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Journal articles on the topic "Business cycles. Self-organizing systems"

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Mainzer, Klaus. "Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century. An Interdisciplinary Introduction." European Review 17, no. 2 (May 2009): 219–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798709000714.

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The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences from cosmic and quantum systems to cellular organisms and the brain. Even in modern engineering science self-organizing systems are developed to manage complex networks and processes. It is now recognized that many of our ecological, social, economic, and political problems are also of a global, complex, and nonlinear nature. Modern evolutionary economics can be modelled in the framework of complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. Historically, evolutionary economics was inspired by Schumpeterian concepts of business cycles and innovation dynamics. What are the laws of sociodynamics? What can we learn from nonlinear dynamics for complexity management in social, economic, financial and political systems? Is self-organization an acceptable strategy to handle the complexity in firms, institutions and organizations? The world-wide crisis of financial markets and economies is a challenge for complexity research. Misleading concepts of linear thinking and mild randomness (e.g. Gaussian distributions of Brownian motion) must be overcome by new approaches of nonlinear mathematics (e.g. non-Gaussian distribution), modelling the wild randomness of turbulence at the stock markets. Systemic crises need systemic answers. Nevertheless, human cognitive capabilities are often overwhelmed by the complexity of nonlinear systems they are forced to manage. Traditional mathematical decision theory assumed perfect rationality of economic agents (homo oeconomicus). Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize laureate of economics and one of the leading pioneers of systems science and cognitive science, introduced the principle of bounded rationality. Therefore, we need new insights into the factual microeconomic behaviour of economic agents by methods of humanities, cognitive and social sciences, which are sometimes called ‘experimental economics’. Social and economic dynamics are interdisciplinary challenges of modern complexity research.
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M. Randall, Robert. "Agile at IBM: software developers teach a new dance step to management." Strategy & Leadership 42, no. 2 (March 11, 2014): 26–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sl-01-2014-0003.

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Purpose – Explains how companies that are seeking to implement rapid innovation can adopt the Agile software development approach. In Agile, self-organizing teams work in short cycles called “sprints” and develop the features to enable the product to continuously evolve in the light of the experience they gain and through customer feedback. Design/methodology/approach – For insight into how Agile is being implemented at a leading software services firm with clients in hundreds of industries, Strategy & Leadership asked Rob Purdie, Agile Practice Lead for the IBM Design Lab, how Agile software development methods were contributing to the success of IBM's key digital marketing initiatives. Findings – The traditional approach to software development is to define, design, develop and test everything – before delivering anything. With Agile, managers can reduce waste by prioritizing features based on relative business value, evaluating and re-designing as the project proceeds. Practical implications – Agile requires leaders and teams to work and learn through problems, designs and options in an open and transparent environment. It places new demands on technical leaders in terms of negotiation and planning skills. Originality/value – Managers outside the software industry should note that Agile/Scrum is likely to be increasingly essential to the future of product development and manufacturing. Nowadays many products for consumers and businesses include embedded software systems, so developing products in the future will require deeper collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines and marketing teams and familiarity with the Agile approach.
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Kiisler, Ain. "LOGISTICS IN ESTONIAN BUSINESS COMPANIES." TRANSPORT 23, no. 4 (December 31, 2008): 356–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648-4142.2008.23.356-362.

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The article describes logistics survey in Estonia carried out in 2007 as a part of the LogOnBaltic project. The level of logistics in Estonian manufacturing, trading and logistics companies is explored through logistics costs, performance indicators, outsourcing, ICT use and logistics self‐estimation of the companies responded. Responses from 186 Estonian companies were gathered through a web‐based survey (38% of manufacturing, 38% of trading and 24% of logistics sector). Logistics costs as the percentage of turnover make in average 13.8% in manufacturing and 13.3% in trading. Transportation and inventory carrying cost form around 70% of overall logistics costs. Considering the logistics indicators surveyed, Estonian companies show up with relatively low perfect order fulfillment rates, short customer order fulfillment cycles and effective management of cash flows. The most widely outsourced logistics function is international transportation followed by domestic transportation, freight forwarding and reverse logistics. By 2010, the outsourcing of IT systems in logistics followed by inventory management, warehousing and product customization is expected to increase more substantially. The awareness of logistics importance is still low among Estonian companies. Only 27–44% of those agree that logistics has a considerable impact on profitability, competitive advantage, top management or customer service level.
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Vargas-Santiago, Mariano, Luis Morales-Rosales, Raul Monroy, Saul Pomares-Hernandez, and Khalil Drira. "Autonomic Web Services Based on Different Adaptive Quasi-Asynchronous Checkpointing Techniques." Applied Sciences 10, no. 7 (April 5, 2020): 2495. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10072495.

