Computational Models of Complex Systems

Computational models provide us with opportunities to create a simulated environment to construct and understand the intricacies of the real world problems. They allow us to apply our best analytical methods to subject problems defined in a clearly mathematical manner. They give us a chance to test our designs in full before committing expensive resources to their production. They isolate a subject from an unbounded environment, allowing controllable experimentation not possible in a messy world. Computation has been posited as a third pillar of science, alongside theory and empirical research. This book provides a window to the novel endeavours of the research communities to present their works by highlighting the value of computational modelling as a research tool when investigating complex systems. We hope that the readers will have stimulating experiences to pursue research in these directions.

List of contents

Computational Models of Complex Systems: An Introduction.- Kabbalah Mathematical System Theoretic Models of Knowledge Based and Behavioral Economics and Finance.- The Commodity Exporting Country: A Spectral Analysis of Brazilian and Australian Financial Markets.- Probabilistic European country risk score forecasting using an epidemiological mathematical model .- Determining the 'fault zone' of fall events in Long Term Care.- Artificial Neural Network Based Approach for Classification of Child Disability.- Evaluating video and facial muscle activity for a better assistive technology: a silent speech-based HCl.- Modelling Replace/Repair Criteria for Returned Biomedical Devices in a Lean Manufacturing Environment.- A complex system approach for spatial modeling of land-use change and settlement growth in early agricultural societies.- City System Vulnerability and Resilience: Oscillatory Dynamics of Urban Hierarchies.- Introducing the Terrorism and Extremism Network Extractor.- Sampling Emerging Threats in Facebook using Bio-inspired Strategies (Random Walks).

Product details

• Assisted by: Dabbaghian (Editor), Dabbaghian (Editor), Vahid Dabbaghian (Editor), Vija Kumar Mago (Editor), Vijay Kumar Mago (Editor), Vijay Kumar Mago (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2013
• EAN: 9783319012841
• ISBN: 978-3-31-901284-1
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 18 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: X, 196 p. 85 illus.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Intelligent Systems Reference Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Artificial Intelligence, engineering, complexity, Computational Intelligence, Cybernetics & systems theory, Applied Dynamical Systems, Computational complexity, Computational Intelligence;Computational Modelling