Magda Osman

Controlling Uncertainty (eBook, PDF)

Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444328233
• Artikelnr.: 38457092

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 disciplinestogether to review and examine current research on how people cancontrol the uncertainties around them." (Reference and ResearchBook News, February 2011)"A clear explanation and integration of complex system ideas inlayperson's language."
--Thomas B. Sheridan, Professor Emeritus, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, US

'The control of complex dynamic tasks is a topic thatspans various and sundry cognitive and social sciences. Bringingunity to these studies has been hampered by differences in jargonand differences in paradigms. Magda Osman has turned herencyclopedic mind to this problem in an attempt to review thesediverse literatures from a common perspective. What she gains is atheoretical unity and purpose of vision that will advance thescientific study of the control of complex dynamic task for manyyears to come.'
--Professor Wayne D. Gray, Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, US