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Companies, organizations and individuals use Web services to build complex business functionalities. Web services must operate properly in the unreliable Internet infrastructure even in the presence of failures. To increase system dependability, organizations, including service providers, adapt their systems to the autonomic computing paradigm. Strategies can vary from having one to all (S-CHOP, self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection) features. Regarding self-healing, an almost identical tool is communication-induced checkpointing (CiC), a checkpoint contains the state (heap, registers, stack, kernel state) for each process in the system. CiC is based on quasi-synchronous checkpointing where processes take checkpoints relying of control information piggybacked inside application messages; however, avoiding dangerous patterns such as Z-paths and Z-cycles; in such a regard the system takes forced checkpoints and avoids inconsistent states. CiC, unlike other tools, does not incur system performance, our proposal does not incur high overhead (as results show), and it has the advantage of being scalable. As we have shown in a previous work, CiC can be used to address dependability problems when dealing with Web services, as CiC mechanism work in a distributed and efficient manner. Therefore, in this work we propose an adaptable and dynamic generation of checkpoints to support fault tolerance. We present an alternative considering Quality of Service (QoS) criteria, and the different impact applications have on it. We propose taking checkpoints dynamically in case of failure or QoS degradation. Experimental results show that our approach has significantly reduced the generation of checkpoints of various well-known tools in the literature.
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van Olffen, Woody, and A. Georges L. Romme. "The Role of Hierarchy in Self-Organizing Systems." Human Systems Management 14, no. 3 (1995): 199–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-1995-14303.

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Länsiluoto, Aapo, Tomas Eklund, Barbro Back, Hannu Vanharanta, and Ari Visa. "Industry‐specific cycles and companies' financial performance comparison using self‐organizing maps." Benchmarking: An International Journal 11, no. 3 (June 2004): 267–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14635770410538754.

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Arango, Santiago, Erik R. Larsen, and Ann van Ackere. "Self-organizing behavior in collective choice models: laboratory experiments." Management Decision 54, no. 2 (March 21, 2016): 288–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-07-2014-0451.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider queuing systems where captive repeat customers select a service facility each period. Are people in such a distributed system, with limited information diffusion, able to approach optimal system performance? How are queues formed? How do people decide which queue to join based on past experience? The authors explore these questions, investigating the effect of information availability, as well as the effect of heterogeneous facility sizes, at the macro (system) and micro (individual performance) levels. Design/methodology/approach – Experimental economics, using a queuing experiment. Findings – The authors find little behavioural difference at the aggregate level, but observe significant variations at the individual level. This leads the authors to the conclusion that it is not sufficient to evaluate system performance by observing average customer allocation and sojourn times at the different facilities; one also needs to consider the individuals’ performance to understand how well the chosen design works. The authors also observe that better information diffusion does not necessarily improve system performance. Practical/implications – Evaluating system performance based on aggregate behaviour can be misleading; however, this is how many systems are evaluated in practice, when only aggregate performance measures are available. This can lead to suboptimal system designs. Originality/value – There has been little theoretical or empirical work on queuing systems with captive repeat customers. This study contributes to the understanding of decision making in such systems, using laboratory experiments based on the cellular automata approach, but with all agents replaced by humans.
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Basara, Heather G., and May Yuan. "Community health assessment using self-organizing maps and geographic information systems." International Journal of Health Geographics 7, no. 1 (2008): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072x-7-67.

