Guided Self Organization Inception
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Guided Self Organization Inception
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Author : Mikhail Prokopenko
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-12-19
Guided Self Organization Inception written by Mikhail Prokopenko and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Is it possible to guide the process of self-organisation towards specific patterns and outcomes? Wouldn’t this be self-contradictory? After all, a self-organising process assumes a transition into a more organised form, or towards a more structured functionality, in the absence of centralised control. Then how can we place the guiding elements so that they do not override rich choices potentially discoverable by an uncontrolled process? This book presents different approaches to resolving this paradox. In doing so, the presented studies address a broad range of phenomena, ranging from autopoietic systems to morphological computation, and from small-world networks to information cascades in swarms. A large variety of methods is employed, from spontaneous symmetry breaking to information dynamics to evolutionary algorithms, creating a rich spectrum reflecting this emerging field. Demonstrating several foundational theories and frameworks, as well as innovative practical implementations, Guided Self-Organisation: Inception, will be an invaluable tool for advanced students and researchers in a multiplicity of fields across computer science, physics and biology, including information theory, robotics, dynamical systems, graph theory, artificial life, multi-agent systems, theory of computation and machine learning.
Self Organization In The Nervous System
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Author : Yan M. Yufik
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Self Organization In The Nervous System written by Yan M. Yufik and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with categories.
This special issue reviews state-of-the-art approaches to the biophysical roots of cognition. These approaches appeal to the notion that cognitive capacities serve to optimize responses to changing external conditions. Crucially, this optimisation rests on the ability to predict changes in the environment, thus allowing organisms to respond pre-emptively to changes before their onset. The biophysical mechanisms that underwrite these cognitive capacities remain largely unknown; although a number of hypotheses has been advanced in systems neuroscience, biophysics and other disciplines. These hypotheses converge on the intersection of thermodynamic and information-theoretic formulations of self-organization in the brain. The latter perspective emerged when Shannon’s theory of message transmission in communication systems was used to characterise message passing between neurons. In its subsequent incarnations, the information theory approach has been integrated into computational neuroscience and the Bayesian brain framework. The thermodynamic formulation rests on a view of the brain as an aggregation of stochastic microprocessors (neurons), with subsequent appeal to the constructs of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. In particular, the use of ensemble dynamics to elucidate the relationship between micro-scale parameters and those of the macro-scale aggregation (the brain). In general, the thermodynamic approach treats the brain as a dissipative system and seeks to represent the development and functioning of cognitive mechanisms as collective capacities that emerge in the course of self-organization. Its explicanda include energy efficiency; enabling progressively more complex cognitive operations such as long-term prediction and anticipatory planning. A cardinal example of the Bayesian brain approach is the free energy principle that explains self-organizing dynamics in the brain in terms of its predictive capabilities – and selective sampling of sensory inputs that optimise variational free energy as a proxy for Bayesian model evidence. An example of thermodynamically grounded proposals, in this issue, associates self-organization with phase transitions in neuronal state-spaces; resulting in the formation of bounded neuronal assemblies (neuronal packets). This special issue seeks a discourse between thermodynamic and informational formulations of the self-organising and self-evidencing brain. For example, could minimization of thermodynamic free energy during the formation of neuronal packets underlie minimization of variational free energy?
The Principles Of Agile Management
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Author : Ulla Sebestyén
language : en
Publisher: Parmatur HB
Release Date : 2020-06-01
The Principles Of Agile Management written by Ulla Sebestyén and has been published by Parmatur HB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
In this book, we go through the basic principles that every manager needs to understand in order to practice agile management. Changes are often small and seamless, but sometimes big and dramatic. Agility is to create, exploit and endure changes in circumstances. An agile business is able to successfully create effects in the market and take advantage of the opportunities that arise. In order to survive in the long term, both resilience and adaptability are needed. Being able to establish this balance is what agile management is all about. Major changes in the market are impossible to predict, but we know for sure that they will occur. We just don’t know when and what will change. Recessions and financial crashes return in cycles. While other dramatic world events are much more difficult to prepare for and realize the consequences of. So how can a company adopt the resilience it needs to not only survive, but also thrive in the tumultuous periods? In this book we will show how the principles of agile management can help companies keep pace with changes in the world around them. We start with basic knowledge about adaptation to explain how organizations work and then explores the principles behind agile management backed up with examples and useful methods and practices. The book also points out characteristics of an agile business that can be used for self-assessment. We believe in people’s initiative and their ability to act. With knowledge, curiosity and feedback, the journey towards the agile business can start.
Representation And Reality In Humans Other Living Organisms And Intelligent Machines
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Author : Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-29
Representation And Reality In Humans Other Living Organisms And Intelligent Machines written by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with Computers categories.
This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation and reality in humans, other living beings, and intelligent machines. Structured into parts on the cognitive, computational, natural sciences, philosophical, logical, and machine perspectives, a theme of the field and the book is building and presenting networks, and the editors hope that the contributed chapters will spur understanding and collaboration between researchers in domains such as computer science, philosophy, logic, systems theory, engineering, psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and synthetic biology.
Swarm Robotics
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Author : Giandomenico Spezzano
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2019-05-13
Swarm Robotics written by Giandomenico Spezzano and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-13 with Computers categories.
