Why Society is a Complex Matter Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science /
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technol...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Society: a Complex Problem
- On the Road: Predicting traffic
- Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement
- Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions
- Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime
- The Social Web: Networks and their failures.- Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics
- After the Crash: Economic and financial systems
- Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation
- Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system
- The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict
- Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project.