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Biggiero, Lucio. "Self-organizing processes in building entrepreneurial networks: a theoretical and empirical investigation." Human Systems Management 20, no. 3 (September 3, 2001): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-2001-20304.

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Self-organization is a property of social systems, and its recognition can give a remarkable contribution to the theory of entrepreneurship and to the analysis of inter-organizational networks. While literature on the classification of inter-firm networks and on their (dis)advantages is relatively abundant, there is much less on the processes of their formation and development. Since the convenience of building inter-firm networks is often uncertain and ambiguous, it involves social-psychological aspects and is based on personal relationships. This is particularly true in the case of small business networks, where the small firm size makes firm networks coincide with entrepreneurial networks. This characteristic can be extended to industrial districts, which are systems emerging from the interplay between small business networks. Industrial districts are weakly hierarchical organizations, which present the typical dual nature of social systems: the systemic nature, which is manifested more at the unity level, considering the district as a whole, and the subjective behavior of its members, which can play a crucial role either in triggering the district or in its evolutionary patterns. Such a double nature becomes a powerful engine of knowledge creation/transfer when organizations are recursive and self-organizing, and when the emerging values promote cooperation and trust. These co-evolutionary, recursive and self-organizing aspects have been synthesized in Nonaka's concept of ‘ba’. The cases discussed here deal with recursive processes in the formation of entrepreneurial networks in the biomedical district and in the formation of the district itself, which are seen as partially self-organizing processes. In the perspective considering knowledge as embodied in human beings and created by their social interactions, this paper concerns self-organizing and knowledge-creating processes at district and network levels.
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Szklarski, J. "Cellular automata model of self-organizing traffic control in urban networks." Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences 58, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 435–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10175-010-0041-3.

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Cellular automata model of self-organizing traffic control in urban networksA model of city traffic based on Nagel-Schreckenberg cellular automaton (CA) model is presented. Traffic control is realized at intersections with two conflicting streams each (at any time at most one stream can have "green light" assigned to it). For simple and regular lattice-like networks which are considered, it is easy to find optimal switching periods giving maximum possible flow rates. These optimal strategies are compared with a self-controlling approach proposed by [1], which has not been implemented in a CA model until now. Previous work proved that generally this method gives superior results when compared to classical methods. In this paper we show that for deterministic scenario such control leads to self-organization, and that the solution always quickly converges to the optimal solution which is known in this case. Moreover, we consider also non-deterministic case, in the sense that possibility of turning with given probability is allowed. It is shown that the self-controlling strategy always gives better results than any solution based on fixed cycles with green waves.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Business cycles. Self-organizing systems"

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Ng, Wai-yan Vivian. "Impact on developing knowledge ecology for business subjects in secondary schools /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25148400.

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吳維欣 and Wai-yan Vivian Ng. "Impact on developing knowledge ecology for business subjects in secondary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31256430.

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Nirei, Makoto. "Sectoral propagation and indivisible input /." 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3039046.

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Carapiet, Saadia. "The role of self-organisation in the handling of adaptive challenges by enterprises." 2006. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/49083.

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This thesis explores self-organisation in SMEs, and has developed a framework for the role of self-organisation in the handling of adaptive challenge by enterprises, based on existing theory and the empirical findings of this study. Analysing self-organisation in three Australian SMEs, a quantitative measure of the ability to self-organise (ASO index) is proposed, with communication as the main driver of self organisation. The efficacy of the ASO index scores for the SMEs is substantiated by empirical evidence of self-organisation.
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Djajadikerta, Geri Hadrian. "Management control in international joint ventures as self organising systems." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/976.

