Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary CHESS Interactions Conference [[electronic resource] ] : Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada, 17-20 August 2009 / / editors, Chary Rangacharyulu, Emmanuel Haven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463948903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-14428-X; 9786613144287; 981-4295-89-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RangacharyuluChary; HavenEmmanuel <1965->
• Disciplina: 001
• Soggetti: Interdisciplinary research; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; Picture of the congress participants; Conference Programme; CONTENTS; SWITCHING PHENOMENA H. E. Stanley; S. V. Buldyrev; G. Franzese; S. Havlin; F. Mallamace; M. G. Mazza; P. Kumar; V. Plerou; T. Preis; K. Stokely; L. Xu; ENTROPY, A UNIFYING CONCEPT: FROM PHYSICS TO COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Constantino Tsallis; Alexandra C. Tsallis; FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY: A JOURNEY TO UNDERSTAND A SMALL CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE Bernhard H.J. Juurlink; ECONO-PHYSICS: MODELS & METAPHORS Peter M. Jackson; METAPHORS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH E. Haven; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF A THEORY OF EVERYTHING Tom G. PorterQUANTUM PROBABILITY APPLIED TO SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES J. R. Busemeyer; Zheng Wang; MARKET EFFICIENCY AND THE RISKS AND RETURNS OF DYNAMIC TRADING STRATEGIES WITH COMMODITY FUTURES Lorne N. Switzer; Hui Jiang; ON RELIGION AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTIONS SEEN THROUGH MATHEMATICAL AND AGENT BASED MODELS M. Ausloos; TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA FOR DISCUSSING MUSIC IN TERMS OF SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY (An Outline) Gyula Csapó; WHAT IS QUANTUM THEORY ; TELLING US ABOUT HOW NATURE WORKS? P. Goyal; BELL'S INEQUALITY: REVOLUTION IN QUANTUM PHYSICS OR JUST AN INADEQUATE MATHEMATICAL MODEL? Andrei KhrennikovSTRUCTURES AND SYMMETRIES IN PHYSICS Chary Rangacharyulu; INTEGRATING DIFFERENT MODES OF INQUIRY FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS Tanya Augsburg; J. Acacio de Barros; ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF UNCERTAINTY IN HUMAN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION Madan M. Gupta; Ashu M. G. Solo; THE CONSILIENT EPISTEMOLOGY: STRUCTURING EVOLUTION OF OUR LOGICAL THINKING Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri; SCIENTIFIC ORTHODOXIES: MOVING CHALLENGE TOWARD REVOLUTION Gerald H. Pollack; Best Student Poster Presentation: DETERMINATION OF HOST-GUEST BINDING SITES FOR ß-CYCLODEXTRIN URETHANE COPOLYMERS Lee D. Wi
• Sommario/riassunto: This unique proceedings volume offers one of the very first truly interdisciplinary conferences ever organized. More than 20 papers in this volume are written by some of the most acclaimed researchers in their field. Contributions range over a very wide spectrum of disciplines: sociology; philosophy; economics; psychology; biology; health sciences; operations research; computer science; physics; and, mathematics.