Plan prediction : which policy is preferred by which people? /: which policy is preferred by which people?. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ray Wyatt.
• Authors: Wyatt, Ray
• Contents: School -- College -- Career -- Practicality -- Productivity -- Prudence -- Software -- Responses -- Reverse Engineering it. Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Common Sense Plan Prediction; 1 School; 1.1 Birthday; 1.2 Elevators; 1.3 Game Show; 1.4 Parking Meters; 1.5 Hills; 1.6 Tournament; 1.7 Computerized Chess; 1.8 Rebecca; 1.9 Corporate Behaviour; 1.10 Mr. P and the Twins; 1.11 Exercises; 2 College; 2.1 Basic Needs; 2.2 Sniper; 2.3 Crime Rate; 2.4 Primeval Life; 2.5 Consciousness; 2.6 Extensions; 2.7 Traffic; 2.8 Goals-Achievement Matrix; 2.9 World Records; 2.10 Schizophrenia; 2.11 Exercises; 3 Career; 3.1 Gravity Train; 3.2 Shoes; 3.3 Academia; 3.4 Urban Planning; 3.5 Personal Rapid Transit (PRT); 3.6 Puzzles 3.7 Cartograms3.8 Face Charts; 3.9 Implanted Computers; 3.10 Exercises; Plan-Prediction Parameters; 4 Practicality; 4.1 Safety; 4.1.1 Modifiable Areas; 4.1.2 Cumulative Uncertainty; 4.1.3 Conservatism; 4.2 Ease; 4.2.1 Creativity; 4.2.2 Computerized Creativity; 4.3 Speed; 4.3.1 Rationality; 4.3.2 Hermeneutics; 4.3.3 Irrationality; 4.4 Exercises; 5 Productivity; 5.1 Effectiveness; 5.1.1 Multivariate Analysis; 5.1.2 Goal Hierarchies; 5.1.3 Simulation; 5.2 Efficiency; 5.2.1 Changing Attitudes; 5.2.2 Emotion; 5.3 Timeliness; 5.3.1 Futurology; 5.3.2 Awareness; 5.3.3 Technological Utopia 5.4 Exercises6 Prudence; 6.1 Acceptability; 6.1.1 Propaganda; 6.1.2 Groupthink; 6.1.3 Decision Support; 6.2 Permissiveness; 6.2.1 Optimization; 6.2.2 Flexibility; 6.3 Independence; 6.3.1 Operations Research; 6.3.2 Collaborative Planning; 6.4 Exercises; A Plan-Prediction System; 7 Software; 7.1 Balanced Planning; 7.2 Integrity of Design; 7.3 Graphic Clarity; 7.4 Evaluation Criteria; 7.5 Regression-Based Forecasting; 7.6 System Validation; 7.7 The App; 7.8 Exercises; 8 Responses; 8.1 Anti Computerization; 8.2 Pro Computerization; 8.3 Adjudication; 8.4 Role Playing; 8.5 Politics 8.6 Cultural Influences8.7 Consciousness Expansion; 8.8 Exercises; 9 Reverse Engineering It; 9.1 Plan Tolerance; 9.2 Planning Styles; 9.3 East Versus West; 9.4 Inter-group Comparisons; 9.5 Score-Scapes; 9.6 Supporter-Scapes; 9.7 Exercises; References; Internet Sources
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4/03; 620; Engineering; Decision support systems; Decision support systems; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Science -- System Theory; Public administration; Operational research; Cybernetics & systems theory; Engineering economy; Public policy; Operations research; Systems theory; Technology & Engineering -- General; Engineering: general; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319464305; 3319464302
• Related ISBNs: 9783319464299
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 7, 2016).
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