Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds

"Osman (experimental cognitive psychology, Queen Mary U., England) brings key ideas from a variety of research disciplines together to review and examine current research on how people can control the uncertainties around them." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)

"A clear explanation and integration of complex system ideas in layperson’s language."
—Thomas B. Sheridan, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

‘The control of complex dynamic tasks is a topic that spans various and sundry cognitive and social sciences. Bringing unity to these studies has been hampered by differences in jargon and differences in paradigms. Magda Osman has turned her encyclopedic mind to this problem in an attempt to review these diverse literatures from a common perspective. What she gains is a theoretical unity and purpose of vision that will advance the scientific study of the control of complex dynamic task for many years to come.’
—Professor Wayne D. Gray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US