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  • The Automation of Society is Next: How to Survive the Digital Revolution

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    The explosion in data volumes, processing power, and Artificial Intelligence, known as the "digital revolution", has driven our world to a dangerous point. One thing is increasingly clear: We are at a crossroads. We need to make decisions. We must re-invent our future.[This book includes 32 color illustrations.]After the automation of factories and the creation of self-driving cars, the automation ... Read more

    $11.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Next Civilization

    Digital Democracy and Socio-Ecological Finance - How to Avoid Dystopia and Upgrade Society by Digital Means

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    "Digital transformation" sounds harmless, given that the explosion in data volumes, processing power and Artificial Intelligence has driven humanity and the entire world to a point of no return. We will surely see a new civilization, but we are at a crossroads. The future needs to be re-invented, decisions must be taken.After the automation of factories and the creation of self-driving cars, the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Social Self-Organization

    Agent-Based Simulations and Experiments to Study Emergent Social Behavior

    Edited by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the long-standing question, what are the forces that keep our world together. However, the social challenges of humanity in the 21st century ranging from the financial crises to the impacts of globalization, require us to make fast progress in our understanding of how society works, and how ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Towards Digital Enlightenment

    Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution

    Edited by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others.Meanwhile the threats have diversified and tech companies have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Quantitative Sociodynamics

    Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena. Unfortunately, the ?rst edition appeared at a quite prohibitive price. This was one reason to make these chapters available again by a new edition. The other reason is that, in the meantime, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures. Humans are on the verge of evolving from consumers to prosumers, and old, entrenched theories – in particular sociological and economic ones – are falling prey to these rapid developments. The original assumptions on which they are based are being questioned. Each year we produce as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks

    Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle

    by Luigi Ambrosio, Alberto Bressan, Dirk Helbing, Axel Klar, Enrique Zuazua, Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In recent years flows in networks have attracted the interest of many researchers from different areas, e.g. applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, economists. The main reason for this ubiquity is the wide and diverse range of applications, such as vehicular traffic, supply chains, blood flow, irrigation channels, data networks and others. This book presents an extensive set of notes by ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System

    A Participatory Framework to Promote Sustainability

    Edited by Marcus M. Dapp, Dirk Helbing, Stefan Klauser ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system.We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science team at ETH ... Read more

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  • Social Phenomena

    From Data Analysis to Models

    Edited by Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Limits and Beyond

    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    by Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leadership 2030

    The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future

    by Georg Vielmetter, Yvonne Sell ...
    Tomorrow’s changes are coming. With guidance from this invaluable resource, you can prepare for them today!The tumultuous changes in the business world during the last decade have forced too many to focus on the short term, rushing to figure out how to produce quarterly profits in chaotic conditions. As a result, the longer view is often obscured, leaving businesses so busy fighting today’s ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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