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This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface between complexity and art. Among others, it includes discussions on whether ""good"" art is ""complex"" art, how artists see the term ""complex"", and what poets try to convey in word about complex behavior in nature.

Differential geometry. Global analysis --- Science and the arts --- Complexity (Philosophy) in art --- Arts and science --- Arts --- 7.01 --- esthetica --- kunst --- kunst en wetenschap --- kunsttheorie

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"The systems that surround us are often multidimensional, and complex, consisting of a large collection of networked components with convoluted connections between them. Designing and managing such systems can be challenging, particularly in organizations. Designing and Managing Complex Systems introduces readers to the theory of complex systems, examining the role of human within larger systems, the factors that affect system performance, and how such systems can be optimized. The first section reviews the history of one particularly fruitful approach to complexity, one based on knowledge of the human nervous system. Next, the author discusses the current understanding of complex systems in a variety of domains including physical, biological, mechanical, and organizational. Within these chapters the author also introduces the idea that there are marked similarities in how complexity is successfully managed across these different domains and how the ideas from one domain can be useful in other domains. Next, these ideas are synthesized into a framework for successfully designing and managing complex systems. The fourth section focuses on case studies concerning failures and successes within complex systems."--

Human engineering. --- System design. --- Design, System --- Systems design --- Electronic data processing --- System analysis --- Ergonomics --- Human factors in engineering design --- Bioengineering --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Human comfort --- Human-robot interaction --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Biocomplexity. --- Technological complexity. --- Complexity (Philosophy) in art. --- Philosophy and science. --- Organizational change. --- Organizational effectiveness. --- Efficiency, Organizational --- Organizational Innovation --- Systems Analysis --- Philosophy --- Efficiency, Organizational. --- Organizational Innovation. --- Systems Analysis. --- Philosophy.