| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Building a New Science for a Complex World. Complex Science for a Complex World: An Introduction -- Towards a New Ontology of Complexity Science -- Agents, Icons and Idols -- The Uncertain Fate of Self-Defeating Systems -- The Structure of Social Networks -- Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialisation -- Part II. Exploring National Research Priorities with Agents -- Sustainability Assessment of Housing Developments: A New Methodology -- WISDOM-II: A Network Centric Model for Warfare -- Managing Agricultural Pest and Disease Incursions: An Application of Agent-Based Modelling -- SimDrug: A Multi-Agent System Tackling the Complexity of Illicit Drug Markets in Australia -- NEMSIM: Finding Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Multi-Agent Electricity Modelling -- AtollGame: A Companion Modelling Experience in the Pacific -- Multiple-Use Management Strategy Evaluation for Coastal Marine Ecosystems Using InVitro -- Rangeland Consolidation Patterns in Australia: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach. |
| Summary |
Purpose is to attract more early career scientists into the editors' field of research and to convince decision-makers that a growing contingent of colleagues working on complexity theory can provide useful tools and methods to better understand complex and adaptive environments. |
| Subject |
Human ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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| Added Author |
Perez, Pascal, 1961-
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Batten, David F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1920942386 |
| ISBN |
9781920942397 (electronic bk.) |
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1920942394 (electronic bk.) |
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