Kategoria BISAC: Science >> System Theory

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 technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours...

This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments. These topics include various aspects of dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and infinite-dimensional linear programming. In all, the work comprises 18 carefully selected papers written by experts in their respective fields.

Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems will be a valuable resource for all...

The science of complexity is concerned with the study of complex, adaptive systems. Its insights have in recent decades been applied with gusto by social scientists and other thinkers.

As research in and around the application of complexity science flourishes as never before, this new five-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing--and ever more complex--corpus of literature. Edited by leading scholars, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge...

This book presents results of projects carried out by both scientific and industry researchers into the techniques to help in maintenance, control, supervision and security of systems, taking into account the technical environmental and human factors.
This work is supported by the Scientific Group GIS 3SGS. It is a collaborative work from 13 partners (academic and industrial) who have come together to deal with security problems. The problems and techniques discussed mainly focus on stochastic and dynamic modeling, maintenance, forecasting, diagnosis, reliability, performance,...

A comprehensive exposition of the theory and techniques of fault identification and decision theory when applied to complex systems

• shows how modern computer analysis and diagnostic methods might be applied to launch vehicle design, checkout, and launch
• the space checkout system is a specialized area which is rarely explored in terms of the intelligent techniques and approaches involved
• an original view combining modern theory with well-established research material, inviting a contemporary approach to launch dynamics
• highlights the advanced...