Dynamic Systems for Everyone Understanding How Our World Works /

• Main Author: Ghosh, Asish (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers and civilization.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Complexity, Computational.; Engineering > Vocational guidance.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Computers and Society.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Complexity.

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 princi...

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.