Collectively working robot teams can solve a problem more efficiently than a single robot, while also providing robustness and flexibility to the group. Swarm robotics model is a key component of a cooperative algorithm that controls the behaviors and interactions of all individuals. The robots in the swarm should have some basic functions, such as sensing, communicating, and monitoring, and satisfy the following properties: Autonomy—Individuals that create the swarm robotic system are autonomous robots. They are independent and can interact with each other and the environment.Large number—They are in large number, enabling cooperation.Scalability and robustness—A new unit can be easily added to the system, so the system can be easily scaled. A greater number of units improves the performance of the system. The system is quite robust to the loss of some units, as some units still remain to perform, although the system will not perform to its maximum capabilities.Decentralized coordination—The robots communicate with each other and with their environment to make final decisions.Flexibility—The swarm robotic system has the ability to generate modularized solutions to different tasks.
Directed Information Measures In Neuroscience
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Author : Michael Wibral
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Directed Information Measures In Neuroscience written by Michael Wibral and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top of the brain's slowly-changing anatomical connectivity. Measuring such transfer is crucial to understanding how flexible information routing and processing give rise to higher cognitive function. Directed Information Measures in Neuroscience reviews recent developments of concepts and tools for measuring information transfer, their application to neurophysiological recordings and analysis of interactions. Written by the most active researchers in the field the book discusses the state of the art, future prospects and challenges on the way to an efficient assessment of neuronal information transfer. Highlights include the theoretical quantification and practical estimation of information transfer, description of transfer locally in space and time, multivariate directed measures, information decomposition among a set of stimulus/responses variables and the relation between interventional and observational causality. Applications to neural data sets and pointers to open source software highlight the usefulness of these measures in experimental neuroscience. With state-of-the-art mathematical developments, computational techniques and applications to real data sets, this book will be of benefit to all graduate students and researchers interested in detecting and understanding the information transfer between components of complex systems.
Artificial Life And Evolutionary Computation
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Author : Marcello Pelillo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-02
Artificial Life And Evolutionary Computation written by Marcello Pelillo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-02 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017.The 23 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover the following topics: physical-chemical phenomena; biological systems; economy and society; complexity; optimization.
Handbook On Complexity And Public Policy
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Author : Robert Geyer
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2015-05-29
Handbook On Complexity And Public Policy written by Robert Geyer and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-29 with Political Science categories.
'Over recent years Complexity Science has revealed to us new limits to our possible knowledge and control in social, cultural and economic systems. Instead of supposing that past statistics and patterns will give us predictable outcomes for possible actions, we now know the world is, and will always be, creative and surprising. Continuous structural evolution within such systems may change the mechanisms, descriptors, problems and opportunities, often negating policy aims. We therefore need to redevelop our thinking about interventions, policies and policy making, moving perhaps to a humbler, more 'learning' approach. In this Handbook, leading thinkers in multiple domains set out these new ideas and allow us to understand how these new ideas are changing policymaking and policies in this new era.' - Peter M Allen, Cranfield University, UK
From Collective Beings To Quasi Systems
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Author : Gianfranco Minati
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-29
From Collective Beings To Quasi Systems written by Gianfranco Minati and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Business & Economics categories.
This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change from Collective Beings to Quasi-systems. With the current advancements, problems and approaches occurring in contemporary science, systemics are moving beyond the traditional frameworks used in the past. From Collective Beings to Coherent Quasi-Systems outlines a conceptual morphology and landscape for a new theoretical perspective for systemics introducing the concept of Quasi-systems. Advances in domains such as theoretical physics, philosophy of science, cell biology, neuroscience, experimental economics, network science and many others offer new concepts and technical tools to support the creation of a fully transdisciplinary General Theory of Change. This circumstance requires a deep reformulation of systemics, without forgetting the achievements of established conventions. The book is divided into two parts. Part I, examines classic systemic issues from new theoretical perspectives and approaches. A new general unified framework is introduced to help deal with topics such as dynamic structural coherence and Quasi-systems. This new theoretical framework is compared and contrasted with the traditional approaches. Part II focuses on the process of translation into social culture of the theoretical principles, models and approaches introduced in Part I. This translation is urgent in post-industrial societies where emergent processes and problems are still dealt with by using the classical or non-systemic knowledge of the industrial phase.
Handbook Of Research On International Business And Models For Global Purpose Driven Companies
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Author : Perez-Uribe, Rafael Ignacio
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2020-11-20
Handbook Of Research On International Business And Models For Global Purpose Driven Companies written by Perez-Uribe, Rafael Ignacio and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-20 with Business & Economics categories.
International businesses struggle to be competitive and influential at the global market level. With the new ideas in the management and leadership disciplines, hard skills are losing or are believed to be losing their strategic relevance while soft skills are praised and highly sought after. The Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies, a pivotal reference source, provides vital research on international business management strategies and applications within internal organizations that allow companies to strategically position themselves for increased success in the global economy. While highlighting topics such as organizational culture, internal communication, and generational workforce, this publication explores leadership disciplines as well as the methods of handling multicultural organizations. This book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, business professionals, human resource officials, researchers, academicians, and students.