Think Complexity
pdf | 1.32 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-1492040200 | Author: Allen B. Downey | Year: 2018

Maik Maurer, "Complexity Management in Engineering Design - a Primer"
English | 2017 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 3662534479 | PDF | 3,3 mb
The treatise supports understanding the phenomena of complexity in engineering, distinguishes complexity from other challenges and presents an overview of definitions and applied approaches.The historical background of complexity management is explained by highlighting the important epochs, their key actors and their discoveries, findings and developments. Knowing about the appearance of early system awareness in ancient Greece, the creation of mechanical philosophy in the 17th century and the discovery of classic physics enables the reader to better comprehend modern system sciences and management approaches.A classification of complexity management approaches by research fields indicates current focus areas and starting points for future discussions. In a comprehensive map, the classification points out mutual overlaps between engineering disciplines in terms of similar complexity management approaches.Finally, the treatise introduces a generic complexity management framework, which is based on structural management approaches.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 978-3110697803 | 490 pages | PDF | 7.62 MB
The amount of new information is constantly increasing, faster than our ability to fully interpret and utilize it to improve human experiences. Addressing this asymmetry requires novel and revolutionary scientific methods and effective human and artificial intelligence interfaces.

On Life - Cells, Genes, and the Evolution of Complexity
epub | 4.65 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0197604544 | Author: Franklin M. Harold | Year: 2021

English | 2021 | ISBN: 978-8770226493 | 180 pages | True pdf | 214.04 MB
Processes driving urban growth are inherently related to multiple socio-economic factors, making the analysis of urban form and functions a challenging and complicated endeavor. Several fundamental factors and contextual indicators contribute to identify the main determinants of urban growth; these include economic and demographic variables, the socio-spatial structure, territorial patterns, institutional, religious and cultural attributes. Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of economic resilience can support the adoption of explicit developmental policies addressing specificities and local weaknesses of regional contexts.

English | 2011 | ISBN: 0367425688 | 201 pages | pdf | 11.4 MB
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell

English | ISBN: 3039433687 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 52 MB

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367276267 | 229 pages | pdf | 2.15 MB
Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, regional, national and global scales and explores how embracing 'complexity thinking' can greatly improve the art of governance in all policy areas.

The Politics of Regime Complexity in International Derivatives Regulation
pdf | 1.53 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0198866070 | Author: Lucia Quaglia | Year: 2020

Eugeniusz Cyran, "Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 3110221497 | PDF | pages: 323 | 1.6 mb
The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei with respect to structurally defined complexities which pose varying demands on the licenser. It is assumed that the primitive licensing relation is that between a nucleus and its onset (O N). There are two main types of complexities concerning the onset position. Substantive complexity is an important aspect of phonological organisation at the melodic level, while the syllabic configurations in which the onset may be found are referred to under the heading of formal complexity.At the melodic level, complexity is defined in terms of the number of privative primes called elements. The asymmetries in the subsegmental representations of consonants and vowels are shown to play a pivotal role in understanding a number of phenomena, such as typological patterns, markedness effects, phonological processes, segmental inventories, and, what is most important, the model allows us to see a direct connection between phonological representations and processes. For example, the deletion of [g] in Welsh initial mutations is strictly related to the fact that the prime which crucially defines this object also happens to be the target of Soft Mutation.The complexity at the syllabic level is defined in terms of formal onset configurations called governing relations, of which some are easier to license than others. The formal complexity scale is not rerankable, and corresponds directly to the markedness of syllabic types. Since each formal configuration requires licensing from the following nucleus, syllable typology can be directly derived from the licensing strength of nuclei. The interaction between the higher prosodic organisation, for example, the level of the foot, and the syllabic leve