Preface |
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1 Introduction and Overview |
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Seminal Concepts - Systems Science |
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Seminal Concepts - Economics/Cognition |
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Seminal Concepts - Operations Research |
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Seminal Concepts - Sociology |
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Complexity and Complex Systems |
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Complex Versus Complicated Systems |
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Phenomena as the Starting Point |
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview |
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Chapter 2: Overall Methodology |
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Chapter 3: Perspectives on Phenomena |
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Chapter 4: Physical Phenomena |
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Chapter 5: Human Phenomena |
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Chapter 6: Economic Phenomena |
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Chapter 7: Social Phenomena |
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Chapter 8: Visualization of Phenomena |
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Chapter 9: Computational Methods and Tools |
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Chapter 10: Perspectives on Problem Solving |
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2 Overall Methodology |
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Deterring or Identifying Counterfeit Parts |
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Financial Systems and Bursting Bubbles |
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Human Responses and Urban Resilience |
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Traffic Control via Congestion Pricing |
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Impacts of Investments in Healthcare Delivery |
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Supporting the Methodology |
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3 Perspectives on Phenomena |
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Electricity to Electric Lights |
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Contemporary Perspectives |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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Integrated Circuit Design |
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Behavioral and Social Systems |
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Problems versus Phenomena |
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4 Physical Phenomena |
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Example - Urban Oceanography |
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Example - Vehicle Powertrain |
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Example - Manufacturing Processes |
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Deterring or Identifying Counterfeit Parts |
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5 Human Phenomena |
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Descriptive Versus Prescriptive Approaches |
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Models of Human Behavior and Performance |
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Example - Problem Solving |
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Example - Multitask Decision Making |
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Traffic Control Via Congestion Pricing |
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6 Economic Phenomena |
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Example - Optimal Pricing |
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Example - Investing in People |
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Tax Rates Interest Rates and Inflation |
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Management Decision Making |
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Intuition versus Analysis |
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Economics of Healthcare Delivery |
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7 Social Phenomena |
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Emergent versus Designed Organizational Phenomena |
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Direct versus Representative Political Phenomena |
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Modeling Complex Social Systems |
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Example - Earth as a System |
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Physics-Based Formulations |
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Example - Castes and Outcastes |
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Example - Acquisition as a Game |
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Example - Port and Airport Evacuation |
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Example - Emergence of Cities |
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A Framework for Urban Resilience |
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8 Visualization of Phenomena |
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Human Vision as a Phenomenon |
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Example - Space Shuttle Challenger |
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Purposes of Visualizations |
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Examples - Co-Citation Networks and Mobile Devices |
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Example - Big Graphics and Little Screens |
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Example - Employee Prevention and Wellness |
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People's Use of Simulators |
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9 Computational Methods and Tools |
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Representation to Computation |
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Consistency of Assumptions |
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10 Perspectives on Problem Solving |
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Enterprise Transformation |
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Observations on Problem Solving |
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Index |
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