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- Introduces a general unified framework for dealing with topics such as dynamical structural coherence, emergence, disorder, hierarchical systems, system-environment relationships
- Presents new approaches including meta-structures to model dynamical coherence in processes of emergence
- Examines the question of equivalence/non-equivalence for system models
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Translation into Social Culture
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Italian Systems Society, Milan, Italy
Gianfranco Minati
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University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Eliano Pessa
About the authors
Eliano Pessa, Theoretical Physicist, is actually Full Professor of General Psychology and Cognitive Modeling at the University of Pavia, Italy. He has already been Dean of the Department of Psychology and of the Inter-departmental Research Center on Cognitive Science in the same university. In the past he has been Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Psychology. He is author or co-author of 10 books and of a large number of papers on scientific journals, books, proceedings of international conferences. His scientific research interests include: quantum theories of brain operation, computational neuroscience, artificial neural networks, models of emergence processes, quantum field theory, models of phase transitions in condensed matter, models of human memory and visual perception, models of decision making, models of statistical reasoning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems
Authors: Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7579-2Published: 30 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8527-2Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-7581-5Published: 29 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 386
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Complex Systems, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology