Description
This influential work examines the science of design and the ways people create, organize, and understand complex artificial systems—from machines and computer programs to organizations and economic institutions. Drawing on artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, economics, and systems theory, it explores how intelligent behavior can emerge through symbolic processes and how bounded minds solve problems in an intricate world. The revised edition expands the discussion to include chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms, and other approaches to complexity, while refining its account of design and decision-making. Combining rigorous analysis with broad intellectual reach, it remains a foundational exploration of what it means to build and reason about the artificial.
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paperback
MIT Press
Published Jan 1, 1996
231 pages
ISBN: 9780262691918
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First Published
1969
Language
eng
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