NEW PARADIGMS AND NEW CHALLENGES Paul K . Davis The RAND Corporation and The RAND

VIII. Eight Basic Pitfalls: A checklist

A significant new approach inevitably spawns criticism. If it serves a constructive purpose the criticism is healthy indeed; if it inspires literary talent (e.g., Hoos and Adams on Systems Analysis) it can even be entertaining. The most extensive critique of Delphi available at present, the Sackman Report, fails both tests. Ironically this study from the RAND Corporation raises its voice in rig...

NEW PARADIGMS AND NEW CHALLENGES Paul

This paper lays out provocative assertions about major challenges for the modeling and simulation community. One relates to building M&S for the purpose of assisting the search for strategies that are flexible, adaptive, and robust despite uncertainty. A key aspect of this search is exploratory analysis, coupled with selective zoom. These, in turn, require multiresolution modeling with sound mo...

A Review of the Contextual Adaptability of Three Contemporary Urban Paradigms: New Urbanism, Urban Village and Urban Renaissance

On non-Turing models of computation

© 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. John Casti received his Ph.D. in mathematics under Richard Bellman at the University of Southern California in 1970. He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA, and served on the faculties of the University of Arizona, NYU, and Princeton before becoming one of the first members of the research staff at the International Institute for Applied Systems Ana...

Analysis of information behavior paradigms: past and present

Introduction: Information behavior in knowledge and information science is seen as a fundamental human behavior that has been studied extensively thus far. This study include different approaches and perspectives that examined information behavior. The purpose of this article is to investigate the paradigm shift in information behavior by using the texts of this research ground. Methodology: Th...