Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds

✍ Scribed by Magda Osman

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 355
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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