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Title Uncertainty and surprise in complex systems : questions on working with the unexpected / R.R. McDaniel, Jr., D.J. Driebe (eds.)
Published Berlin : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series Understanding complex systems
Understanding complex systems.
Contents Section I Introduction to Uncertainty and Surprise -- Uncertainty and surprise: an introduction -- Surprises in a half century -- Section II Central Themes on Uncertainty and Surprise -- Complexity, uncertainty and surprise: an integrated view -- The evolutionary complexity of social economic systems: the inevitability of uncertainty and surprise -- Managing the unexpected: complexity as distributed sensemaking -- Section III Differing Views of Uncertainty and Surprise -- Section IIIA Fundamental Unknowability in Science and Social Science -- Fundamental "uncertainty" in science -- The complementary nature of coordination dynamics: toward a science of the in-between -- The tyranny of many dimensionless constants: a constraint on knowability -- Section IIIB Organizational Issues of Uncertainty -- A view from the inside: the task of managing uncertainty and surprise -- An introduction to the mathematics and meaning of chaos -- Section IIIC Fundamental Uncertainty and the Delivery of Health Care -- The social construction of uncertainty in healthcare delivery -- Primary care practice: uncertainty and surprise -- Medical errors and microsystems: the best things cannot be told -- Organization and leadership in hospitals -- Section IIID Fundamental Uncertainty in Business and Business Decision Making -- Fundamental uncertainty in business: real options -- Transforming your regional economy through uncertainty and surprise: learning from complexity science, network theory and the field -- Uncertainty and certainty -- Section IV Conversations on Uncertainty and Surprise -- Uncertainty and surprise: ideas from the open discussion
Summary "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. 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
In Springer e-books
Subject Computational complexity.
Vibration.
Mathematics.
Vibration
Mathematics
vibration (physical)
Computational complexity.
Physique.
Computational complexity
Systemen.
Onzekerheid.
Systeemtheorie.
Verrassing.
Genre/Form Congressen (vorm)
Congressen (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author McDaniel, Reuben R., Jr
Driebe, Dean J.
ISBN 3540237739
9783540237730
9783540323723
3540323724
1281389889
9781281389886
6611389881
9786611389888