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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Business.
The need for more dynamic views on international joint ventures' control research has recently become a growing concern. Changes in the complexity of relationships between organisations and their environments have led to an increase in control problems and to a need to investigate a suitable framework of management control. The concept of self-organising systems that has emerged with the science of complexity produces some useful and interesting new ways to examine the behaviour of complex systems. Therefore, extending the recent development in self-organising systems into international joint ventures' control research is an opportunity to explore new insights into the development of joint ventures. This study takes an integrative approach by focusing on the integration of management control and self-organising properties of international joint ventures. The purpose of this study is to investigate the roles of management control systems in affecting international joint ventures' performance, from the perspective of alliance complexity constraints. A model of management control in international joint ventures as self-organising systems, representing a complexity-control-outcomes framework, is developed and tested empirically using the partial least square (FLS) approach, a distinctive structural equation modeling (SEM) based technique. The primary results of this study show that formal control mechanisms and control extent have significant direct effects on management automony and the international joint ventures' performance. Management autonomy as an intervening endogenous construct has a significant direct effect on the international joint ventures performance. Significant direct effects of organisational complexity on the formal control mechanisms and control extent are found, and a significant indirect effect of organisational complexity on the management autonomy is found. The overall results suggest a sound link between the complexity-control framework with the control-outcome framework, and the achievement of fit between these two frameworks is important for superior international joint ventures' performance.
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Books on the topic "Business cycles. Self-organizing systems"

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Darwin's unfinished business: The self-organizing intelligence of nature. Rochester, Vt: Park Street Press, 2012.

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Russia) Nauchnyĭ seminar "Samoorganizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ustoĭchivykh t︠s︡elostnosteĭ v prirode i obshchestve" (3rd 1999 Tomsk. Print︠s︡ip neopredelennosti i prognoz razvitii︠a︡ sot︠s︡ialńo-ėkonomicheskikh sistem: Materialy tretʹego Nauchnogo seminara "Samoorganizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ustoĭchivykh t︠s︡elostnosteĭ v prirode i obshchestve". Tomsk: Izd-vo "Spektr" IOA SO RAN, 1999.

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Selbstorganisation verstehen lernen: Komplexität im Umfeld von Wirtschaft und Pädagogik. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1995.

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The emergence of leadership: Linking self-organization and ethics. New York: Routledge, 2001.

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Griffin, Douglas. The Emergence of Leadership. London: Taylor & Francis Group Plc, 2004.

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service), SpringerLink (Online, ed. Complexity, Cognition and the City. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

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Sarafyan, Nubar. Cycles and self-organization. N. Sarafyan, 2000.

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Griffin, Douglas. The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics (Complexity and Emergence in Organisations). Routledge, 2002.

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(Editor), Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa (Editor), and Mario Abram (Editor), eds. Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development. Springer, 2005.

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Seitz, John C., and Christine Firer Hinze, eds. Working Alternatives. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288359.001.0001.

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Popular interest in the kinds of conditions that make work productive, growing media attention to the grinding cycle of poverty, and the widening sense that consumption must become sustainable and just, all contribute to an atmosphere thirsty for humanistic economic analysis. This volume offers such analysis from a novel and generative diversity of vantage points, including religious and secular histories, theological ethics, and business management. In particular, Working Alternatives brings modern Roman Catholic forms of engaging with economic questions—embodied in the evolving set of documents that make up the area of “Catholic social thought”—into conversation with one another and with non-Catholic experiments in economic thought and practice. Clustered not by discipline but by their emphasis on either 1) new ways of seeing economic practice 2) new ways of valuing human activity, or 3) implementation of new ways of working, the volume’s essays facilitate the necessarily interdisciplinary thinking demanded by the complexities of economic sustainability and justice. Collectively, the works gathered here assert and test a challenging and far-reaching hypothesis: economic theories, systems, and practices—ways of conceiving, organizing and enacting work, management, supply, production, exchange, remuneration, wealth, and consumption—rely on basic, often unexamined, presumptions about human personhood, relations, and flourishing.
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Book chapters on the topic "Business cycles. Self-organizing systems"

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Orlando, Giuseppe. "Chaotic Business Cycles within a Kaldor-Kalecki Framework." In Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Self-Excited and Hidden Attractors, 133–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71243-7_6.

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Illibauer, Christa, and Christine Natschläger. "Towards Flexible Business Processes by Supporting Self-Organizing Groups." In Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering, 57–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58801-8_5.

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Hakamata, Morikazu, and Genshirou Kitagawa. "International Transmission of Business Cycles: a Self-organizing Markov-Switching State-Space Model." In Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, 436–46. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06373-6_22.

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"Shocks vs. Impulse-Propagation Model of Economic Dynamics." In Theory of Shocks, COVID-19, and Normative Fundamentals for Policy Responses, 1–28. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4309-2.ch001.

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Ragnar Frisch, the Nobel prizer in economics, drew attention to two phenomena: propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics. His deep scientific contribution relates to the interpretation of business cycle transformed under the influence of impulses (shocks). But some terminological misunderstandings arose. One of them forced the authors to focus on the phenomenon of systems' self-movement: their self-organization in statics and their self-development in dynamics. Another one relates to exogenous nature of impulses (shocks) that forced the authors to prove the endogenous embeddedness of shocks into the mechanisms of dialectical laws implementation. Eugen Slutsky demonstrated the stochastic approach as to random fluctuations as a source of cyclical processes in the economy. The confusion in the concepts of cycles and waves predetermines the need to create a wave theory of systemic self-organization (Chapter 2). Modern shocks theory develops a new approach which makes it possible to eliminate misconceptions of past theories.
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Mai, Stephane Ngo, and Alain Raybaut. "Swift Trust and Self-Organizing Virtual Communities." In Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Business Continuance, 231–51. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-723-2.ch014.

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Numerous communities of experts supported by firms tend nowadays to form an important part of corporate social capital. Composed of free will agents, those communities aim at creating knowledge through cognitive interactions and heavily rely on ICTs to free themselves from many constraints. Previous studies of such virtual groupings pointed out that their organization features were not similar to market nor hierarchy. Consequently, neither price nor contract or authority are used in such communities which rather seem to self-organize. Instead of traditional economic concepts, notions such as trust and leadership are advanced to explain the functioning of these virtual assemblies. This contribution proposed a tentative model which attempts to grasp some of the empirical aspects of these communities. More precisely, we were interested in the relation between trust, performance, and organizational feature within a given virtual group. Simulations of the model with different functions of swift trust display various organizational structures similar to those described by stylized facts. The organizational attributes range from pure collaborative communities to pure competitive ones. Intermediate cases also emerge with the appearance of leader(s).
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Kandjani, Hadi, Peter Bernus, and Lian Wen. "Enterprises as Complex Systems." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 72–98. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4518-9.ch002.

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The concept of self-evolving/self-designing systems is defined using the notion of life cycle relationships. The authors propose that to design complex enterprises as systems of systems on each level of hierarchy one should maintain a self-designing property, that is, the designers should be part of the system. It is explained that by so distributing the design authority, under certain circumstances the “apparent complexity” of the system visible to any one designer can be reduced. To ensure the success of organised self-design, the approach uses their extension of Suh's axiomatic design theory with the “axiom of recursion.” The authors quantitatively demonstrate through two examples the benefits of applying these design axioms in enterprise engineering to reduce the complexity of a system of interest, as well as the complexity of a system which designs the system of interest.
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Vakeel, Khadija Ali. "Mining Big Data for Marketing Intelligence." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 250–58. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2031-3.ch015.

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This chapter elaborates on mining techniques useful in big data analysis. Specifically, it will elaborate on how to use association rule mining, self organizing maps, word cloud, sentiment extraction, network analysis, classification, and clustering for marketing intelligence. The application of these would be on decisions related to market segmentation, targeting and positioning, trend analysis, sales, stock markets and word of mouth. The chapter is divided in two sections of data collection and cleaning where we elaborate on how twitter data can be extracted and mined for marketing decision making. Second part discusses various techniques that can be used in big data analysis for mining content and interaction network.
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Fernandes, Venesser. "The Case for Effectively Using Existing Business Improvement Models in Australian Schools." In Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, 130–57. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8516-9.ch007.

