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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Social Physics"”.
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Bytes of Evolution : essays on applying social physics lessons for management effectiveness
… data collection to analyze the easily missed social cues critical to understand and improve a socio-technical system. We test our hypothesis by applying it to three disparate systems ranging in size, complexity, and processes. In the LVPEI experiment, we identified that prolonged patient wait …
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The conceptual development of population and variation as foundations of econometric analysis
… of political arithmetic, observational errors. social physics, natural selection and economic motion. Through these interactions the concept of statistical population changed. There was a shift in emphasis from the assumption of equivalence of constituents and from the mean as a manifestation of …
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Understanding the Co-emergence of Urban Location Choice and Mobility Patterns: Empirical Studies and an Integrated Geospatial and Agent-based Model
… theories and concepts from urban economics, social-physics, transportation studies, and the complexity sciences have underpinned empirical research and development of state-of-the-art simulation models to explore the land-use and travel nexus. Using a case study design and selecting the …
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Who knows where : a treatise on indisciplinary thinking
… seemingly new ideology whose goal is to form a 'social physics' that controls, optimizes, and predicts both labor and dwelling. As a cybernetics that alleges to cognitively capture the environment and reproduce the self through data accumulation, surveillance and the ever-changing representations …
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The Loss of the Philosophic Tradition and the Rise of the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
… and as a basis for methodologically directing social and political reorganization. Essentially, Positive politics would as the theorist proposed, be free of abstract speculation (metaphysics) and work to reframe human nature by achieving a universal social state defined by 'Order and Progress' …