Why Society is a Complex Matter Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science
Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Society: a Complex Problem
- On the Road: Predicting traffic
- Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement
- Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions
- Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime
- The Social Web: Networks and their failures.- Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics
- After the Crash: Economic and financial systems
- Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation
- Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system
- The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict
- Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project