Author: Anthony J Cataldo II
Publisher: JAI Pre
Keywords: financial, managerial, accounting, theories, studies, concept, asymmetry, volume, unifying, information
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2003-12-12
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 0762308745
ISBN-13: 9780762308743
This monograph seeks to provide a theoretical foundation and linkage between financial and managerial accounting. Just as the lines between the CPA-auditor or the financial analyst and consultants, underwriters, and management have been blurred through the Enron audit failure, so, too, will the lines between research streams relating to management (management accounting) and external parties (financial accounting) be less easily drawn. After providing the theoretical foundation for information asymmetry in the first three sections, emphasis shifts to case studies. Section four focuses on case
Authors:Ali A. Minai, Ali A. Minai;Yaneer Bar-Yam,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: complex, systems, england, institute, series, new, complexity, iiia, themes, vol, unifying, overview
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2007-02-21
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540358706
ISBN-13: 9783540358701
In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields. The results have been nothing short of remarkable: their novel approaches have provided answers to long-standing questions in biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology. The Third International Conference on Complex Systems attracted over 400 researchers from around the world. The conference aimed to encourage cross-fertilization between the many disciplines represented and to deepen our understanding of the properties common to
Authors:Ondrej Majer, Ondrej Majer, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, T
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: logic, unity, science, epistemology, language, unifying, games, philosophy
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 140209373X
ISBN-13: 9781402093739
This volume presents mathematical game theory as an interface between logic and philosophy. It provides a discussion of various aspects of this interaction, covering new technical results and examining the philosophical insights that these have yielded. Organized in four sections it offers a balanced mix of papers dedicated to the major trends in the field: the dialogical approach to logic, Hintikka-style game-theoretic semantics, game-theoretic models of various domains (including computation and natural language) and logical analyses of game-theoretic situations. This volume will be of inter
Author: Yaneer Bar-yam
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: complex, systems, conference, new, england, international, institute, proceedings, themes, volume, unifying, first
Number of Pages: 694
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $71.00
ISBN-10: 0813341221
ISBN-13: 9780813341224
The study of complex systems has attracted a broad range of researchers from many disciplines spanning both the hard and soft sciences. In the Autumn of 1997, 300 of these researchers came together for the First International Conference on Complex Systems. The proceedings of this conference is the first book in the New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity and includes more than 100 presentations and papers on topics like evolution, emergence, complexity, self-organization, scaling, informatics, time series, emergence of mind, and engineering of complex systems.
Authors:Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha, Yaneer Bar-Yam,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, complex, institue, england, book, springer, complexity, new, series, international, vol, themes, proceedings, sixth, unifying, conference
Number of Pages: 630
Published: 2010-04-16
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540850805
ISBN-13: 9783540850809
In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields. The results have been nothing short of remarkable: their novel approaches have provided answers to long-standing questions in biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology. "Unifying Themes in Complex Systems" is a well established series of carefully edited conference proceedings that serve the purpose of documenting and archiving the progress of cross-fertilization in this field. About NECSI: For over 10 years, The New England Com
Author: Duane W. Hybertson
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Keywords: systems, complex, engineering, traditional, crc, enterprise, unifying, oriented, science, model, framework
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 142007251X
ISBN-13: 9781420072518
Systems engineering (SE) is experiencing a significant expansion that encompasses increasingly complex systems. However, a common body of knowledge on how to apply complex systems engineering (CSE) has yet to be developed. A combination of people and other autonomous agents, crossing organization boundaries and continually changing, these hybrid systems are less predictable while being more self-organizing and adaptive than traditional systems. The growing pains of this evolution and the ever-widening reach of SE technology require an effective foundation for integrating traditional and comple
Authors:Jay A. Farrell, Marios M. Polycarpou,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: adaptive, approximation, control, systems, signal, communications, series, learning, processing, traditional, based, unifying, neural, fuzzy, approaches
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $121.50
ISBN-10: 0471727881
ISBN-13: 9780471727880
A highly accessible and unified approach to the design and analysis of intelligent control systems Adaptive Approximation Based Control is a tool every control designer should have in his or her control toolbox. Mixing approximation theory, parameter estimation, and feedback control, this book presents a unified approach designed to enable readers to apply adaptive approximation based control to existing systems, and, more importantly, to gain enough intuition and understanding to manipulate and combine it with other control tools for applications that have not been encountered b
