Controlling Uncertainty (eBook)

Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds

Magda Osman (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
360 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-2823-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex
Worlds reviews and discusses the most current research relating
to the ways we can control the uncertain world around us.

* Features reviews and discussions of the most current research
in a number of fields relevant to controlling uncertainty, such as
psychology, neuroscience, computer science and engineering

* Presents a new framework that is designed to integrate a
variety of disparate fields of research

* Represents the first book of its kind to provide a general
overview of work related to understanding control

Autor

Magda Osman is a Lecturer in Experimental Cognitive Psychology in Queen Mary University of London. She has published in a wide range of journals on topics ranging from problem solving in abstract, social, and applied settings; motor learning; conscious and unconscious reasoning and decision making; and the cognitive basis of deception.

Inhalt

Preface: The Master Puppeteer.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction.

2. Causation and Agency.

3. Control Systems Engineering.

4. Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning.

5. Human Factors (HCI, Ergonomics and Cognitive
Engineering).

6. Social Psychology, Organizational Psychology and
Management.

7. Cognitive Psychology.

8. Neuroscience.

9. Synthesis.

10. Epilogue: The Master Puppeteer.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"The concepts are presented thoughtfully, clearly, and engagingly."
(Booknews, 1 February 2011)



"Osman (experimental cognitive psychology, Queen Mary U.,
England) brings key ideas from a variety of research disciplines
together to review and examine current research on how people can
control the uncertainties around them." (Reference and Research
Book News, February 2011)

"A clear explanation and integration of complex system ideas in
layperson's language."

--Thomas B. Sheridan, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, US

'The control of complex dynamic tasks is a topic that
spans various and sundry cognitive and social sciences. Bringing
unity to these studies has been hampered by differences in jargon
and differences in paradigms. Magda Osman has turned her
encyclopedic mind to this problem in an attempt to review these
diverse literatures from a common perspective. What she gains is a
theoretical unity and purpose of vision that will advance the
scientific study of the control of complex dynamic task for many
years to come.'

--Professor Wayne D. Gray, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, US

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Organizational & Industrial Psychology • Psychologie • Psychologie i. d. Arbeitswelt • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-2823-9 / 1444328239
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-2823-3 / 9781444328233