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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM
John Sterman , and John D. Sterman Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 007238915X |
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The leading authority on system dynamics explains this approach to organizational problem solving, emphasizing simulation models to understand issues such as fluctuating sales, market growth and stagnation, the reliability of forecasts and the rationality of business decision-making. The CD includes modeling software from Vensim, ithink, and PowerSim.Customer Reviews:
One of the best SD books with connection to practical work.......2007-10-06
Excellent.......2007-08-29
buen libro.......2007-02-22
Amazing.......2007-01-12
Edward Garrity, Professor of Information Systems.......2007-01-04
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Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series: PH Signal Integrity Library)
Chris Rowen Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131455370 |
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Chip designers, managers, programmers, investors: READ THIS.......2004-07-09
Investors and managers should read Chapters 1,2,3 which analyze the trends and issues in System-on-Chip design, and motivate the use of a new approach that combines extensible processors with powerful software to create software and hardware in parallel, faster, and with less engineering effort. They should also read Chapter 8, which makes insightful prognostications about a future in which many chips will have hundreds of CPUs, or more.
If those Chapters describe What's Happening, and Why We Must Change, Chapters 4-7 explore How to Do It, and should be read by both hardware and software engineers who build embedded systems. The real-world examples (from Tensilica) and advice offer strong support that this approach actually works.
Although it certainly promotes the Tensilica viewpoint, it is well-motivated, well-referenced to the last 20 years of computing research, and has good comparisons with other approaches, i.e., it is not just a commerical sales-pitch. The book is clearly written (modulo a few typos), and can be used by readers of varying depth of experience and knowledge.
Computers have improved drastically in the last two decades, but we humans have not improved in speed or memory, and we are limited in the number of things we can really grasp at once. Real computing breakthroughs happen when people invent cost-effective ways to raise the level of abstraction, so that our brains can ignore low-level details and focus on larger issues.
Increasing CPU performance enabled people to shift some work from assembly code, to higher-level languages like FORTRAN or C, to early scripting languages [like UNIX's shell and awk], and then to even higher-level languages like TCL, Perl, PHP, Python, etc. These have enabled large numbers of people to build their own Web-based applications. It is simply unimaginable that we'd have all those applications if people had nothing but assembler and C.
I think this book describes a similar kind of breakthrough, which drastically raises the level of abstraction in concurrent hardware/software design, to take advantage of the huge nubmers of transistors now available at low cost. This doesn't mean that other design approaches will disappear (just as C hasn't gone away), but I do believe the approach described here will find increasingly wide usage, and it will certainly change the landscape. Chris is an old colleage from MIPS and SGI, and I always appreciated his insights, and this book integrates them into a very useful whole.
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Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo
Vanessa Stevens Colella , Eric Klopfer , and Mitchel Resnick Manufacturer: Teachers College Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0807740829 |
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Turtles for all.......2006-03-28
Good book but not perfect..........2006-01-03
Great guide to modeling systems!.......2002-02-20
Excellent guide to modeling systems!.......2002-02-18
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Modeling Chemical Systems Using Cellular Automata
Lemont B. Kier , Paul G. Seybold , and Chao-Kun Cheng Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402036574 |
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Molecular Modeling using Cellular Automata provides a practical introduction to an exciting modeling paradigm for complex systems. The book first discusses the nature of scientific inquiry using models and simulations, and then describes the nature of cellular automata models. It then gives detailed descriptions, with examples and exercises, of how cellular automata models can be used in the study of a wide variety chemical, physical, and biochemical phenomena. Topics covered include models of water itself, solution phenomena, solution interactions with stationary systems, first- and second-order kinetic phenomena, enzyme kinetics, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and atomic and molecular excited-state kinetics. The student experiences these systems through hands-on examples and guided studies, and there is room for further original experimentation using the accompanying computer program (on CD Rom).
