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Browning Agents and Active Particles : Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences

Lays out a vision for a coherent framework for understanding complex systems'' (from the foreword by J. Doyne Farmer). By developing the genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author combines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle physics. This way, an efficient method for computer simulations of complex systems is developed which is also accessible to analytical investigations and quantitative predictions. The book demonstrates that Brownian agent models can be successfully applied in many different contexts, ranging from physicochemical pattern formation, to active motion and swarming in biological systems, to self-assembling of networks, evolutionary optimization, urban growth, economic agglomeration and even social systems.

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Approval Voting

The book proposes a compelling way to elect some 500,000 officials in public elections. After a generation of discussion and debate on the subject, the authors remain convinced that Approval Voting is as relevant today.

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Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis

This book presents the tools and concepts of multivariate data analysis in a way that is understandable for non-mathematicians and practitioners who face statistical data analysis.

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