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This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems. The aim is to provide scientists with different backgrounds - physics, applied mathematics and computer sciences - with the opportunity to apply the tools of their trade to an altogether new range of possible applications. At the same time, this book will serve as a first reference for a new generation of social scientists and psychologists wishing to familiarize themselves with the new methodology and the "thinking in complexity".

Social psychology --- Complex organizations --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Sciences - General --- Social Change --- Secondary groups --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Social sciences. --- Sociophysics. --- Econophysics. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Social Sciences. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Complexity. --- Social psychology. --- Complex organizations. --- Organizational sociology --- Interorganizational relations --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Social sciences --- Consciousness. --- Engineering. --- Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. --- Methodology. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- Self --- Computational complexity. --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Economics --- Statistical physics --- Mathematical sociology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Statistical methods

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Bridges --- Maintenance and repair --- Congresses --- Evaluation --- Bridges - Maintenance and repair - Congresses. --- Bridges - Evaluation - Congresses. --- Numerical analysis. --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Bridges - Maintenance and repair - Congresses --- Bridges - Evaluation - Congresses --- Bridges structures --- Fatigue life --- Maintenance management --- Management systems

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The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances. Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger information sets and the exploration of disequilibrium behavior. The domain-based chapters of this work illustrate how economic theory is the only branch of social sciences which still holds to its old paradigm of an equilibrium science - an assumption that has already been relaxed in all related fields of research in the light of recent advances in complex and dynamical systems theory and related data mining. The other chapters give various takes on policy and decision making in this context. Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work.

Engineering. --- Fluid mechanics. --- Building construction. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Offshore Engineering. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. --- Natural Resource and Energy Economics. --- Engineering Fluid Dynamics. --- Green energy industries --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Hydromechanics --- Construction --- Renewable energy resources. --- Energy industries --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Continuum mechanics --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Ocean engineering. --- Natural resources. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Deep-sea engineering --- Oceaneering --- Submarine engineering --- Underwater engineering --- Marine resources --- Oceanography --- Economic aspects --- Equipment and supplies --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Renewable and Green Energy --- Sociophysics. --- Econophysics. --- Social sciences. --- Economic theory. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Computational complexity. --- Social sciences—Data processing. --- Social sciences—Computer programs. --- Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Complexity. --- Computational Social Sciences. --- Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building --- Methodology of the Social Sciences --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods --- Operations Research/Decision Theory --- Complexity --- Computational Social Sciences --- Complex Systems --- Biotechnology --- Quantitative Economics --- Operations Research and Decision Theory --- Applied Dynamical Systems --- Behavioral economics --- Complex socio-economic systems --- Econophysics and Social Dynamics --- Information economy and policy informatics --- Paradigm shift in economic thinking --- Social dynamics in policy --- Quantitative social sciences --- Social research & statistics --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Economic theory & philosophy --- Operational research --- Management decision making --- Cybernetics & systems theory --- Computer applications in the social & behavioural sciences

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Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations, from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity to intimate relationships.  Yet, it can become among the most serious social problems humans face when it loses its constructive features and becomes protracted over time with no obvious means of resolution.  This book addresses the subject of intractable social conflict from a new vantage point.  Here, these types of conflict represent self-organizing phenomena, emerging quite naturally from the ongoing dynamics in human interaction at any scale—from the interpersonal to the international.  Using the universal language and computational framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory in combination with recent insights from social psychology, intractable conflict is understood as a system locked in special attractor states that constrain the thoughts and actions of the parties to the conflict.  The emergence and maintenance of attractors for conflict can be described by means of formal models that incorporate the results of computer simulations, experiments, field research, and archival analyses.  Multi-disciplinary research reflecting these approaches provides encouraging support for the dynamical systems perspective.  Importantly, this text presents new views on conflict resolution.  In contrast to traditional approaches that tend to focus on basic, short-lived cause-effect relations, the dynamical perspective emphasizes the temporal patterns and potential for emergence in destructive relations.  Attractor deconstruction entails restoring complexity to a conflict scenario by isolating elements or changing the feedback loops among them.  The creation of a latent attractor trades on the tendency toward multi-stability in dynamical systems and entails the consolidation of incongruent (positive) elements into a coherent structure.  In the bifurcation scenario, factors are identified that can change the number and types of attractors in a conflict scenario.  The implementation of these strategies may hold the key to unlocking intractable conflict, creating the potential for constructive social relations.   .

Conflict (Psychology). --- Social conflict. --- Socioeconomic factors. --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Social psychology. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Social sciences. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Psychology. --- Social Sciences. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Complexity. --- Psychology, general. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Mathematical statistics --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Statistical methods --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Social sciences --- Engineering. --- Philosophy (General). --- Complex Systems. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Methodology. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Computational complexity.