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  • Unifying Themes in Complex Systems X

    Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Systems

    Edited by Dan Braha, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Carlos Gershenson, Alfredo J. Morales, Les Kaufman, Elena N. Naumova, Ali A. Minai, Yaneer Bar-Yam ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS) offers a unique interdisciplinary venue for researchers from the physical and biological sciences, social sciences, psychology and cognitive science, engineering, medicine, human systems, and global systems.This proceedings volume gathers selected papers from the conference. The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) has been ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Nature's Services

    Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems

    by Sandra Postel, Kamaljit Bawa, Les Kaufman, Charles H. Peterson, Stephen Carpenter, David Tillman, Paul Dayton, Susan Alexander, Kalen Lagerquist, Larry Goulder, Pamela A. Matson, Harold A. Mooney, Rosamond Naylor, Peter Vitousek, John Harte, Stephen H. Schneider, Stephen L. Buchmann ...
    Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

    by Marco (Octavio) Aburto, Lilian (Naia) Alessa, Maria de los Angeles Carvajal, Brad Barr, Edward B. Barbier, Donald F. Boesch, James Boyd, Larry B. Crowder, Richard Cudney-Bueno, Tim Essington, Exequiel Ezcurra, Steve Ganey, Erica Goldman, Fred Guichard, Elliott Hazen, Kimberly Heiman, Leah Bunce Karrer, Les Kaufman, Ilse Kiessling, Ann Kinzig, Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey, Phil Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Don Maruska, Charlotte B. Mogensen, Maggie Mooney-Seus, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert O'Boyle, Jonathan Peacey, Linwood Pendleton, Charles H. Peterson, Garry Peterson, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Mary Ruckelshaus, Roly Russell, Paul Sandifer, Janis Searles, Janna Shackeroff, Jorge Torre, Lisa Wainger, Dean Wendt, Tana Worcester ...
    Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach.At ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... Read more

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  • Probably Approximately Correct

    Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

    by Leslie Valiant ...
    From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns -- such as the law of gravity -- our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, third edition

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... Read more

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  • The New Science of Cities

    by Michael Batty ...
    A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • xxAI - Beyond Explainable AI

    International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with ICML 2020, July 18, 2020, Vienna, Austria, Revised and Extended Papers

    Edited by Andreas Holzinger, Randy Goebel, Ruth Fong, Taesup Moon, Klaus-Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This is an open access book.Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better predictivity, they have become increasingly complex, at the expense of human interpretability (correlation vs. causality). The field of explainable AI (xAI) has emerged with the ... Read more

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  • Signals and Boundaries

    Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems

    by John H. Holland ...
    An overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mechanisms that generate their intricate signal/boundary hierarchies.Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems, for example, ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... Read more

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  • Risk Management and System Safety

    by Leonam dos Santos Guimarães ...
    This is a comprehensive and authoritarian book on the critical subject that various industrial, technological, managerial and social sectors are trying to find solution for. The ever evolving technology constantly places a new set of Risk and Safefy challange. The book address the concepts and models required to address this growing need of System Safety. ... Read more

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  • Data Analysis

    What Can Be Learned From the Past 50 Years

    by Peter J. Huber ...
    Series Book 874 - Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
    This book explores the many provocative questions concerning the fundamentals of data analysis. It is based on the time-tested experience of one of the gurus of the subject matter. Why should one study data analysis? How should it be taught? What techniques work best, and for whom? How valid are the results? How much data should be tested? Which machine languages should be used, if used at all? ... Read more

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