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dell'Isola, Francesco |
Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents |
I09391 |
2019 |
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Brugge, Doug |
Incident on Simpac III |
I09286 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Huysman, M.H |
Communities and Technologies |
I11587 |
2003 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Information Handling in Astronomy |
I11565 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11560 |
2001 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11554 |
2003 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11547 |
2002 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11464 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Mikhailov, Alexander S |
From Cells to Societies |
I11366 |
2002 |
eBook |
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Neyman, Abraham |
Stochastic Games and Applications |
I11310 |
2003 |
eBook |
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| Title | Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents : Towards the Mathematical Understanding of Social Groups |
| Author(s) | dell'Isola, Francesco |
| Publication | Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2019. |
| Description | XXI, 164 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book highlights mathematical ideas to help explain a number of important aspects of the dynamics of social groups. These ideas are similar to those used to describe the behaviour of Lagrangian mechanical systems, and as such this book appeals to anyone wanting to gain an understanding of the intrinsic unity of natural phenomena |
| ISBN,Price | 9789811394799 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Computational Social Sciences
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. MATHEMATICS
5. Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
6. Popular Science in Mathematics
7. Science???Social aspects
8. SOCIAL SCIENCES
9. Social sciences???Computer programs
10. Social sciences???Data processing
11. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
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| Title | Incident on Simpac III : A Scientific Novel |
| Author(s) | Brugge, Doug |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | IX, 234 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth???s history of successes and failures. Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up, making an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data, the computations, or is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program? A race against time ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge. While grounded in the social systems aspect, the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based tools than most contemporary science fiction ??? which most often relies entirely on non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies ??? predicts. The result is an entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF, complemented by a nontechnical appendix describing the underlying science. About the Author: Doug Brugge holds a PhD in Biology from Harvard University and an MS in Industrial Hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has secondary appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Active Citizenship and Public Service. Most of his work employs a community-based participatory research approach with a deep commitment to translating research into concrete policies and practices. He is the author of Particles in the Air: The Deadliest Pollutant is One You Breathe Every Day (Springer 2018). ???A taut, brilliantly crafted thriller! Brugge reminds us that the fabric of every society contains the pull threads for its unraveling.??? ???Len Boswell, author, A Grave Misunderstanding |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319931609 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Behavioral economics
3. Behavioral/Experimental Economics
4. BIOINFORMATICS
5. Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
6. Computational Social Sciences
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. Popular Social Sciences
11. SOCIAL SCIENCES
12. Social sciences???Computer programs
13. Social sciences???Data processing
14. SPACE SCIENCES
15. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Communities and Technologies |
| Author(s) | Huysman, M.H;Wenger, Etienne;Wulf, Volker |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | XII, 484 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional communities and the internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects the best of current research and practice in the field of C&T |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401701150 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE
3. Computer Science, general
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
7. MANAGEMENT
8. Science???Social aspects
9. SOCIAL SCIENCES
10. Social Sciences, general
11. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
12. User interfaces (Computer systems)
13. User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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| Title | Information Handling in Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2000. |
| Description | X, 242 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The pilot boat just moved away and'its lights are already fading towards the coast of Northeastern Queensland over which Saturn is going to set. There is still quite some time to go before dawn. The big ship has now regained her cruise speed following its roughly northwesterly route in the South Coral Sea along the chain of nearby reefs. Few people are around at this time, except a dozen early birds sharing some 'shipshaping' exercise on the top deck and taking advantage of the relative coolness of the night. On my way down to the stateroom, I cannot but stop once more in front of that elegant composition by British artist Brigid Collins (1963-) hanging in the monumental staircase between Decks 7 and 8. That piece 2 of art, a 1.8x 1.8m oil on canvas plus collage entitled Berinl in honour of the Danish explorer, gathers together many navigation-related themes of the time: Suns, Moons, planets, sky maps, astrolabes, small telescopes, as well as drawings, diagrams and charts of all kinds. It is somehow a digest of how astronomical information was then collected, made available, and used |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401143455 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. COMPUTER SCIENCE
