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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Decoding Complexity Decoding Complexity James B. Glattfelder Today it appears that we understand more about the universe than about our interconnected socio-economic world. In order to uncover organizational structures and novel features in these systems, we p… OL19840525W
Essentials of Risk Theory Essentials of Risk Theory Sabine Roeser Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essent… OL19848445W
Simulating Social Complexity Simulating Social Complexity Bruce Edmonds Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language a… OL19902184W
State Space Grids State Space Grids Tom Hollenstein <p>Human development from birth through adulthood is a complex interplay of many interacting forces. Children’s internal processes are manifest in behaviors that are sculpted by their experiences, mo… OL19903780W
The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths Andreas M. Hinz <p>This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi” which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. … OL19907509W
Using Game Theory to Improve Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks Using Game Theory to Improve Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks Genserik Reniers Though the game-theoretic approach has been vastly studied and utilized in relation to economics of industrial organizations, it has hardly been used to tackle safety management in multi-plant chemic… OL19909159W