Modularity
Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
$117.91
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2009
Summary
Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity-the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units-is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513265 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262513269 |
| Author: | Werner Callebaut, Diego Rasskin-Gutman, Herbert A. Simon |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 839g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Modularity |
About The Author
Werner Callebaut
The late Werner Callebaut was Scientific Manager of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, and Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Vienna.Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Research Associate and Head of the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain.Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) was an influential psychologist and political scientist, awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1975 Turing Award (with Allen Newell). His many published books include Models of Bounded Rationality and Models of My Life (both published by the MIT Press)..
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