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Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies
Author(s): Erica Jen
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 24 Mar. 2005
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195165330
- ISBN-13: 9780195165333
Book Description
Robust Design brings together 16 chapters by an eminent group of authors in a wide range of fields presenting aspects of robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems. The volume is the first to address robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems. It is an outgrowth of a new research program on robustness at the Sante Fe Institute founded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. For those interested in complexity orinterdisciplinary science, robustness is seen as currently among the most intellectually active and promising research areas with important applications in all fields of science, business, and economics.
Editorial Reviews
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"A wide community of scientists and engineers, who increasingly rely on interdisciplinary efforts to tack their research problems, will appreciate the systems-level perspective their book provides. The authors make a nice attempt to present a comprehensive picture of a systems-level property with wide-reaching implications."-- Quarterly Review of Biology
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For those interested in complexity or interdisciplinary science, "robustness" is currently among the most intellectually active and promising areas of research. Important applications in the fields of science, business, and economics are presented in contributions from an eminent group of authors.
