System Theory category: 437 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity...
The Climate Change Playbook
22 Systems Thinking Games for More Effective Communication about Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Advocates and teachers often find it difficult to communicate the complexities of climate change, because the people they are trying to reach hold so many mistaken assumptions. They assume, for example, that when climate change becomes an obvious threat to our everyday lives, there will still be time...
Ubiquity
Why Catastrophes Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Critically acclaimed science journalist, Mark Buchanan tells the fascinating story of the discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of our world, which explains why catastrophes-- both natural and human-- happen.
Scientists have recently discovered a new...
X-Events
The Collapse of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness
“Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting...
The Second Law of Economics
Energy, Entropy, and the Origins of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production. These fundamental natural laws are familiar to most of us when applied to the evolution of stars, biological processes, or the working of an internal combustion engine, but what about industrial economies and wealth production,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The book will focus on exploiting state of the art research in semantic web and web science. The rapidly evolving world-wide-web has led to revolutionary changes in the whole of society. The research and development of the semantic web covers a number of global standards of the web and cutting edge...
by Robert Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from...
by Bernie MacIsaac, Roy Langton
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Major changes in gas turbine design, especially in the design and complexity of engine control systems, have led to the need for an up to date, systems-oriented treatment of gas turbine propulsion. Pulling together all of the systems and subsystems associated with gas turbine engines in aircraft and...
Conflict and Complexity
Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric...
Banking Beyond Banks and Money
A Guide to Banking Services in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Do you know how banking and money will look like in the new digital age?
This book collects the voices of leading scholars, entrepreneurs, policy makers and consultants who, through their expertise and keen analytical skills, are best positioned to picture from various angles the ongoing technological...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy. It focuses on non-traditional threats in a landscape that has been described as transnational in nature and incorporates natural disasters, gang violence, extremism and terrorism,...
Distributed-Order Dynamic Systems
Stability, Simulation, Applications and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Distributed-order differential equations, a generalization of fractional calculus, are of increasing importance in many fields of science and engineering from the behaviour of complex dielectric media to the modelling of nonlinear systems.
This Brief will broaden the toolbox available to researchers...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems discusses the phenomenon of parametric resonance and its occurrence in mechanical systems, vehicles, motorcycles, aircraft and marine craft, along micro-electro-mechanical systems. The contributors provides an introduction to the root causes of this phenomenon...
Enterprise Interoperability
I-ESA'12 Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In a fast changing world governed by innovative Enterprise Services and the Future Internet, the issue of Enterprise Interoperability is no longer limited to the interoperation of systems within a single company, but has become a much greater multi-view issue of interoperability throughout a Network...