Controlling uncertainty : decision making and learning in complex worlds / / Magda Osman

• Autore: Osman Magda
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Balckwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 003/.5
• Soggetto topico: Uncertainty; Decision making; Cognitive psychology; Control (Psychology)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds; Contents; Preface: the master puppeteer; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Causation and agency; Chapter 3: Control systems engineering; Chapter 4: Cybernetics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; Chapter 5: Human factors (HCI, ergonomics and cognitive engineering); Chapter 6: Social psychology, organizational psychology and management; Chapter 7: Cognitive psychology; Chapter 8: Neuroscience; Chapter 9: Synthesis; Chapter 10: Epilogue: the master puppeteer; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds reviews and discusses the most current research relating to the ways we can control the uncertain world around us.Features reviews and discussions of the most current research in a number of fields relevant to controlling uncertainty, such as psychology, neuroscience, computer science and engineeringPresents a new framework that is designed to integrate a variety of disparate fields of researchRepresents the first book of its kind to provide a general overview of work related to understanding control
• Titolo autorizzato: Controlling uncertainty
• ISBN: 1-282-72932-2; 9786612729324; 1-4443-2822-0; 1-4443-2823-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910877301403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II