Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems - Couverture rigide

Northrop, Robert B.

 
9781439839010: Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1439839018 ISBN 13 : 9781439839010
Editeur : CRC Press Inc, 2010

Synopsis

The boundaries between simple and complicated, and complicated and complex system designations are fuzzy and debatable, even using quantitative measures of complexity. However, if you are a biomedical engineer, a biologist, physiologist, economist, politician, stock market speculator, or politician, you have encountered complex systems. Furthermore, your success depends on your ability to successfully interact with and manage a variety of complex systems. In order not to be blindsided by unexpected results, we need a systematic, comprehensive way of analyzing, modeling, and simulating complex systems to predict non-anticipated outcomes.

In its engaging first chapters, the book introduces complex systems, Campbell's Law, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, and mathematics necessary for conversations in complex systems. Subsequent chapters illustrate concepts via commonly studied biological mechanisms. The final chapters focus on higher-level complexity problems, and introduce complexity in economic systems.

Designed as a reference for biologists and biological engineers, Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems lends itself to use in a classroom course to introduce advanced students studying biomedical engineering, biophysics, or physiology to complex systems. Engaging and illustrative, this book aids scientists and decision makers in managing biological complexity and complex systems.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert B. Northrop is Professor Emeritus and the former Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Connecticut.

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Éditeur
CRC Press Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1439839018
ISBN 13 
9781439839010
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
552
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1138113336 ISBN 13 :  9781138113336
Editeur : Routledge, 2017
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