within the unified framework of …
Statistical Physics and Computational Methods for Evolutionary Game Theory
Häftad, 2018
716 kr
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This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities. EGT allows one to represent and study several complex phenomena, such as the emergence of …
Why We Live in Hierarchies?
A Quantitative Treatise
Av Anna Zafeiris, Tamás Vicsek
Häftad, 2018
552 kr
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This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy. To do so, it discusses recent experiments and models that are simple and realistic enough to reproduce the observations, and develops concepts for a better …
Applied Artificial Intelligence: Where AI Can Be Used In Business
Häftad, 2018
794 kr
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This book deals with artificial intelligence (AI) and its several applications. It is not an organic text that should be read from the first page onwards, but rather a collection of articles that can be read at will (or at need). The idea of this work is indeed to provide some food for thoughts on …
Multiplex Networks
Basic Formalism and Structural Properties
Av Emanuele Cozzo, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
662 kr
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This book provides the basis of a formal language and explores its possibilities in the characterization of multiplex networks. Armed with the formalism developed, the authors define structural metrics for multiplex networks. A methodology to generalize monoplex structural metrics to multiplex …
Statistical Physics of Synchronization
Av Shamik Gupta, Alessandro Campa m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
662 kr
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This book introduces and discusses the analysis of interacting many-body complex systems exhibiting spontaneous synchronization from the perspective of nonequilibrium statistical physics. While such systems have been mostly studied using dynamical system theory, the book underlines the usefulness …
Universe as Automaton
From Simplicity and Symmetry to Complexity
Häftad, 2011
662 kr
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This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that cellular automata must be considered complex …
Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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The book is about the key elements required for designing, building and controlling effective artificial swarms comprised of multiple moving physical agents. Therefore this book presents the fundamentals of each of those key elements in the particular frame of dynamic swarming, specifically …
