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  • Cybernetics and Systems

    Social and Business Decisions

    Edited by Sergio Barile, Raul Espejo, Igor Perko, Marialuisa Saviano ...
    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Systems Management
    Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate. Well-grounded theoretical frameworks, such as systems thinking and cybernetics, offer general level interpretation schemes and models that are capable of supporting understanding of complex phenomena and are not impacted by the passage of time.This book serves the knowledge society to address ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Systems Thinking and Viable Systems

    Edited by Sergio Barile ...
    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Systems Management
    In the last few decades, managerial and business studies have shown an increasing inability to explain and forecast emergent dynamics in society, economics, and the environment.Consolidated managerial approaches and business theories seem to be incapable of communicating and depicting the ongoing evolution, and new perspectives are required to support both researchers and practitioners in tracing ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective

    Edited by Marco Pellicano, Francesco Polese, Sergio Barile ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations. The aim is to increase readers’ understanding of complexity and of socio-economic interactions through the application of systems thinking perspectives. Among the various areas and topics addressed are complexity and sustainable management, markets as complex adaptive systems, the impacts of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... Read more

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  • Embracing Complexity in Design

    Edited by Katerina Alexiou, Jeffrey Johnson, Theodore Zamenopoulos ...
    Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.A ground-breaking ... Read more

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  • The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory

    by Kenneth C. Bausch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers.Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly thematic areas: designing social systems, the structure of the social world, communication, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Design Way, second edition

    Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World

    by Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman ...
    A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.Humans did not discover fire—they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things—technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking—we engage in design. With this expansive view of design ... Read more

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  • Engineering Systems Integration

    Theory, Metrics, and Methods

    by Gary O. Langford ...
    The first book to address the underlying premises of systems integration and how to exposit them into a practical and productive manner, this book prepares systems managers and systems engineers to consider their decisions in light of systems integration metrics. The book addresses two questions: Is there a way to express the interplay of human actions and the result of system interactions of a ... Read more

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  • Complexity, Learning and Organizations

    A Quantum Interpretation of Business

    by Walter R.J. Baets ...
    This fascinating book argues for a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, companies or (Western) society as a whole. Walter R.J. Baets argues that we should let go of our drive to control, manage and organize, in order to be able to create an ideal environment for continuous learning, both for ourselves and for our collaborators.Arguing in favour of a holistic management approach, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge

    by Ingeman Arbnor, Bjorn Bjerke ...
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  • Philosophical Engineering

    Toward a Philosophy of the Web

    Edited by Harry Halpin, Alexandre Monnin ...
    Series series Metaphilosophy
    This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains.Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenologyTackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ... Read more

    $29.00 USD