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Computing Possible Futures (Hardcover)
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Computing Possible Futures (Hardcover)
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Mathematical modelling and simulation is an increasingly powerful
area of mathematics and computer science, which in recent years has
been fuelled by the unprecedented access to larger than ever stores
of data. These techniques have an increasing number of applications
in the professional and political spheres, and people try to
predict the results of certain courses of action as accurately as
possible. Computing Possible Futures explores the use of models on
everyday phenomena such as waiting in lines and driving a car,
before expanding the model's complexity to look at how large-scale
computational models can help imagine big scale "what-if" scenarios
like the effect self-driving cars on the US economy. The successes
and failures of complex real world problems are examined, and it is
shown how few, if any, failures are due to model errors or
computational difficulties. It is also shown how real life decision
makers have addressed important problems and used their model-based
understanding of possible futures to inform these decisions.
Written in an entertaining and accessible way, Computing Possible
Futures will help those concerned about the futurity of their
decisions to understand what fundamentally needs to be done, why it
needs to be done, and how to do it.
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