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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
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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)

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Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
by Andrew Zolli
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Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole. In this time of turbulence, people are asking the same basic question: What causes one system to break down... (read more)

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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J Watts
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In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers,... (read more)

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Donella Meadows
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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)

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Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear 2ND Edition
Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear 2ND Edition
by Yousef Saad
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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)

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Automating with Simatic S7-300 Inside Tia Portal
Automating with Simatic S7-300 Inside Tia Portal
by Hans Berger
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This book presents a comprehensive description of the configuration of devices and network for the S7-300 components inside the new engineering framework TIA Portal. You learn how to formulate and test a control program with the respective languages LAD... (read more)

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General System Theory
General System Theory
by Ludwig Von Bartalanffy
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An attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography.... (read more)

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Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
by Andrew Zolli
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IN THIS TIME OF TURBULENCE, scientists, economists, social innovators, corporate and civic leaders, and citizens alike are asking the same basic questions: What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of... (read more)

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Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction
Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction
by Steven F. Railsback
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"Knitting together ecology, economics, and social systems, this wonderful book will encourage and enlighten novices and experienced modelers alike. It highlights the importance of patterns at every level of the modeling process, the need for clear... (read more)

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X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything
X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything
by John Casti
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A page-turning exploration of eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world. A renowned systems theorist, John Casti shows how our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing... (read more)

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SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
by Steven Strogatz
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The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur... (read more)

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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
by John H Holland
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Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.... (read more)

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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
by Mark Buchanan
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Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffic jams that seem to appear out of nowhere? Why does the stock market periodically suffer dramatic... (read more)

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Control of Synchronous Actuators
Control of Synchronous Actuators
by Jean-paul (edt) Louis
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Synchronous motors are indubitably the most effective device to drive industrial production systems and robots with precision and rapidity. Their control law is thus critical for combining at the same time high productivity to reduced energy consummation.... (read more)

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An Introduction to Identification
An Introduction to Identification
by J P Norton
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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)

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Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Eng #55: Viability of Hybrid Systems: A Controllability Operator Approach
Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Eng #55: Viability of Hybrid Systems: A Controllability Operator Approach
by G. Labinaz
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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)

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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
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
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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)

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Applied Mathematical Sciences #0072: Mutiphase Averaging for Classical Systems: With Applications to Adiabatic Theorems
Applied Mathematical Sciences #0072: Mutiphase Averaging for Classical Systems: With Applications to Adiabatic Theorems
by P Lochak
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In the past several decades many significant results in averaging for systems of ODE's have been obtained. These results have not attracted a tention in proportion to their importance, partly because they have been overshadowed by KAM theory, and partly... (read more)

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Complexity: A Guided Tour
Complexity: A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell
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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)

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Multidimensional Systems Theory and Applications
Multidimensional Systems Theory and Applications
by N. K. (edt) Bose
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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)

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