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Social systems engineering : the design of complexity /

Uniquely reflects an engineering view to social systems in a wide variety of contexts of application Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity brings together a wide variety of application approaches to social systems from an engineering viewpoint. The book defines a social system as any...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: García-Díaz, Cesar (Editor ), Olaya, Camilo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The why, what and how of social systems engineering / César García-Díaz and Camilo Olaya
  • Social systems engineering : the very idea. Compromised exactness and the rationality of engineering / Steven L. Goldman ; Uncertainty in the design and maintenance of social systems / William M. Bulleit ; System farming / Bruce Edmonds ; Policy between evolution and engineering / Martin F.G. Schaffernicht ; 'Friend' versus 'electronic friend' / Joseph C. Pitt
  • Methodologies and tools. Interactive visualizations for supporting decision-making in complex socio-technical systems / Zhongyuan Yu, Mehrnoosh Oghbaie, Chen Liu, William B. Rouse and Michael J. Pennock ; Developing agent-based simulation models for social systems engineering studies : a novel framework and its application to modelling peacebuilding activities / Peer-Olaf Siebers, Grazziela P. Figueredo, Miwa Hirono and Anya Skatova ; Using actor-network theory in agent-based modelling / Sandra Méndez-Fajardo, Rafael A. Gonzalez and Ricardo A. Barros-Castro ; Engineering the process of institutional innovation in contested territory / Russell C. Thomas and John S. Gero
  • Cases and applications. Agent-based exploration of environmental consumption in segregated networks / Adam Douglas Henry and Heike I. Brugger ; Modelling in the 'muddled middle' : a case study of water service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa / Jai K. Clifford-Holmes, Jill H. Slinger, Chris de Wet and Carolyn G. Palmer ; Holistic system design : the Oncology Carinthia study / Markus Schwaninger and Johann Klocker ; Reinforcing the social in social systems engineering : lessons learnt from Smart City projects in the United Kingdom / Jenny O'Connor, Zeynep Gurguc and Koen H. van Dam.