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61. Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems) | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(1999-10-29)
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Fish oblivious of ocean - the West's self-induced paradox |
62. Bifurcation and Chaos in Complex Systems, Volume 1 (Edited Series on Advances in Nonlinear Science and Complexity) | |
Hardcover: 400
Pages
(2006-09-27)
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63. The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory (Understanding Complex Systems) by Boris S. Kerner | |
Paperback: 682
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description The core of ths book presents a theory developed by the author to combine the recent insight into empirical data with mathematical models in freeway traffic research based on dynamical non-linear processes. Customer Reviews (1)
very partcular topic |
64. Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Approaching a Complex World by Constantino Tsallis | |
Hardcover: 382
Pages
(2009-03-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description Metaphors, generalizations and unifications are natural and desirable ingredients of the evolution of scientific theories and concepts. Physics, in particular, obviously walks along these paths since its very beginning. This book focuses on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, one of the greatest monuments of contemporary physics. Conceived more than 130 years ago by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs, the BG theory exhibits uncountable – some of them impressive – successes in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computational sciences, to name a few. Presently, more than two thousand publications, by over 1800 scientists around the world, have been dedicated to the nonextensive generalization. Remarkable applications have emerged, and its mathematical grounding is by now relatively well established. A pedagogical introduction to its concepts – nonlinear dynamics, extensivity of the nonadditive entropy, global correlations, generalization of the standard CLT’s, among others – is presented in this book as well as a selection of paradigmatic applications in various sciences together with diversified experimental verifications of some of its predictions. |
65. Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (KMCI Press) by Alex Bennet, David Bennet | |
Hardcover: 391
Pages
(2004-01-02)
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A Great Treatment od a Complex Topic
The Application of ICAS to KM Education
Breakthough for Organizational Thinking You can't read this book without disagreeing with the Bennets.They touch too many subjects too dear to too many of us.Still, give them credit for so many new ideas.They have laid the basis for a broad dialogue grounded in the credible view of complexity theory.The Bennets have sent out the invitations, they have set the table, who will join the feast? It is challenging for me to read this book.I constantly want to be able to discuss it with others.There is so much depth and breadth at the same time.Also, you may not be able to read it without being remorseful about your own organization, especially if you work in a complex enterprise.Recommend you scan the table of contents and then start reading.As the Bennets say, go to Chapter 19 if you need grounding in complexity theory.I found it useful to jump ahead and read chapters as my interest was peaked. Then go back and pick up from where you left off. The Bennets' research alone has immense value.This book should become a college text for graduate work.They are well grounded in complexity theory, nevertheless, they pull from many fields, disciplines, and theorists to build this new body of knowledge. The book would rock an MBA program. Drucker says that figuring this sort of thing out will determine how well we'll compete in this new century.The Bennets give us new frameworks for describing what we're working with and how we can organize for breakthroughs on multiple levels.In the meantime, hopefully a leader at Homeland Security is reading this book.
Outstanding Book for Executives in a Competitive Environment
Outstanding Book for Executives in a Competitive Environment |
66. Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance (Environment & Policy) by Thomas Flüeler | |
Hardcover: 357
Pages
(2006-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. Traditionally, it has been considered as mainly a challenge to scientists and engineers to develop technical "solutions" to specific problems. But increasingly these narrow solutions have been enlarged by wider societal considerations such as ethics, public involvement, control and retrievability – needs that have in the meanwhile been recognised by the nuclear community, at least in a general way. In this book, we analyse motives for a broad discourse as well as suggest prerequisites to launch it. The author attempts to give a novel, empirically based and technically sound treatment of fundamental issues in long-term management and governance. Written to be accessible to a wide selection of the interested public, the study proposes a combination of technical design issues, analysis methods and institutional backup in a dynamic procedure, and with involvement at all levels of political, commercial and social life. |
67. Adaptive Networks: Theory, Models and Applications (Understanding Complex Systems) | |
Hardcover: 332
Pages
(2009-08-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description With adaptive, complex networks, the evolution of the network topology and the dynamical processes on the network are equally important and often fundamentally entangled. Recent research has shown that such networks can exhibit a plethora of new phenomena which are ultimately required to describe many real-world networks. Some of those phenomena include robust self-organization towards dynamical criticality, formation of complex global topologies based on simple, local rules, and the spontaneous division of "labor" in which an initially homogenous population of network nodes self-organizes into functionally distinct classes. These are just a few. This book is a state-of-the-art survey of those unique networks. In it, leading researchers set out to define the future scope and direction of some of the most advanced developments in the vast field of complex network science and its applications. |
68. Nasdaq Market Simulation: Insights on a Major Market from the Science of Complex Adaptive Systems (Complex Systems and Interdisciplinary Science) by Vincent Darley, Alexander V. Outkin | |
Hardcover: 168
Pages
(2007-03-21)
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69. Visualizing Project Management Models &Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems - 2005 publication by Kevin Forsberg, Hal Mooz, Howard Cotterman | |
Hardcover:
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(2005-01-01)
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Better try visualize what kind of book you need!
