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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262354745
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 August 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12107.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262354745
Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird. Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including economic systems, the business firm, artificial intelligence, complex engineering projects, and social plans, Simon argues that designed systems are a valid field of study, and he proposes a science of design. For this third edition, originally published in 1996, Simon added new material that takes into account advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. Simon won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations and the Turing Award (considered by some the computer science equivalent to the Nobel) with Allen Newell in 1975 for contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. The Sciences of the Artificial distills the essence of Simon's thought accessibly and coherently. This reissue of the third edition makes a pioneering work available to a new audience.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262283649
Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing (acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverable optimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rational calculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely why more empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, is needed. Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career—in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science—his central aim has been to explain the nature of the thought processes that people use in making decisions. The third volume of Simon's collected papers continues this theme, bringing together work on this and other economics-related topics that have occupied his attention in the 1980s and 1990s: how to represent causal ordering formally in dynamic systems, the implications for society of new electronic information systems, employee and managerial motivation in the business firm (specifically the implications for economics of the propensity of human beings to identify with the goals of organizations), and the state of economics itself. Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing (acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverable optimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rational calculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely why more empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, is needed. The twenty-seven articles, in five sections, each with an introduction by the author, examine the modeling of economic systems, technological change: information technology, motivation and the theory of the firm, and behavioral economics and bounded rationality.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262283649
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262283649
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262283649
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.003.0024
EISBN: 9780262283649
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 July 1997
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4711.003.0025
EISBN: 9780262283649