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There is a significant lack of documented research on Australian school improvement that is contextualized within business improvement model settings. This is the case even though Australian schools have been operating within a business environment for a while now. This chapter aims at addressing this gap by discussing what educational quality is within schools. It will present an adapted version for continuous school improvement within school systems in Australia. This adapted version of continuous school improvement provides a theoretical framework on how schools operating as self-managed business systems can ensure that the delivery of educational quality is strategically sustained at the organizational level and that focus remains on the important core business of student learning. This adapted version has been described as strategic TQM and a case is made for its use in Australian schools through five transformations that are brought about through the SCOPE cycle for school improvement.
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Fernandes, Venesser. "The Case for Effectively Using Existing Business Improvement Models in Australian Schools." In Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs, 662–89. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3438-0.ch030.

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There is a significant lack of documented research on Australian school improvement that is contextualized within business improvement model settings. This is the case even though Australian schools have been operating within a business environment for a while now. This chapter aims at addressing this gap by discussing what educational quality is within schools. It will present an adapted version for continuous school improvement within school systems in Australia. This adapted version of continuous school improvement provides a theoretical framework on how schools operating as self-managed business systems can ensure that the delivery of educational quality is strategically sustained at the organizational level and that focus remains on the important core business of student learning. This adapted version has been described as strategic TQM and a case is made for its use in Australian schools through five transformations that are brought about through the SCOPE cycle for school improvement.
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West, David, and Cornelius Muchineuta. "Credit Scoring Using Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Networks." In Neural Networks in Business, 154–66. IGI Global, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-31-0.ch010.

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Some of the concerns that plague developers of neural network decision support systems include: (a) How do I understand the underlying structure of the problem domain; (b) How can I discover unknown imperfections in the data which might detract from the generalization accuracy of the neural network model; and (c) What variables should I include to obtain the best generalization properties in the neural network model? In this paper we explore the combined use of unsupervised and supervised neural networks to address these concerns. We develop and test a credit-scoring application using a self-organizing map and a multilayered feedforward neural network. The final product is a neural network decision support system that facilitates subprime lending and is flexible and adaptive to the needs of e-commerce applications.
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Conference papers on the topic "Business cycles. Self-organizing systems"

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Budenske, John, and Lori Murray. "Decentralized control methods for self-organizing collaborative robotic teams." In Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2018, edited by Raja Suresh. SPIE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2306172.

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"SELF-ORGANIZING AND SELF-REPAIRING MASS MEMORIES FOR AUTOSOPHY MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVING SYSTEMS - Replacing the Data Processing Computer with Self-Learning Machines based on the Autosophy Information Theory." In 2nd International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks. SciTePress - Science and and Technology Publications, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0001412201770182.

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Gulin, S. V., and A. G. Pirkin. "FEATURES OF BUSINESS-PROCESSES IN THE CREATION OF ELECTROTECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FOR THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX." In INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/itno.2020.357-362.

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This article offers a universal methodology for the design, creation and operation of complex electrotechnological systems. This methodology is based on a system-process approach to business modeling. The article provides a detailed description of all private business processes that provide a full cycle of business engineering, and offers a General mathematical expression for a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the business engineering process. The proposed methodology has been tested on the example of designing, creating and operating vegetation climate systems (VCS). This example shows that it is possible to conduct quite serious scientific research at the intersection of plant physiology and electric power engineering, which allows us to create modern self-adjusting systems for automatic microclimate control when growing plants. Application of engineering methods allows to increase the efficiency of development of information systems for automatic control of parameters of the most important physiological processes (photosynthesis, transpiration, etc.) in plants under the influence of environmental factors. The article outlines the prospects for the development of the subject area of engineering in the direction of solving specific problems to integrated energy engineering, and the energy business - from trading individual services to trading models and technologies.
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Butincu, Cristian Nicolae, Adrian Alexandrescu, and Mitica Craus. "A challenge driven platform for development of new business models in the context of self-organizing product-service systems." In 2016 15th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research. IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/roedunet.2016.7753241.

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Barattino, William J., Benjamin J. Cross, D. Jeffrey Smith, Wendi Goldsmith, Scott Foster, Michael Holt, and Paul E. Roege. "The Business Case for SMRs on DOD Installations." In ASME 2011 Small Modular Reactors Symposium. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smr2011-6552.

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U. S. Federal Agencies have been directed to reduce all use of Fossil Fuel Energy in Buildings by 2030. The Department of Defense (DOD) has additional requirements to significantly reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and achieve energy independence for military installations over the next few decades. Installations are empowered to reach these ambitious goals with execution of long term contracts with service providers for power and industrial processes as long as their operating expenditures are lower than costs of existing services. This paper will explore the business case conditions for how Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) located on U.S. Army installations by a servicing utility could provide a viable energy alternative to the DOD for meeting these objectives. A systems perspective is critical toward understanding the potential for SMRs to enable pursing the parallel objectives of reducing fossil fuel usage, making installations energy self-sufficient, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions with long term operations at lower costs. The potential for meeting greenhouse gas emission goals will be analyzed in terms of quantifying the reductions in current emissions footprint of installations that would be achieved with shifting to non-carbon prime energy sources such as SMRs. Actual costs for meeting the energy needs of Army military installations in the U.S. will form the basis for defining the life cycle cost profiles to enable the base commanders to justify long term services contracts. As with any commercial power plant, the upfront costs for construction and startup testing, combined with lower system operating costs, will provide the basis for analyzing required economic lengths of contracts. To navigate the bumps of any new nuclear system, SMR power generating plants must be structured as a “Win-Win” proposition from both private and public sector perspectives. For the private investor, the contract must be constructed to allow for recovery of capital and operating costs by private investors with sufficient return on investment to undertake this type of business opportunity. For the government to engage in the deal, the contract must conform to capital lease requirements for federal contracts, but also demonstrate sufficient savings over existing leased utility services to enable execution of the contract by the military base. A systems approach that addresses life cycle costs at this early stage for SMRs will provide critical insight for Megawatt level power generating systems servicing small towns and communities similar in size to a military base. With the economic framework sufficiently defined to enable public sector commitments, program funding may be more forthcoming for completing SMR development, licensing and permitting phases on a prudent but expedited timeframe.
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Onabanjo, Tosin, and Giuseppina Di Lorenzo. "Energy Efficiency and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Jatropha for Energy in Nigeria: A “Well-to-Wheel” Perspective." In ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2015 Power Conference, the ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2015 Nuclear Forum. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2015-49654.

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There is a large imbalance between demand and supply of energy in Nigeria, with inefficient power supply being the country’s greatest economic bane. Aside energy crisis, fuel is a luxurious commodity and petroleum diesel is the predominant fuel for power generation, particularly in the industrial sector. As a result, the country suffers from forced power outages, and persistent black out while residents and industries are forced to depend on self-generated electricity. These have notably reduced industrialization and increased environmental pollution across the country. This paper proposes the use of Jatropha biodiesel as a substitute fuel to petroleum diesel. It examines the energy efficiency and environmental life cycle impact of the production and use of 1MJ of Jatropha biodiesel in a typical 126 MW (ISO rating) industrial gas turbine power plant with multi-fuel capability using life cycle assessment methodologies and principles. A net energy ratio of 2.37, 1.54, and 1.32 and fossil fuel savings of 58%, 36% and 27% were achievable under three farming system scenarios: a) base-case rain-fed, b) base-case irrigated and c) large scale farming system. Also, an environmental benefit with GHG savings of 19% was attainable under the three farming scenarios. The results demonstrate that the contribution of GHGs and effect on climate change is most significant with the end use of the fuel. It also highlights the importance of clear definition of the reference system which should be indicative of the local production system and comparative to the system under study. A favourable business and economic climate driven by demand is proposed for Independent Power Producer (IPP) to generate power for off-grid users instead of generating power for the national grid using a decentralized Jatropha biodiesel production system coupled to waste to energy technologies. This could significantly improve the energy situation; diversify the energy generation mix and fuel supply in Nigeria, especially for small-scale businesses and the rural population.
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McCallum, Neil R., Colin English, and Bernard Watier. "Development of the Advanced Cycle Low-Power Gas Turbine Alternator (ACL-GTA)." In ASME Turbo Expo 2004: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2004-54302.