5 stars? Are you kidding?
A practical guide, full of insights
Call to Arms
Horrible - A Waste of Time and Paper! "At each level, the DA&R process is driven by higher level requirements, constaints of approved baselines such as the utilities provided to the structure and the influences of users and stakeholders at the system level and at every level of decomposition to the level under construction." No, I am not making this up, this is what these authors pass off as writing. In my opinion, these two authors, and some of the reviewers that gave this book high marks, are in a profession that needs to build its reputation by making what they do seem complex and scientific.Absolute bunk! ... Read more |
70. From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems) | |
Paperback: 533
Pages
(1993-04-13)
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71. Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems by James A. Highsmith III | |
Paperback: 392
Pages
(1999-12)
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Keeping cool in the demanding e-development world
"Rock climbing, Joel ! Rock climbing !" There is some meat in this book, but you've got to nibble around a whole lot of loess to get it.
Leadership and collaboration One of the vital components of Adaptive Software Development is clearly articulated Project Mission, Shared Vision and Clear Focus, and it is the responsibility of the whole team to create the mission and use it on a day-to-day basis as an alignment tool to keep the common direction. I would also highly recommend "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn in addition to this book.
MustRead It's hard to express just how good this book is.I can't recommend it highly enough.If you're interested in the currents of thought on software development variously labeled "extreme" or "agile," then I believe you will find Adaptive Software Development to be very near to their sources. The author distinguishes a "complex" project from one that is merely "complicated."As one might well imagine, he would classify a project to develop the avionics software for the NASA space shuttle as complicated--but not complex:its goal is well defined and attainable by applying the stable laws of Newtonian physics.Development of an internet-based product for the consumer marketplace on the other hand is complex because one might expect almost anything to change during the course of such a project:target technology, competitive offerings, financing, marketing strategy, etc. Complexity arises from moving fast in a continually changing environment. Adaptive Software Development comprises (1) The Adaptive Conceptual Model proposes that a software development organization is a complex adaptive system like a marketplace or a flock of birds.According to the theory, CASs composed of independent agents acting for themselves without centralized control can under proper circumstances develop "emergent" capabilities exceeding the mere sum of the capabilities of the individual agents. It is further proposed that only emergent capabilities are powerful enough to tame complexity.Software development organizations aspiring to do so must create the proper circumstances for the emergence of superior capabilities.The Development Model and the Management Model show the way. (2) The Adaptive Development Model has three phases:Speculate, Collaborate, Learn.A typical project is expected to cycle through the phases several times.The output of each successive cycle converges on the final product of the project. The beginning of each cycle is called "speculation" in preference to "planning" to reject the command-and-control philosophy that stifles emergence.ASD establishes a general direction, hypothesizes a product with a set of components, then puts the developers to work.Tasks are not specified in the ASD project plan--only the components to be completed by the end of the cycle. Collaboration is the phase where development occurs.Under conditions of "diversity, rich relationships, unfettered information flow, and good leadership (p. 45)" collaboration can be the crucible of emergent capability.To foster this emergence, the project leader must keep the team "poised at the edge of chaos," imposing just enough rigor on the collaboration to keep it from spinning out of control.To impose any more rigor would stifle emergence.Borrowing from Ralph Stacey, Mr. Highsmith cites five dimensions for measuring how closely a project team approaches chaos.The goal is to structure collaboration so that it has just enough--but never too much--of each of the following: 1.Information Flow Mr. Highsmith observes that adaptation, not optimization, is the key to success in a complex ecosystem.Software developers adapt by learning.ASD ends every cycle with specific collaborative learning activities including customer focus groups, technical reviews, post-mortems, etc.The adaptations resulting from the learning phase keep the output of subsequent cycles converging on a successful product. (3) ASD gives to the project leader responsibility for establishing the conditions under which superior capabilities emerge from the collaboration of team members.This responsibility entails "the ability to help teams to understand the project's mission, to stand back and let the group struggle with mistakes, to encourage learning, to balance the need for flexibility and rigor, and to force decisions onto the group (pp. 209-210)." To balance successfully between flexibility and rigor--poised at the edge of chaos--managers of complex projects must attend primarily to two structural elements:workstate and network. ASD manages workSTATE in preference to