This book is the first of its kind: a textbook and a laboratory manual about cellular automata modeling of common systems in chemistry. It is not only a text, but includes a CD Rom which allows readily-assimilated, real-time experience with the methodology and practice of cellular automata simulations. The book is designed to be used as a text in undergraduate courses dealing with complex systems and/or as a computational supplement to laboratory courses taught at the undergraduate level.
The book includes:
- Compact descriptions of a large variety of physical and chemical phenomena
- An accompanying program (CD) for the study of these phenomena
- Illustrative examples of simulations, with exercises for further study
- An instructor's manual for use of the program
The book will be of great value in undergraduate courses in chemistry, physics, biology, applied mathematics, and bioinformatics, and as a supplement for laboratory courses in introductory chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical engineering and other courses dealing with statistical and dynamic systems. It allows the exploration of a wide range of dynamic phenomena, many of which are not normally accessible within conventional laboratory settings due to limitations of time, cost, and experimental equipment.
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The Complex Networks of Economic Interactions: Essays in Agent-Based Economics and Econophysics (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540287264 |
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This book contains high-quality multi-disciplinary research contributions addressing theoretical and computational aspects of interaction and coordination of economic agents. It focuses on emergent phenomena and collective behavior in economic activities as well as on the development of analytical and computational tools in models with heterogeneous agents. The contributions are not restricted to any particular school of thought, but are based on rigorous theoretical models and supported by experimental validation.
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Modeling of Complex Systems: Seventh Granada Lectures, Granada, Spain, 2-7 September 2002 (AIP Conference Proceedings)
Manufacturer: American Institute of Physics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0735401217 |
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The Granada Seminar is defined as a small topical conference whose pedagogical effort is especially aimed at young researchers. In fact, one interesting aspect of this meeting is the opportunity given to the young scientists to present their results and to discuss their problems with leading specialists. This year's seminar mainly covered the modeling of complex systems (with some emphasis on its computational aspects). This timely topic importantly relies on the creative use of computers and it is of interest in an increasing number of fields, from chemistry, biology and geology to engineering, communications and economics. Each topic is comprehensively described. The ‘Granada Lectures’ help introduce the beginner to novel advances in statistical physics and to the creative use of computers in scientific research. They serve as a work of reference for teachers, students and researchers.
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Modeling Complex Systems (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)
Nino Boccara Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0387404627 |
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This book explores the process of modeling complex systems in the widest sense of that term, drawing on examples from such diverse fields as ecology, epidemiology, sociology, seismology, as well as economics. It also provides the mathematical tools for studying the dynamics of these systems. Boccara takes a carefully inductive approach in defining what it means for a system to be "complex" (and at the same time addresses the equally elusive concept of emergent properties). This is the first text on the subject to draw comprehensive conclusions from such a wide range of analogous phenomena.Customer Reviews:
A very good intructory book.......2007-04-02
A good comprehensive presentation of the state of the art.......2004-11-27
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Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind
Klaus Mainzer Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540002391 |
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Chaos is cropping up everywhere these days. As it becomes ever more apparent that Newtonian mechanics is inadequate for modeling nonlinear systems, or systems that have too many degrees of freedom to handle easily, researchers in all fields are turning toward nonlinear dynamics as a refreshing alternative. This is a paradigm shift à la Kuhn, and Klaus Mainzer guides us through it with an astounding range of historical and scientific knowledge. From quantum physics to consciousness to economics, Mainzer shows us how thinking complexly can solve problems over which standard, linear thinking continually stumbles. Instead of simplifying, however, Mainzer revels in the complexity of complexity, so the reader should be prepared for advanced concepts in such varied fields as mathematics, physics, and economics. Difficult, but worthwhile reading.Book Description
The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. And it is now also recognized that many if not most of our social, ecological, economical and political problems are essentially of a global, complex and nonlinear nature. And it is now further accepted than any holistic perspective of the human mind and brain can hardly be achieved by any other approach. In this wide-ranging, scholarly but very concise treatment, physicist, computer scientist and philosopher Klaus Mainzer discusses, in essentially nontechnical language, the common framework behind these ideas and challenges. Emphasis is given to the evolution of new structures in natural and cultural systems and we are lead to see clearly how the new integrative approach can give insights not available from traditional reductionistic methods. The fifth edition enlarges and revises almost all sections and supplements an entirely new chapter on the complexity of economic systems.
From the reviews of the fourth edition:
"This book is ambitious, incredibly erudite with 22 pages of references, and is indisputably clearly and beautifully written and illustrated. It is perfectly suited to a first course on the science of complexity. Even beginners and young graduate students will have something to learn from this book." (Andre Hautot, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (3), 2005)
"All-in-all, this highly recommended book is a wonderful resource for intuitive basic ideas in the need of rigorous formulation." (Albert A. Mullin, Zentralblatt MATH, vol. 1046, 2004)
"Readers of this book will enjoy Mainzer's exposition, which is based on a tight coupling between classical and historical concepts from Plato and Aristotle to modern, mathematical and physical developments . Every chapter begins with a section designed to orient the reader to the perspective of philosophical developments through the ages pertinent to the topic at hand. The author takes pains to point out essential differences between classical science and the science of complexity. Thinking in Complexity is an outstandingly readable book." (Anutosh Moitra, The Industrial Physicist, August/September, 2004)
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very difficult subject; but intriguing ideas.......2006-01-19
understandable highest level science with cultural backg.......1999-06-16
Full but turgid catalogue of complexity phenomena.......1998-02-25
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Modeling for Reliability Analysis: Markov Modeling for Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, and Supportability Analyses of Complex Systems (IEEE Press ... on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems)
Jan Pukite , and Paul Pukite Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0780334825 |
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"Markov modeling has long been accepted as a fundamental and powerful technique for the fault tolerance analysis of mission-critical applications. However, the elaborate computations required have often made Markov modeling too time-consuming to be of practical use on these complex systems. With this hands-on tool, designers can use the Markov modeling technique to analyze safety, reliability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness factors in the full range of complex systems in use today.Featuring ground-breaking simulation software and a comprehensive reference manual, MARKOV MODELING FOR RELIABILITY ANALYSIS helps system designers surmount the mathematical computations that have previously prevented effective reliability analysis. The text and software compose a valuable self-study tool that is complete with detailed explanations, examples, and a library of Markov models that can be used for experiments and as derivations for new simulation models. The book details how these analyses are conducted, while providing hands-on instruction on how to develop reliability models for the full range of system configurations.
Computer-Aided Rate Modeling and Simulation (CARMS) software is an integrated modeling tool that includes a diagram-based environment for model setup, a spreadsheet like interface for data entry, an expert system link for automatic model construction, and an interactive graphic interface for displaying simulation results."
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Software is free.......2004-12-06
Modeling for Reliability Analysis.......2004-08-24
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Transport Phenomena and Kinetic Theory: Applications to Gases, Semiconductors, Photons, and Biological Systems (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 081764489X |
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The study of kinetic equations related to gases, semiconductors, photons, traffic flow, and other systems has developed rapidly in recent years because of its role as a mathematical tool in many applications in areas such as engineering, meteorology, biology, chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, and pharmacy. Written by leading specialists in their respective fields, this book presents an overview of recent developments in the field of mathematical kinetic theory with a focus on modeling complex systems, emphasizing both mathematical properties and their physical meaning.
The overall presentation covers not only modeling aspects and qualitative analysis of mathematical problems, but also inverse problems, which lead to a detailed assessment of models in connection with their applications, and to computational problems, which lead to an effective link of models to the analysis of real-world systems. The book is divided into three parts: Part I presents fundamental aspects of the Boltzmann equation; Part II deals with the modeling of semiconductor devices as well as related applications and computational topics; Part III covers a variety of applications in physics and the natural sciences, offering a range of very different conceivable developments of mathematical kinetic theory.
Transport Phenomena and Kinetic Theory is an excellent self-study reference for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners working in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. The work may be used in courses or seminars on selected topics in transport phenomena or applications of the Boltzmann equation.
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