| 书目名称 | Why Society is a Complex Matter | | 副标题 | Meeting Twenty-first | | 编辑 | Philip Ball | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/1029/1028170/1028170.mp4 | | 概述 | Explains and exemplifies the application of complex-systems theory to understanding real and pressing societal problems, such as financial crises, pandemics, war and terrorism, human mobility and migr | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states..This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, i | | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | | 关键词 | Complex networks and epidemic spreading; Crisis observatories and decision-support systems; Dynamics o | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29000-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-28999-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-29000-8 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 |
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