The sciences of the artificial /
Herbert A. Simon.
- 3rd ed.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
- xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds --2. Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice -- 3. The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature --4. Remembering and Learning: Memory as Environment for Thought -- 5. The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial -- 6. Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact -- 7. Alternative Views of Complexity -- 8. The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems.