Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds

by Magda Osman

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444351804
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/18/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	638 KB

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

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.

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From the Publisher

"A clear explanation and integration of complex system ideas in layperson’s language."
—Thomas B. Sheridan, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

‘The control of complex dynamic tasks is a topic that spans various and sundry cognitive and social sciences. Bringing unity to these studies has been hampered by differences in jargon and differences in paradigms. Magda Osman has turned her encyclopedic mind to this problem in an attempt to review these diverse literatures from a common perspective. What she gains is a theoretical unity and purpose of vision that will advance the scientific study of the control of complex dynamic task for many years to come.’
—Professor Wayne D. Gray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

Editorial Reviews

"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 disciplines together to review and examine current research on how people can control the uncertainties around them." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)

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