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This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multi-component, multi-level, evolved complex systems. This integrative pluralism is the most efficient way to understand the different and complex processes - historical and interactive - that generate biological phenomena. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science.

Biological systems. --- Biology --- Philosophy of science --- Biological systems --- Biosystems --- Systems, Biological --- System theory --- Systems biology --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities

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System theory --- System analysis --- Social systems --- Biological systems --- Life Sciences --- General and Others --- Biological systems. --- Social systems. --- System analysis. --- System theory. --- natural sciences --- humanities --- social sciences --- education ecology --- simulations --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- Network theory --- Systems analysis --- Mathematical optimization --- Sociology --- Biosystems --- Systems, Biological --- Biology --- Systems biology --- Philosophy --- Network analysis --- Network science --- Social sciences

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This book presents the theoretical frame for studying lumped nonsmoothdynamical systems: the mathematical methods are recalled, and adaptednumerical methods are introduced (differential inclusions, maximalmonotone operators, Filippov theory, Aizerman theory, etc.

Bifurcation theory. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Differential equations, Nonlinear. --- Nonlinear differential equations --- Nonlinear theories --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- System theory --- Differential equations, Nonlinear --- Stability --- Numerical solutions

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Explores the relations between contemporary complex systems theory and Classical political economy, and applies the methods it develops to the problems of induced technical change and income distribution in capitalist economies.

Economics, Mathematical --- System theory --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Labor economics --- Environmental economics --- Land use --- Capitalism --- Economic aspects --- Economics, Mathematical. --- System theory. --- Labor economics. --- Environmental economics. --- Capitalism. --- Economic aspects. --- Market economy --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Mathematical economics --- Environmental aspects --- Mathematics --- Profit --- Capital --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Philosophy --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Science --- Econometrics --- Methodology --- Land use - Economic aspects

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This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins. This serves as a prelude to a wide-ranging analysis of the diffusion of OR into the public and private sectors after 1945. The chapters on the role of OR in iron and steel and coal-mining, and its rapid adoption in the UK corporate sector after 1960, will be of particular interest to practitioners.

Electronic books. -- local. --- Military art and science -- Great Britain. --- Operations research -- Great Britain. --- Research, Industrial -- Great Britain. --- Operations research --- Military art and science --- Research, Industrial --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Operations Research --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Faraday partnerships --- Naval art and science --- War --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory