Methods and Interdisciplinarity.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble -- Methods and interdisciplinarity -- The authors Sophie Caillon -- Sophie Gaultier Le Bris -- Yannis Haralambous -- Vanesse Labeyrie -- Pierre Livet -- Jean-Pierre Müller -- Denise Pumain -- Siegfried Rouvrais -- Matthieu Salpeteur -- Mathieu Thomas -- Roger Waldeck -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 1. Promoting and Experimenting with Interdisciplinarity -- 1.1. Iméra project (Institut méditerranéen d'études avancées - Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies) -- 1.2. Testing the typology of interdisciplinarity -- 1.2.1. From formalisms to models and experiments -- 1.2.2. Interacting with cross-disciplinary learning and instrumentation -- 1.2.3. Interdisciplinarity of competing hypotheses and experiments -- 1.2.4. Reflective intertemporal interdisciplinarity -- 1.2.5. Interactions by combining disciplines -- 1.2.6. Interdisciplinarity of reciprocity between contexts -- 1.2.7. Transdisciplinarity between science and the reception of science -- 1.2.8. Transdisciplinarity between arts and sciences -- 1.3. Conclusion -- 2. Geography and Computer Science: Reasons for a Marriage, a Marriage of Reason? -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Computers and numbers: quantifying geography -- 2.2.1. Diversity of practices -- 2.2.2. Epistemological changes driven by computer science rather than conceptual borrowings -- 2.3. Simulation in geography and algorithmic thinking -- 2.3.1. A difficult path -- 2.3.2. Towards a win-win collaboration -- 2.3.3. Geography in all digital objects -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 2.5. References -- 3. Conceptual Modeling and Multidisciplinary Dialogue -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Representation of theoretical discourses -- 3.3. Disciplinary views on species -- 3.4. Sectors and qualities -- 3.5. Validation and communicability -- 3.6. Conclusion.

3.7. References -- 4. Network Analysis: Linking Social and Ecological Dynamics -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.1.1. Societies-environment interactions, what complex systems? -- 4.1.2. Introduction to network formalism -- 4.2. Examples of applications to the study of interactions between societies and the environment -- 4.2.1. Crop seed circulation and social networks -- 4.2.2. Circulation of knowledge and structuring of knowhow -- 4.3. Discussion: a necessary link between the quantitative and the qualitative -- 4.4. References -- 5. Interdisciplinarity and VUCA -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Decision theory -- 5.3. An interdisciplinary look at VUCA -- 5.3.1. VUCA definitions in management -- 5.3.2. Definitions from decision theory -- 5.4. Discussion -- 5.5. References -- 6. Learning Methodology for VUCA Situations -- 6.1. Engineering education &amp -- training and highly reliable organizations -- 6.2. Issues at stake -- 6.2.1. VUCA phenomenon classes -- 6.3. Theoretical framework of organizational reliability -- 6.3.1. Running highly reliable and actionist organizations -- 6.3.2. Selected models -- 6.4. Cross-disciplinary decision-making skills: designoriented research -- 6.4.1. Research methodology for learning -- 6.4.2. From model to reality -- 6.4.3. Learning outcomes -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 6.6. Appendix: level of experience and feedback from IMTA students -- 6.7. References -- 7. Approaches to and Applications of Graphemics -- 7.1. Writing and linguistics -- 7.2. Spectral decomposition to the rescue of linguistics -- 7.3. Application in biometrics -- 7.4. Application in steganography -- 7.4.1. Steganographic approach to Greeklish -- 7.4.2. Steganographic method: evaluation -- 7.5. Conclusion -- 7.6. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies -- EULA.

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