Realism and Complexity in Social Science, Williams, Malcolm

Автор: Silva
Название: A Planner`s Encounter with Complexity
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Описание: Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in A Planner's Encounter with Complexity, we argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner's creation. Above all, we argue that recognizing the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world and our environment, on planning theory and practice, and on the raison d'A?tre of the planners that we are. A Planner's Encounter with Complexity is organized into 17 chapters. It begins with the interplay of planning and complexity from the perspective of contemporary planning theory. It continues by critically assessing planning theory and practice in the light of the interdisciplinary debate regarding complexity thinking. As the book progresses, it positions itself ever closer to the perspective of complexity thinking, looking at the planning discipline 'from the outside in', clarifying the facets of complexity and its importance in planning. Finally, conceptual and theoretical developments towards more applied examples are identified in order to see the interplay of planning and complexity in practice. This book emphasizes the importance of complexity in planning, clarifies many of the concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity, and proposes new ideas and methods for planning.

Автор: Adamatzky
Название: Shortest Path Solvers. From Software to Wetware
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Описание: Software implementations include distance-vector algorithms for distributed path computation in dynamics networks, parallel solutions of the constrained shortest path problem, and application of the shortest path solutions in gathering robotic swarms.

Автор: Alistarh
Название: Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing
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Описание: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2017. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions.

Автор: La Porte, Todd R.
Название: Organized social complexity
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One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately.

The studies in this book reevaluate traditional assumptions. Part One defines organized social complexity and discusses the effects of technological change. Part Two assesses national planning and systems analysis, approaches supposed to provide direct control over social matters. Part Three describes methodological aspects and research applications, and Part Four provides retrospective and prospective views of theories on social complexity.

Originally published in 1975.

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Автор: Ingo Alth?fer; Ning Cai; Gunter Dueck; Levon H. Kh
Название: Numbers, Information and Complexity
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Описание: His main areas of research are represented in the three sections, `Numbers and Combinations`, `Information Theory (Channels and Networks, Combinatorial and Algebraic Coding, Cryptology, with the related fields Data Compression, Entropy Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, Probability and Statistics)`, and `Complexity`.

Автор: E. B?rger; G. Hasenjaeger; D. R?dding
Название: Logic and Machines: Decision Problems and Complexity
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Автор: K. Kudo; E.R. Nakamura; O. Yamakawa; Y. Tamagawa
Название: Complexity and Diversity
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Описание: Nonlinear complex open systems show great diversity in the process of self-organization, and that diversity increases as complexity increases.

Автор: Osamu Watanabe
Название: Kolmogorov Complexity and Computational Complexity
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Описание: The mathematical theory of computation has given rise to two important ap- proaches to the informal notion of "complexity": Kolmogorov complexity, usu- ally a complexity measure for a single object such as a string, a sequence etc., measures the amount of information necessary to describe the object.

Автор: Giancarlo Bongiovanni; Giorgio Gambosi; Rosella Pe
Название: Algorithms and Complexity
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Описание: The papers in this volume were presented at the Fourth Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2000). The conference took place on March 1-3, 2000, in Rome (Italy), at the conference center of the University of Rome \La Sapienza". This conference was born in 1990 as a national meeting to be held every three years for Italian researchers in algorithms, data structures, complexity, and parallel and distributed computing. Due to a signi cant participation of foreign reaserchers, starting from the second conference, CIAC evolved into an international conference. In response to the call for papers for CIAC 2000, there were 41 subm- sions, from which the program committee selected 21 papers for presentation at the conference. Each paper was evaluated by at least three program committee members. In addition to the selected papers, the organizing committee invited Giorgio Ausiello, Narsingh Deo, Walter Ruzzo, and Shmuel Zaks to give plenary lectures at the conference. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of the submitted papers, to the program committee members and the referees, to the organizing committee, and to the plenary lecturers who accepted our invitation.

Автор: Ivan Zelinka; Guanrong Chen
Название: Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Dynamics and Complex Networks
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Описание: In this book, based on many years of intensive research of the authors, is proposing novel ideas about advancing evolutionary dynamics towards new phenomena including many new topics, even the dynamics of equivalent social networks.

Автор: Room
Название: Agile Actors on Complex Terrains
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Описание: This book brings together complexity science, sociological theory and political economy and applies them to empirical areas of public policy. It shows how complexity science can illuminate the non-linear dynamics of the social world, but only if understood by reference to the unequal distribution of power and advantage.

Автор: Williams, Malcolm,
Название: Realism and complexity in social science /
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Описание: Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought, in scientific realism, complexity science, probability theory and social research methodology.