Limits of Predictability /
One of the driving forces behind much of modern science and technology is the desire to foresee and thereby control the future. In recent years, however, it has become clear that, even in a deterministic world, there is alimit to the accuracy with which we can predict the future. This book details,...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1993.
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| Series: | Springer series in synergetics ;
60. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Forecasting Weather and Climate
- How an Active Autowave Medium Can Be Used to Predict the Future
- Synergetics, Predictability and Deterministic Chaos
- The Information-Theoretic Approach to Assessing the Reliability of Forecasts
- Prediction of Time Series
- Fundamental and Practical Limits of Predictability
- The Future is Foreseeable but not Predictable: The 'Oedipus Effect' in Social Forecasting
- The Self-Organization of American Society in Presidential and Senatorial Elections
- Problems of Predictability in Ethnogenic Studies.