{"product_id":"computing-possible-futures-hardcover","title":"Computing Possible Futures - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam B. Rouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathematical 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eComputing Possible Futures\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in an entertaining and accessible way, \u003cem\u003eComputing Possible Futures\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam B. Rouse, \u003cem\u003eResearch Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam B. Rouse is Research Professor within the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Professor Emeritus, and former chair, of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written many books on modelling complex systems and enterprises, technology management and innovation. He lives in Washington, DC.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47214113685753,"sku":"9780198846420","price":68.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nWhq6a4iMA9780198846420.webp?v=1768112164","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/computing-possible-futures-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}