Search results for “[Subject: system-theory]”

• Author(s): John H. Holland • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mecha...

• Author(s): Susan Oyama | Russell D. Gray | Paul E. Griffiths • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: GeneralThe nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across ma...

• Author(s): C. Otto Scharmer • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant • Publisher Imprint: ReadHowYouWant • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorThis book offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. S...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Walter Schreiter • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalDieses einzigartige Lehrbuch kombiniert die Grundlagen der chemischen Thermodynamik mit einem umfan...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Albert C. Hall • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricalA standard reference on the application of network theory to the design of automatic control systems.The 1943 printing of The Analysis and Synthe...

• Author(s): Werner Callebaut | Diego Rasskin-Gutman | Herbert A. Simon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: System TheoryExperts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmenta...

• Author(s): Nancy G. Leveson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: System TheoryA new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques....

• Author(s): James Pustejovsky • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation...

• Author(s): Millicent Churcher • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyDrawing on recent work in social epistemology, critical race theory, a...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Bracken S. J. • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicJoseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an ...

• Author(s): David Huron • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's e...

• Author(s): Gerhard Weiss • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralThe new edition of an introduction to multiagent systems that captures the state of the art in both theory and prac...

• Author(s): Marc Kessebohmer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Number TheoryBy connecting dynamical systems and number theory, this graduate textbook on ergodic theory acts as an introduction to a highly active are...

• Author(s): Steven H. Strogatz • Publisher: Theia • Publisher Imprint: Theia • BISAC: System TheoryAt the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies ...

• Author(s): Alicia Juarrero • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyWhat is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Johan Van Benthem • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Game Theory A comprehensive examination of the interfaces of logic, computer science, and game theory, drawing on twenty years of research on lo...

• Author(s): Robert G. Gallager • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Languages - GeneralThis is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is ...

• Author(s): Tyler Volk • Publisher: Copernicus Books • Publisher Imprint: Copernicus Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyIf there's such a thing as Gaia--if Earth's biosphere really is a self -sustaining meta-organism--then it must have someth...

• Author(s): Martin Shubik | Eric Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - GeneralA rigorous theory of money, credit, and bankruptcy in the context of a mixed economy, uniting Walrasian...

• Author(s): Morwenna Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWhat does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosoph...

• Author(s): James McGlade | Sander E. Van Der Leeuw • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ArchaeologyIn a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any concept...

• Author(s): Morwenna Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWhat does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosoph...

• Author(s): George H. Grosser | Henry Wechsler | Milton Greenblatt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyThis volume developed from the December 1962 symposium of the American Association for the Advance...

• Author(s): Glenn H. Snyder • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the intern...

• Author(s): Jairo Nunes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not gramm...

• Author(s): Lise Getoor | Ben Taskar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Machine TheoryAdvanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilist...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): Davydd Greenwood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Misa | Philip Brey | Andrew Feenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceIf asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and eve...

• Author(s): Alberto Carpinteri • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThis book presents a complete and unified treatment of the fundamental themes of structural mechanics, ranging from the tradi...

• Author(s): Claude Lefort | David Thompson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralClaude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work publis...