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1	The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the themes and tools - chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms - for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. ... see all copies from £14.30! new only from £18.55!
2	Administrative Behavior, 4th Edition more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist Originally published in 1947, the fourth edition of this title investigates the impact of changing social values and modern technology on the operation of organisations. Written for managers and other professionals, as well as students in related areas who wish to understand the decision-making processes at the heart of organisation and management. see all copies from £6.25! new only from £11.36!
3	Organizations more books like this by James G March, Herbert A Simon add to wishlist This new edition places the material in its contemporary context, whilst still preserving the 1958 text. It examines such concepts as bounded rationality, satisficing, inducement/contribution balances, problem solving and uncertainty absorption. The text also explores organization theory, decision making, bureaucracy, conflict, cognitive limits on ... see all copies from £12.15! new only from £19.09!
4	Models of my life more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist In this autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those scholars whose work may define fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in ... see all copies from £16.83! new only from £97.12! \| first editions
5	Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £4.72!
6	Sciences of the Artificial more books like this by Herbert A Simon add to wishlist The Sciences of the Artificial reveals the design of an intellectual structure aimed at accommodating those empirical phenomena that are "artificial" rather than "natural." see all copies from £9.18!
7	Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes more books like this by Patrick Langley, Gary L Bradshaw, Herbert A Simon add to wishlist Scientific Discovery examines the nature of scientific research; reviews the arguments for and against a normative theory of discovery; describes the evolution of the BACON programs, which discover quantitative empirical laws and invent new concepts; presents programs that discover laws in qualitative and quantitative data; and ties the results ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £12.53! \| first editions
8	Exploring Science: The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes more books like this by David Klahr, Herbert A Simon (Foreword by) add to wishlist Einstein said that "the whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking". David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about congition - and hence about everyday thinking - to advance our understanding of scientific thinking. In this book he sets out to describe the congitive and developmental processes that have enabled ... see all copies from £11.22! new only from £15.40! \| first editions
9	Models of Thought: Volume I by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon has in the past quarter century been in the front line of the information-processing revolution; in fact, to a remarkable extent his and his colleagues' contributions have written the history of that revolution in cognitive psychology. This book brings together papers dating from the start of Simon's career to the ... see all copies from £12.22! new only from £28.91!
10	The New Professor's Handbook: A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science more books like this by Susan A Ambrose, Cliff I Davidson, Herbert A Simon (Foreword by) add to wishlist This book is an ideal resource for those making the transition from graduate student to new faculty member in engineering and science. Developed through years of use with new faculty, it tackles the two themes that will be constant in a young faculty member's career: teaching and research. The book first distills the abundant literature that has ... see all copies from £8.70! new only from £16.80!
11	Public Administration more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon, Victor Alexander Thompson, Donald W Smithburg add to wishlist see all copies from £13.70! new only from £24.43! \| first editions
12 view cover	Protocol Analysis, Revised Edition: Verbal Reports as Data more books like this by Herbert A Simon, K Anders Ericsson add to wishlist Since the publication of Ericsson and Simon's work in the early 1980s, verbal data has been used increasingly to study cognitive processes in many areas of psychology, and concurrent and retrospective verbal reports are now generally accepted as important sources of data on subjects' cognitive processes in specific tasks. In this revised edition ... see all copies from £13.68! new only from £22.40!
13 view cover	Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems more books like this by Werner Callebaut (Editor), Diego Rasskin-Gutman (Editor), Herbert A Simon (Foreword by) add to wishlist Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, ... see all copies from £18.43! new only from £18.43!
14	Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data more books like this by K Anders Ericsson add to wishlist Since the publication of Ericsson and Simon's work in the early 1980s, verbal data has been used increasingly to study cognitive processes in many areas of psychology, and concurrent and retrospective verbal reports are now generally accepted as important sources of data on subjects' cognitive processes in specific tasks. In this revised edition ... see all copies from £15.55!
15	The Sciences of the Artificial, 2nd Edition more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist "[A] thoughtful synthesis of Simon's conception of complexity--how it arises, how it can be studied by a scientist, and how it can be coped with, adapted to, and understood by intelligent entities such as human beings and 'artificial intelligence' programs." --Science see all copies from £6.86! new only from £19.94!
16 view cover	Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1: Economic Analysis and Public Policy more books like this by Herbert A Simon add to wishlist Most of Simon's papers on classical and neoclassical economic theory are contained in volume one. see all copies from £20.05! new only from £38.63! \| first editions
17 view cover	Models of Discovery more books like this by Herbert A Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £16.72! new only from £128.21! \| first editions
18	The New Science of Management Decision more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £7.16! first editions
19 view cover	An Empirically Based Microeconomics more books like this by Herbert A Simon add to wishlist In his Mattioli Lectures, Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon directs attention to the kinds of empirical research that are necessary for progress in microeconomics. He traces the development of neoclassical economic theory and its gradual retreat from empiricism to abstraction. He then discusses the importance of business firms to the ... see all copies from £19.13! new only from £19.13!
20	Administrative Behavior more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £5.77!
21	Representation and Meaning: Experiments with Information Processing Systems more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
22	Models of Thought more books like this by Herbert Alexander Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £20.55! first editions
23	Human Problem Solving more books like this by Herbert A Simon, Allen Newell add to wishlist see all copies from £135.97! first editions
24	Models of discovery, and other topics in the methods of science more books like this by Herbert A. Simon add to wishlist see all copies from £34.90!
25	Models of Bounded Rationality and Other Topics in Economics - Vol. 2: Collected Papers more books like this by Herbert A Simon add to wishlist The second volume collects his papers on behavioral theory, with some overlap between the two volumes. see all copies from £35.52!

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