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.
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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 distributions to the conference it includes a key digest by the editors as well as a commentary by the late nobel laureat 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.
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Much of the traditional scientific and applied scientific work in the social and natural sciences has been built on the supposition that the unknowability of situations is the result of a lack of information. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural attractor, coordination dynamics, complexity science, fundamental uncertainty, electrophysiology laboratory, healthcare delivery, risk neutral probabilities, dimensionless constants, collective elements, social entrepreneurs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Much of the traditional scientific and applied scientific work in the social and natural sciences has been built on the supposition that the unknowability of situations is the result of a lack of information. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
structural attractor, coordination dynamics, complexity science, fundamental uncertainty, electrophysiology laboratory, healthcare delivery, risk neutral probabilities, dimensionless constants, collective elements, social entrepreneurs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Nile, Health Care Management Review, Oxford University Press, Free Press, The University of Texas, Basic Books, United States, Karl Weick, Net Payoff, School of Business, Tom Petzinger, Henri Lipmanowicz, Newton's Principia, World War New!
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- The Complementary Nature (Bradford Books) by J. A. Scott Kelso on page 77, and page 78
- Health Care by GRIFFITH on page 121
- The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory (Understanding Complex Systems) by Boris S. Kerner in Back Matter
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio on page 143
- Social Psychology by NEWMAN on page 11
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- Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks (Understanding Complex Systems) by Ljupco Kocarev in Back Matter
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