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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dynamic Systems for Everyone
    sub title: Understanding How Our World Works
  name:
    name part: Ghosh, Asish.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 239 p. 114 illus., 50 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is a study of the interactions between different types of systems, their environment, and their subsystems. The author explains how basic systems principles are applied in engineered (mechanical, electromechanical, etc.) systems and then guides the reader to understand how the same principles can be applied to social, political, economic systems, as well as in everyday life. Readers from a variety of disciplines will benefit from the understanding of system behaviors and will be able to apply those principles in various contexts. The book includes many examples covering various types of systems. The treatment of the subject is non-mathematical, and the book considers some of the latest concepts in the systems discipline, such as agent-based systems, optimization, and discrete events and procedures. · Shows how system knowledge may be applied in many different areas without the need for deep mathematical knowledge; · Demonstrates how to model and simulate system behaviors on personal computers with readily available software packages; · Considers the various ways of optimizing system behavior; · Discusses the benefits of systems with highly distributed intelligence and the ways in which they may be modeled; · Considers how to incorporate discrete events and sequential steps in system dynamics; · Discusses the difference between holistic and reductionist world view. .
  table of contents: Thinking in Systems -- The Engineered Systems -- Political, Social, and Biological Systems -- The Fundamental Behavior Patterns -- Modeling and Simulation -- Optimization -- Distributed Intelligence -- Discrete Events and Procedures -- Unintended Consequences -- The Seven Habits of a Systems Savvy Person -- Epilogue: Future Directions and Challenges.
  note: by Asish Ghosh.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Computers and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Sociophysics
  subject:
    topic: Econophysics
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Vibration
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Job Careers in Science and Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
  subject:
    topic: Computers and Society
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  classification: TA157-158.3
  classification: 502.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319107356
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10735-6
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    record creation date: 150406
    record change date: 20151204183500.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-10735-6