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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"complex systems theory"”.
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Aesthetic complexity: practice and perception in art & design
My research investigates the aesthetics of visual complexity in the practice and perception of visual art and design. The aim is to understand visual complexity in terms of the relationship between the objective properties of images and subjective properties of perception. I take a computational …
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Integrated transportation and energy activity-based model
… to the failure of planners to capture all of the complexity inherent in urban dynamics. With the increasing risks of global warming, policymakers and planners need to make optimal or close-to-optimal decisions on how to use the available resources in order to reduce energy and fuel consumption. …
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A Complex Systems Model for Understanding the Causes of Corruption: Case Study - Turkey
… and sociology literatures on the issue, a complex systems theoretical model is constructed. A political system consists of five main components: Society, interest aggregators, legislative, executive and private sector, and the human actors in these domains. It is hypothesized that when the …
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Participative water demand management as an adaptive response within complex socio-institutional systems: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
… and adapted strategies. However, adaptation theory is proving difficult to implement. A range of serious practical issues are emerging as adaptation moves from theory to implementation. One of these is that the implementation of water demand management strategies are not aligned with the …
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A multidisciplinary approach to complex systems design
The design and management of organised systems, comprised of dynamic interdependent collectives of autonomous agents, is the kind of problem that the discipline of complex systems is intended to address. Nevertheless, conventional model-based applications of complex systems may be of limited …
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Education for togetherness and harmony; Learning and teaching through lived experiences
… and inform teaching practices, schooling systems and policies for LTLT due to the lack of a coherent conceptual framework based on classroom practices and a sustained international aid and research focus on literacy and numeracy. In India, there has been a long-standing interest in …
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Narrowing the Opportunity Gap: Developing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
… ecology, and finally the salient components of complex systems as seen through connections through Martin Heidegger’s notions of being and time.</p>