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. EDUCATION
7. Education, general
8. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
9. Management of Computing and Information Systems
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. SOCIAL SCIENCES
12. Social Sciences, general
13. Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
14. Statistics??
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy : Volume II |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2001. |
| Description | IX, 280 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon?? der about the mysteries of the universe. We might make the trip to Paris and ask him, in the Louvre, what precisely is on his mind. Unfortunately, there will be no answer. But we do know what his mind was not on. It was not on the approaching deadlines for the proposals he would have to write for getting funds and telescope-time, not on the meeting of the observing programs committee, not on his refereeing duty for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, nor on his university's tightening budget for science. In the Kapteyn Institute at Groningen I stand face to face with the im?? pressive portrait of J.C. Kapteyn, painted in the year 1918. Seated at his desk he is doing his calculations with pen, pencil and tables, perhaps check?? ing the work of his skilled staff of human computers. Early in his career he had completed his magnum opus, the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung in collaboration with his close friend David Gill at Capetown, South Africa |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401006668 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy : Volume 4 |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | XII, 330 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | I am most grateful to Andr?? e Heck for his invitation to write a foreword to OSA Volume 4 ??? I will use this valued opportunity to emphasise those topics in Vol. 4 which I consider important even if other topics may be of even greater importance in the universal scale of things. At the outset let me say that I commend Vol. 4 to its readers ??? it contains much of very great interest for organisations and strategies in astronomy. A topic which I consider to be of very great importance at this time is Adverse Environmental Impact on Astronomy. There are two papers on this topic in OSA 4 ??? Cohen on Strategies for Protecting Radio Ast- nomy and Schwarz on Light Pollution Control. The growth in the extent of use, the power and spectral demand for radio transmission continues to increase virtually exponentially. The impact on the ???listening??? services such as radio astronomy has been severe. Only by creativity in developing new techniques for radio noise (including legal transmissions) reduction and by participating fully in the allocation process for radio frequencies has radio astronomy developed to the powerful investigative tool it is today |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401000499 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy : Volume III |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2002. |
| Description | IX, 238 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | We have arrived at the third volume of this useful series on Organiza?? tions and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). It contains seventeen articles on a wide range of topics, from virtual observatories, astronomy organizations in various communities (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, South Africa), and the role of ground stations in space observatories, to quality assurance in UK higher education. In this foreword, I shall give some views on ideas expressed in this volume, in particular from my personal experience when I was project officer for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Let me first remind readers that present and future astronomy is in?? creasingly dependent on high-level management. Not everybody knows that the scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope is performed by a neural?? network software called SPIKE, described in the stimulating workshop New Observing Modes for the Next Centuryl, partly reported in OSA Volume II by 1. Robson. New observing facilities, in space or on the ground, are so complex that they need highly qualified engineers and rigorous management procedures. Each observing hour on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) fa?? cility is worth about EUR 7,000, including the amortization of the capital expenses over 30 years. This does not leave much room for amateurism, neither in the time allocation procedures, nor in the daily telescope control |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401006064 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2000. |
| Description | X, 221 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Research and publications in the field of Astronomy have undergone dramatic changes in the last half-century. While activities just slowed down during World War II in the US and in Latin America, they were very strongly affected by the difficult conditions prevailing among the European belligerent nations. Half a century ago, re?? search activities were mostly confined to observatories (linked or not to universities) and usually separated from the teaching of physical sciences. Hence, directors of observatories played an important role in the choice of the research fields, and "schools" of research appeared at various places, de?? veloping specific instrumentation, reduction techniques and mathematical methods to achieve their scientific goals. Reorganising the research activities after the war was no minor under?? taking, specially because communications were interrupted for over five years and isolated continental Europe from overseas activities. Scarcity of observing instruments (some of them being requisitioned by occupy?? ing armies) , enormous gaps in the available litterature led to local research activities, conducted independently of similar efforts undertaken elsewhere |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401009263 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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| Title | From Cells to Societies : Models of Complex Coherent Action |
| Author(s) | Mikhailov, Alexander S;Calenbuhr, Vera |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. |
| Description | X, 302 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book shows how, by rather simple models, we can gain remarkable insights into the behavior of complex systems. It is devoted to the discussion of functional self-organization in large populations of interacting active elements. The possible forms of self-organization in such systems range from coherent collective motions in the physical coordinate space to the mutual synchronization of internal dynamics, the development of coherently operating groups, the rise of hierarchical structures, and the emergence of dynamical networks. Such processes play an important role in biological and social phenomena. The authors have chosen a series of models from physics, biochemistry, biology, sociology and economics, and will systematically discuss their general properties. The book addresses researchers and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology and the social sciences |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662050620 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. COMPUTERS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
9. SOCIAL SCIENCES
10. Social Sciences, general
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
13. Theory of Computation
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| Title | Stochastic Games and Applications |
| Author(s) | Neyman, Abraham;Sorin, S |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | IX, 473 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume is based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Stochastic Games and Applications," which took place at Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 1999. It gives the editors great pleasure to present it on the occasion of L.S. Shapley's eightieth birthday, and on the fiftieth "birthday" of his seminal paper "Stochastic Games," with which this volume opens. We wish to thank NATO for the grant that made the Institute and this volume possible, and the Center for Game Theory in Economics of the State University of New York at Stony Brook for hosting this event. We also wish to thank the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, for providing continuing financial support, without which this project would never have been completed. In particular, we are grateful to our editorial assistant Mike Borns, whose work has been indispensable. We also would like to acknowledge the support of the Ecole Poly tech?? nique, Paris, and the Israel Science Foundation. March 2003 Abraham Neyman and Sylvain Sorin ix STOCHASTIC GAMES L.S. SHAPLEY University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA 1. Introduction In a stochastic game the play proceeds by steps from position to position, according to transition probabilities controlled jointly by the two players |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401001892 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. DECISION MAKING
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GAME THEORY
5. Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
6. MATHEMATICS
7. Mathematics, general
8. OPERATIONS RESEARCH
9. Operations Research/Decision Theory
10. PROBABILITIES
11. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
12. SOCIAL SCIENCES
13. Social Sciences, general
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