Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Couverture rigide

 
9789814463263: Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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ISBN 10 : 9814463264 ISBN 13 : 9789814463263
Editeur : Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Questions of values, ontologies, ethics, aesthetics, discourse, origins, language, literature, and meaning do not lend themselves readily, or traditionally, to equations, probabilities, and models. However, with the increased adoption of natural science tools in economics, anthropology, and political science--to name only a few social scientific fields highlighted in this volume--quantitative methods in the humanities are becoming more common.

The theory of complexity holds significant promise for better understanding social and human phenomena based on interactions among the participating "agents," whatever they may be: a thought, a person, a conversation, a sentence, or an email. Such systems can exhibit phase transitions, feedback loops, self-organization, and emergent properties. These dynamic systems lend themselves naturally to the kind of analysis made possible by models and simulations developed with complex science tools. This volume offers a tour of quantitative analyses, models, and simulations of humanities and social science phenomena that have been historically the purview of qualitative methods.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul A. Youngman is associate professor of German studies at Washington and Lee University, USA, and a faculty associate at the Complex Systems Institute, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), USA. He is author of Black Devil and Iron Angel, an analysis of the aesthetic reception of the railway in nineteenth-century Germany, and We Are the Machine, a study of computers, the Internet, and information in contemporary Germany. Prof. Youngman has also authored numerous articles on technology and culture.

Mirsad Hadzikadic has over 30 years of information technology experience combining business and academic environments. He currently serves as the founding director of the Complex Systems Institute at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Hadzikadic's research interests include data mining, health informatics, complexity theory, brain informatics, and a systems view of policies in financial services, economics, defense, healthcare, and political science.

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Éditeur
Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9814463264
ISBN 13 
9789814463263
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Éditeur
Youngman Paul A., Hadzikadic Mirsad
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Taylor & Francis
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