workFLOW.Instead of monitoring the completion of tasks, the project leader tracks the completion of components.Tasks are not necessarily prescribed.Team members decide for themselves how to build the components.To scale up to large projects, workstate management defines explicit milestones for each component describing its degree of completion.Progress is tracked against these milestones. The emergence of superior capability through collaboration depends on the communication network of the collaborators.For smaller, collocated teams with sufficient interpersonal skills, it will emerge informally.For larger teams, ASD prescribes a conscious effort to build it and to maintain it.The remote nodes of a virtual team are all too likely to fall into a state of insufficient interaction. The collaboration network should provide team members just a little more information than they need, stopping just short of overload.Information clutter must be avoided.Content must not be provided without context (author, revision date, approval status, for example).The formal properties of the collaboration network must be identified and tuned to the needs of the complex project.A "collaboration service layer" of tools (mostly web-based) and practices must be installed.A new role, collaboration facilitator, extending the role of JAD facilitator, should be created to tend the collaboration network. Is a software development organization really a complex adaptive system?No matter. Mr. Highsmith has ably used the theory of complex adaptive systems as a powerful metaphor for unifying many existing ideas about managing complex software development and for generating new ones--with at least as much validity as older theories have been applied in the past.Stimulating and refreshing.A must-read by any standard.
Solid theory behind the Agile movement He then persuasively uses the science and language of complex adaptive system theory to provide new conceptual models to guide complex software development projects.His presentation is refreshingly well thought out, synthesizing much of the best ideas in science and business management in the past decade to software development. Highsmith succeeds is providing a theoretical basis for the Agile methodologies that are sprouting up everywhere (XP being the best known). If you are looking for specific best practices of software development, look elsewhere. But if you want to understand the true nature of software development as well as principles in harnessing change as a competitive advantage, you will not find a better book.I couldn't recommend it any more strongly. ... Read more |
72. Complex Systems in Biomedicine | |
Paperback: 292
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is a preliminary contribution to a mathematical research field which is growing impetuously and will attract increasing attention from medical researchers in the years to come. In this book the authors have collected the contribution from several Italian research groups that are successfully working on this fascinating and challenging field. Every chapter will deal with a specific subfield, with the aim of providing an overview of the subject and an account of the most recent research results. |
73. Complex Population Dynamics: Nonlinear Modeling in Ecology, Epidemiology and Genetics (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems) by Bernd Blasius | |
Hardcover: 250
Pages
(2007-09-24)
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74. Complex Dynamics: Advanced System Dynamics in Complex Variables (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering) by Vladimir G. Ivancevic, Tijana T. Ivancevic | |
Paperback: 810
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Readers learn to predict and control low- and high-dimensional as well as continuous- and discrete-time nonlinear systems dynamics in complex variables. In the final chapter, all the previously developed methods are used to present the "Holy Grail" of modern physical and cosmological science, the search for the "theory of everything" and the "true" cosmological dynamics. |
75. Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) | |
Paperback: 471
Pages
(2009-09-30)
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Too Modular |
76. Stepping in Wholes: Introduction to Complex Systems by Jim Ollhoff, Michael Walcheski | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2002-06)
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worth the read
Interesting Book for the Novice |
77. Essential Issues in SOC Design: Designing Complex Systems-on-Chip | |
Paperback: 404
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book originated from a workshop held at the DATE 2005 conference, namely Designing Complex SOCs. State-of-the-art in issues related to System-on-Chip (SoC) design by leading experts in the fields, it covers IP development, verification, integration, chip implementation, testing and software. It contains valuable academic and industrial examples for those involved with the design of complex SOCs. |
78. Complex System Reliability: Multichannel Systems with Imperfect Fault Coverage (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering) by Albert Myers | |
Hardcover: 238
Pages
(2010-09-23)
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79. Engineering Complex Systems With Models and Objects by David W. Oliver, Timothy P. Kelliher, James G., Jr. Keegan | |
Hardcover: 325
Pages
(1997-01)
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80. Language as a Complex System: Interdisciplinary Approaches by Gemma Bel-Enguix | |
Hardcover: 292
Pages
(2010-02-01)
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