The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances.
Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger...
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative ...
The study of physics has changed in character, mainly due to the passage from the analyses of linear systems to the analyses of nonlinear systems. Such a change began, it goes without saying, a long time ago but the qualitative change took place and boldly evolved after the understanding of the nature of chaos in nonlinear s- tems. The importance of these systems is due to the fact that the major part of physical reality is nonlinear. Linearity appears as a result of the simpli?cation of real systems, and often, is hardly achievable during the experimental studies. In this book, we focus our...
The study of physics has changed in character, mainly due to the passage from the analyses of linear systems to the analyses of nonlinear systems. Suc...
With contributions by leading researchers in grey systems theory and applications, the papers in this volume were selected from presentations to the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, held in Nanjing, China.
With contributions by leading researchers in grey systems theory and applications, the papers in this volume were selected from presentations to the 2...
Applying the latest deterministic chaos and nonlinear analysis methodologies to global politics, this volume provides mathematical models for political and economic concerns, using fractals and other techniques to interpret phenomena such as the Arab Spring.
Applying the latest deterministic chaos and nonlinear analysis methodologies to global politics, this volume provides mathematical models for politica...
Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top of the brain's slowly-changing anatomical connectivity. Measuring such transfer is crucial to understanding how flexible information routing and processing give rise to higher cognitive function. Directed Information Measures in Neuroscience reviews recent developments of concepts and tools for measuring information transfer, their application to neurophysiological recordings and analysis of interactions. Written by the most active...
Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top ...
This book focuses on systems engineering, systems thinking, and how that thinking can be learned in practice. It describes a novel analytical framework based on activity theory for understanding how systems thinking evolves and how it can be improved to support multidisciplinary teamwork in the context of system development and systems engineering. This method, developed using data collected over four years from three different small space systems engineering organizations, can be applied in a wide variety of work activities in the context of engineering design and beyond in order to...
This book focuses on systems engineering, systems thinking, and how that thinking can be learned in practice. It describes a novel analytical frame...
This self-contained presentation by leading researchers provides a coherent introduction to the residual generator method of fault detection in non-linear systems, which meets the precision requirements of real-time diagnostics in complex industrial processes.
This self-contained presentation by leading researchers provides a coherent introduction to the residual generator method of fault detection in non-li...
Addressing a hugely diverse range of topics, both fundamental and applied, this anthology of papers from leading researchers in non-linear and complex dynamics honors the seminal contributions to the field made by Spanish professor Manual G. Velarde.
Addressing a hugely diverse range of topics, both fundamental and applied, this anthology of papers from leading researchers in non-linear and complex...
This book details the roles and applications of modeling approaches aimed at improving the usefulness of energy policy models in public decision making. It focuses on the development, validation, and applications of system dynamics and agent-based models.
This book details the roles and applications of modeling approaches aimed at improving the usefulness of energy policy models in public decision makin...
Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from observations to a model of the observed system, the author provides a general framework for the discussion of model building and evaluation across disciplines. Through many illustrative examples drawn from models in neuroscience, geosciences, and nonlinear electrical circuits, the concepts are exemplified in detail. Practical numerical methods for approximate evaluations of the path integral are explored, and their use in designing experiments and determining a model's consistency with observations is...
Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from observations to a model of the observed system, the author ...
