Limits of Predictability
By: edited by Yurii A. Kravtsov
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics -- 60; Springer series in synergetics -- 60.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783642510106; 9783642510083
Subjects: Economics; Physics
Description: 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, in a largely nontechnical style, the extent to which we can predict the future development of various physical, biological and socio-economic processes.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; title: Forecasting Weather and Climate; title: How an Active Autowave Medium Can Be Used to Predict the Future; title: Synergetics, Predictability and Deterministic Chaos; title: The Information-Theoretic Approach to Assessing the Reliability of Forecasts; title: Prediction of Time Series; title: Fundamental and Practical Limits of Predictability; title: The Future is Foreseeable but not Predictable: The 'Oedipus Effect' in Social Forecasting; title: The Self-Organization of American Society in Presidential and Senatorial Elections; title: Problems of Predictability in Ethnogenic Studies.