Editors:
- Exploring new strategies of uncertainty and surprise in the world around us
- Includes one of the last distributions of nobel laureat Ilya Prigogine
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Complexity science has been a source of new insight in physical and social systems and has demonstrated that unpredictability and surprise are fundamental aspects of the world around us. This book is the outcome of a discussion meeting of leading scholars and critical thinkers with expertise in complex systems sciences and leaders from a variety of organizations, sponsored by the Prigogine Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the Plexus Institute, to explore strategies for understanding uncertainty and surprise. Besides contributions to the conference, it includes a key digest by the editors as well as a commentary by the late nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine, "Surprises in half of a century". The book is intended for researchers and scientists in complexity science, as well as for a broad interdisciplinary audience of both practitioners and scholars. It will well serve those interested in the research issues and in the application of complexity science to physical and social systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems
Book Subtitle: Questions on Working with the Unexpected
Editors: Reuben R. McDaniel, Dean J. Driebe
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b13122
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-23773-0Published: 11 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06272-8Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32372-3Published: 13 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 202
Topics: Complex Systems, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Applications of Mathematics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems