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Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001)

Autor/a de The Sciences of the Artificial

43+ obres 1,491 Membres 11 Ressenyes 5 preferits

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Obres de Herbert A. Simon

The Sciences of the Artificial (1970) 583 exemplars
Models of My Life (1991) 203 exemplars
Organizations (1963) 95 exemplars
Models of Thought, Volume 1 (1979) 32 exemplars
Human Problem Solving (1968) 22 exemplars
Public administration (1991) 12 exemplars
Models of Thought, Volume 2 (1989) 8 exemplars
Psychologie en systeemtheorie (1976) 3 exemplars
Teoria dell'organizzazione (2003) 2 exemplars
CIENCIAS DE LO ARTIFICIAL LAS (1979) 1 exemplars

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Computers and Thought (1963) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Hierarchy Theory: The Challenge of Complex Systems (1973) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Philosophical problems of the social sciences (1965) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Perspectives on Cognitive Science (1981) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars

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very good for its time, and much of it is still meaningful and insightful.
 
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danielskatz | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Dec 26, 2023 |
Questo libro offre una preziosa panoramica di tutti gli aspetti della cultura organizzativa attraverso una discussione approfondita della teoria dell'organizzazione. La minuziosa trattazione di argomenti, quali la razionalità limitata, la soddisfazione, l'equilibrio tra incentivi e contributi e l'assorbimento dell'incertezza, unita alla pratica sul campo, fa di questo libro un testo adatto a chiunque voglia accostarsi alle teorie dell'organizzazione.
 
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claudio.marchisio | Mar 6, 2023 |
This is my first exposure to "systems thinking" from a member of the generation which kicked that term off, along with its sister term "cybernetics". The book reads not so much as a thesis, but as a way of thinking applied to a variety of closely related systems. He uses his new theory of the artificial to exploring his research on the internal environment of the human brain, and how it makes decisions, as well as the economy, and government.

The book includes a window into the research going on in Simon's cohort in the 1960s, from computational brain models such as SOAR, to chess playing bots, to highway planners, to theses on management decision-making. Simon draws on these papers to find the underlying constants that tie the common attributes of the systems together, such as the structure as hierarchical or almost-hierarchical. This is a mix of obvious and misleading. I would say that taking such a fundamental view on systems will give us profound ideas only if we can see them, it will show us obvious ideas which were non-obvious at the time, and will show us gaps in our thought that might be good candidates for exploration. One of these is a learning system which can search a tree of concepts MCTS style but applies an idea learned on one leaf immediately to other leaves which might contain similar ideas. Basically, an MCTS which tries to learn and apply patterns.

I'm really happy I discovered this, because it launched my exploration of design as a field.
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4dahalibut | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Dec 13, 2020 |
There are so many concepts in the multiple fields that owe a debt that this work that first appeared here, that it almost seems strange to revisit it. I actually wore my first copy out. The second addition was amended, and added to. Had I realized how different the new edition was, I'd have kept the original.
 
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Lyndatrue | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jan 2, 2014 |

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