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The Royal Navy is pursuing the ‘All Electric’ ship under its Marine Engineering Development Strategy. This strategy envisages the use of long life, fuel efficient, advanced cycle marine gas turbine alternator sets in an Integrated Electric Propulsion system, which includes the wide scale electrification of auxiliary systems. In 2000 the UK Ministry of Defence placed a contract on Turbomeca Limited, France, for the development of a 1.8MW advanced cycle gas turbine driving a high speed alternator, providing 800V DC output. The basic design details of this 1.8MW Gas Turbine Alternator (GTA), known as the ACL GTA, was presented at the Turbo Expo 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. However, since 2003 the design of all the components has been finalised and testing has now commenced on this novel Gas Turbine (GT) technology. The purpose of this paper is to present the first of those test results and describe the final design of the unit on test by constituent parts. These include the bare GT, the recuperator, the directly coupled permanent magnet High Speed Alternator (HSA), its controller the Electronic Unit (EU) and the Monitoring and Control System (MCS). Information will be provided on the individual unit testing and how it is being integrated to ensure project success. The aspects of the design covering control of the power output, self-sustainability and ability to parallel or operate with other diesel generators or GTAs will also be discussed. As an introduction the paper will briefly reiterate the requirement for this GTA and discuss the importance of the commercial business case in conjunction with the military requirements so as to design and build a GTA capable of directly competing with diesel generators.
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Li, Qiu, and Jun Wu. "Nuclear Safety Culture Construction in Nuclear Power Design Enterprise on the Perspective of Knowledge Workers in China." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-15762.

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Design plays a leading role in the whole life cycle of nuclear power production, including site selection, design, manufacture, construction, operation and decommission. The quality of the design products directly affects the intrinsic safety of the nuclear power plant. The quality of final products in design process depends on a number of factors, including not only technology capability, but also the improvement of design quality assurance system, the capability and responsibility of the designers to nuclear safety, the thinking mode and working habit of the designers, and the extent of complete implementation of the review systems at all levels. These factors consequently affect the level of safety of the nuclear power plant. Nuclear power design industry is typical knowledge-intensive business, in which knowledge workers consist of essential assets to the enterprise. The article analyzes the asset structure and staff structure of nuclear power design industries in contrast with other industries, and discusses the contribution of knowledge workers to the development of the enterprise. This paper also tries to document the characteristics of knowledge workers in nuclear power enterprises. They are characteristic of superior income and welfare, high level education and ability, high specialization, and tacit knowledge. Based on these analyses, the article addresses four major principles in nuclear safety culture construction for nuclear power design enterprises as follows: 1. adopt motivation factors as major incentives, 2. emphasize self management, 3. management by objectives (MBO), 4. team work.
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Agostinho, Carlos, Carlos Raposo, and Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves. "Automated Reengineering of Industrial Service-Based Systems." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-65697.

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Complex systems are not of static nature. Most are governed by a particular set of laws and behave accordingly to a certain range of expected inputs and variables, but they can also evolve in response to unforeseen stimulus. The same principle can be applied to industrial information systems. Larger systems such as an entire company or a network of companies may be divided into further subsystems, including information systems, each behaving autonomously but is still under influence of the others, interacting with them in a holistic manner. This paper explores this relationship and proposes a conceptual solution to the strain of sustaining interoperability in complex service-based networks from the domain of manufacturing. To such effect, and in order to tackle the complex relationships and dependencies implicit in web-service environments, information modeling is used, allowing for the optimization of several service engineering activities and enterprise business processes while maximizing the efficiency of system’s interactions. Hence, service modeling and orchestration is here suggested as a baseline to network monitoring, and as a possible approach to automatically handle and recover from erratic behavior, providing systems with adaptive web services and self-organizing capabilities.
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