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Disrupted networks [[electronic resource] ] : from physics to climate change / / Bruce J. West & Nicola Scafetta



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Autore: West Bruce J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Disrupted networks [[electronic resource] ] : from physics to climate change / / Bruce J. West & Nicola Scafetta Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
Disciplina: 500
Soggetto topico: System analysis
Science - Data processing
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): ScafettaNicola
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preface; Contents; 1 Why a Science of Networks?; 2 Data; 3 Information; 4 Knowledge; 5 A World of Disrupted Networks; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based
Titolo autorizzato: Disrupted networks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-76373-3
9786612763731
981-4304-31-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456145703321
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Serie: Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; ; v. 13.