1. Mathematical Modeling in Social Sciences and Engineering
- Author
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Micó, Rafael Jacinto Villnueva, Sánchez, Lucas Antonio Jódar, López, Juan Carlos Cortés, Micó, Rafael Jacinto Villnueva, Sánchez, Lucas Antonio Jódar, and López, Juan Carlos Cortés
- Subjects
- Social sciences--Mathematical models, Engineering--Mathematical models
- Abstract
This book is devoted to the power of mathematical modeling to give an answer to a broad diversity of real problems including medicine, finance, social behavioral problems and many engineering problems. Mathematical modeling in social sciences is very recent and comes with special challenges such as the difficulty to manage human behavior, the role of the model hypothesis with the objectivity/subjectivity and the proper understanding of the conclusions. In this book, the reader will find several behavioral mathematical models that in fact may be understood as the so-called epidemiological models in the sense that they deal with populations instead of individuals.
- Published
- 2014