|
Mathematics
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows Publisher Comments In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Handbook of Real-World Applications of Modeling and Simulation (Wiley Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Scienc) by John A. (edt) Sokolowski Publisher Comments Introduces various modeling and simulation methods and paradigms that are used to explain and solve the predominant challenges facing society Handbook of Real-World Applications in Modeling and Simulation provides a thorough explanation of modeling and... (read more) Your price: $149.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Mathematical Programming by Steven Vajda Publisher Comments Written by a trailblazer in the field, this classic of mathematical programming and operational research first appeared decades ago. It remains ever relevant, offering advanced undergraduates and graduate students a coherent introduction to linear and... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball Publisher Comments Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life by John H. Miller Publisher Comments This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell Publisher Comments What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Robust Control Design: An Optimal Control Approach by Feng Lin Publisher Comments Comprehensive and accessible guide to the three main approaches to robust control design and its applications Optimal control is a mathematical field that is concerned with control policies that can be deduced using optimization algorithms. The optimal... (read more) List Price $140.00 Your price: $134.75 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear 2ND Edition by Yousef Saad Publisher Comments Tremendous progress has been made in the scientific and engineering disciplines regarding the use of iterative methods for linear systems. The size and complexity of linear and nonlinear systems arising in typical applications has grown, meaning that... (read more) Your price: $110.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Eng #55: Viability of Hybrid Systems: A Controllability Operator Approach by G Labinaz Publisher Comments The problem of viability of hybrid systems is considered in this work. A model for a hybrid system is developed including a means of including three forms of uncertainty: transition dynamics, structural uncertainty, and parametric uncertainty. A... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $95.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Cime Summer Schools #46: Controllability and Observability: Lectures Given at the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) Held in Pontecchio (Bologna), Italy, July by E Evangelisti Publisher Comments R.E. Kalman: Lectures on controllability and observability.- E. Kulikowski: Controllability and optimum contro.- A. Straszak: Supervisory controllabilityl.- L. Weiss: Lectures on controllability and observability.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
An Introduction to Identification by J. P. Norton Publisher Comments Advanced undergraduates and graduate students of electrical, chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering will appreciate this text for a course in systems identification. In addition to the theoretical basis for mathematical modeling, it covers a... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control by Thor I. I. Fossen Publisher Comments The technology of hydrodynamic modeling and marine craft motion control systems has progressed greatly in recent years. This timely survey includes the latest tools for analysis and design of advanced guidance, navigation and control systems and presents... (read more) List Price $200.00 Your price: $192.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell Publisher Comments What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Multidimensional Systems Theory and Applications by N. K. (edt) Bose Publisher Comments The Second Edition of this book includes an abundance of examples to illustrate advanced concepts and brings out in a text book setting the algorithms for bivariate polynomial matrix factorization results that form the basis of two-dimensional systems... (read more) Your price: $168.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Research Trends in Combinatorial Optimization: Bonn 2008 by William J Cook Publisher Comments This book, written by leading experts in combinatorial optimization, features in-depth surveys of current research areas in combinatorial optimization in the broad sense, ranging from applied graph theory to mathematical programming. It also contains... (read more) List Price $139.00 Your price: $32.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Switching in Systems and Control (Systems & Control) by Daniel Liberzon Publisher Comments The theory of switched systems is related to the study of hybrid systems, which has gained attention from control theorists, computer scientists, and practicing engineers. This book examines switched systems from a control-theoretic perspective, focusing... (read more) Your price: $79.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Modeling Complex Systems by Nino Boccara Publisher Comments This book explores the process of modeling complex systems in the widest sense of that term, drawing on examples from such diverse fields as ecology, epidemiology, sociology, seismology, as well as economics. It also provides the mathematical tools for... (read more) List Price $124.00 Your price: $119.35 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
