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Why Society is a Complex Matter (Record no. 27046)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642290008
978-3-642-29000-8
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Classification number QC1-999
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Classification number 621
Edition number 23
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2012.
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Personal name Ball, Philip.
Relator term author.
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Title Why Society is a Complex Matter
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Philip Ball.
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Edition statement 1.
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Extent 80p. 35 illus. in color.
Other physical details online resource.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc 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 that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. 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 some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems such as conflict, disease, financial instability, environmental despoliation and poverty, while avoiding unintended policy consequences. It could give us the foresight to anticipate and ameliorate crises, and to begin tackling some of the most intractable problems of the twenty-first century.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences
General subdivision Data processing.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences
General subdivision Methodology.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Complexity.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economic Systems.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Communication Studies.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9783642289996
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29000-8
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Item type E-Book
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2014-04-23AUM Main Library2014-04-23 2014-04-23 E-Book   AUM Main Library621
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