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The Engine of Complexity
Author | : John E. Mayfield |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231535281 |
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The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, structures, organizations, and social orders can and do arise based on information theory and computational science. Intended for the intellectually adventuresome, this book challenges and rewards readers with a nuanced understanding of evolution and complexity that offers consistent, durable, and coherent explanations for major aspects of our life experiences. Numerous examples throughout the book illustrate evolution and complexity formation in action and highlight the core function of computation lying at the work's heart.
The Engine of Complexity
Author | : John Mayfield |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231163040 |
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The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, structures, organizations, and social orders can and do arise based on information theory and computational science. Intended for the intellectually adventuresome, this book challenges and rewards readers with a nuanced understanding of evolution and complexity that offers consistent, durable, and coherent explanations for major aspects of our life experiences. Numerous examples throughout the book illustrate evolution and complexity formation in action and highlight the core function of computation lying at the work's heart.
Complexity
Author | : M. Mitchell Waldrop |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781504059145 |
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“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Cosmic Evolution
Author | : Eric J. Chaisson,Eric Chaisson |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-02-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674009875 |
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Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the ways matter, life, and radiation interact and change with time. He designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the origin and evolution of all material structures.
Embracing Complexity in Design
Author | : Katerina Alexiou,Jeffrey Johnson,Theodore Zamenopoulos |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781135228781 |
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Collating state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities, this book is essential reading for those studying€complexity or design, €as it touches on€different themes and domains such as€architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.
Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems
Author | : Adrian Bejan,Eden Mamut |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1999-04-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0792357256 |
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A comprehensive assessment of the methodologies of thermodynamic optimization, exergy analysis and thermoeconomics, and their application to the design of efficient and environmentally sound energy systems. The chapters are organized in a sequence that begins with pure thermodynamics and progresses towards the blending of thermodynamics with other disciplines, such as heat transfer and cost accounting. Three methods of analysis stand out: entropy generation minimization, exergy (or availability) analysis, and thermoeconomics. The book reviews current directions in a field that is both extremely important and intellectually alive. Additionally, new directions for research on thermodynamics and optimization are revealed.
Managing Complexity in Organizations
Author | : Christoph Nedopil,Ulrich Steger,Wolfgang Amann |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781137285706 |
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Combining rigorous academic research with the latest practical tools and techniques, this book explores the growing area of complextity management in business. Through a range of high quality international cases leading authors help students to understand how to manage organizations in unpredictable and complex business environments.
Complexity and the Economy
Author | : W. Brian Arthur |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199334292 |
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A collection of previous published papers by the author on the subject of complexity economics, appearing from the 1980s to the present.