Thriving Systems Theory And Metaphor Driven Modeling
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Thriving Systems Theory And Metaphor Driven Modeling
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Author : Leslie J. Waguespack
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Thriving Systems Theory And Metaphor Driven Modeling written by Leslie J. Waguespack 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 2010-10-01 with Computers categories.
How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander’s fifty-year quest to explain great physical architecture and gave birth to pattern-languages for building that underpin much of modern systems engineering. How is it that so many individual stakeholders consistently recognize the same quality, the same beauty in a system? This question led George Lakoff to research the role of conceptual metaphor in human understanding. What is essential to stakeholders’ satisfaction with systems? Fred Brooks, in his publications, addressed this question. This monograph fuses these diverse streams of thought in proposing Thriving Systems Theory by translating Alexander’s properties of physical design quality into the abstract domain of information systems and modeling. Metaphor-Driven Modeling incorporates the theory while examining its impact throughout the system life cycle: modeling, design and deployment. The result is holistic and innovative, a perspective on system quality invaluable to students, practitioners and researchers of software and systems engineering.
Designing Thriving Systems
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Author : Leslie J. Waguespack
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-10
Designing Thriving Systems written by Leslie J. Waguespack and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-10 with Computers categories.
This monograph illuminates a design mindset for systems, artefacts, that not only survive, but thrive. Of itself an artefact is devoid of design quality – until encountered in a specific social context by human attendants. Design quality is the affect of an intertwining of (a) an artefact’s structural and behavior properties, (b) an attendant humanly conception of quality, an appreciative system, and (c) the enfolding social context of their encounter. To pursue quality in design is to interweave these three strands bound as a durable cord that evokes a visceral satisfaction – or “the delight of a ringing musical chord.” The human consciousness of design quality is fundamentally metaphoric and dynamic – a perception of reality mediated by a personal value disposition. In the continuum of experience, living moment after moment, both the attendant’s metaphorical appreciation and their sense of quality evolve. And thus, design quality issues from perpetual, concentric cycles of design-construct-experience-learn-assess-calibrate over the life span of relationship with an artefact. Design-as-a-verb’s purpose is to service the life in that relationship, sustain its survival, and hopefully, raise that life to a state of thriving. Design quality manifests throughout the cycles of design-as-a-verb, rather than as a product of it. Such is the mindset in which the designer must indwell and that design education must nurture. While all artefacts are systems, the domain of artefact design of which I am most experienced is computing systems. Therefore, I will rest upon that domain to explore a theory and practice of design-as-a-verb – designing thriving systems.
Mastering The Art Of Command
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Author : Trent Hone
language : en
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Mastering The Art Of Command written by Trent Hone and has been published by Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with History categories.
Honorable Mention for the John Lyman Book Award in the category of “U.S. Naval History.” Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz‘s leadership during World War II. It describes how he used his talents to guide the Pacific Fleet following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, win crucial victories against the forces of Imperial Japan, and then seize the initiative in the Pacific. Once Nimitz‘s forces held the initiative, they maintained it through an offensive campaign of unparalleled speed that overcame Japanese defenses and created the conditions for victory. As a command and operational history, Mastering the Art of Command explores how Nimitz used his leadership skills, command talents, and strategic acumen to achieve these decisive results. Hone recounts how Nimitz, as both Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), revised and adapted his organizational structure to capitalize on lessons and newly emerging information. Hone argues that Nimitz—because he served simultaneously as CINCPAC and CINCPOA—was able to couple tactical successes to strategic outcomes and more effectively plan and execute operations that brought victory at Midway, Guadalcanal, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. As a study of leadership, Mastering the Art of Command uses modern management theories, and builds upon the approach in his award-winning Learning War. Trent Hone explores the challenge of leadership in complex adaptive systems through Nimitz‘s behavior and causes us to reassess the inevitability of Allied victory and the reasons for its ultimate accomplishment. A new narrative history of the Pacific war, this book demonstrates effective patterns for complexity-informed leadership by highlighting how Nimitz maintained coherence within his organization, established the conditions for his subordinates to succeed, and fostered collaborative sensemaking to identify and pursue options more rapidly. Nimitz‘s “strategic artistry” is a pattern worthy of study and emulation, for today‘s military officers, civilian leaders, and managers in large organizations.
Social Strategies Building The City
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Author : Marielly Casanova
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2019
Social Strategies Building The City written by Marielly Casanova and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Architecture categories.
Social housing is a complex system integrated by social, economic, political and city making processes. Social practices in the called social production of the habitat provide clues to understand an alternative way to approach housing solutions in which several dimensions coexist. Through the rationalization of social (self-management), economic (social economy) and urban principles, it was possible the construction of typologies to document and evaluate 3 case studies in Latin America. This book provides a foundation for future research and conception of social housing policies and programs.
Beyond The Informal
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Author : Ninik Suhartini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-01-01
Beyond The Informal written by Ninik Suhartini and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia’s urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization. The book challenges the current formal approaches and practices to modern planning in Indonesia where many kampungs are classed as illegal and excluded from city plans. Beyond informality unpacks via three case studies the self-generated planning and development arrangements and mechanisms which occur parallel to processes of formal exclusion, adaptation, negotiation and modification. Kampungs are posited as inseparable urban entities contributing to the complex assemblage of the city and the dynamics of contemporary urban planning and design. In the context of planning and design practice, this book provides a better understanding on how one needs to consider human-scale urbanism to achieve more effective and efficient planning plans and policies in the self-organized city. Even though self-organization by residents comes with its challenges as outlined in the book, formal planning in both Indonesia and other developing countries has much to learn from understanding self-organized settlements (kampung) and informal settlements ‘as they are’.
Didaktische Entwurfsmuster
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Author : Reinhard Bauer
language : de
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Release Date : 2015
Didaktische Entwurfsmuster written by Reinhard Bauer and has been published by Waxmann Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Education categories.
Unterricht und seine Gestaltung stehen in einem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Wie kann diese Kluft zwischen Wissen und Handeln überbrückt werden? Als eine Möglichkeit werden in jüngster Zeit didaktische Entwurfsmuster diskutiert. Auf systematische Weise dokumentieren sie bewährte Lösungen für wiederkehrende Probleme bei der Gestaltung didaktischer Szenarien und machen so das implizite Wissen erfahrener Lehrender für Novizinnen und Novizen nutzbar. Von wem, wie und warum wurde der Muster-Ansatz aus der Architektur auf die Didaktik übertragen? Welche Problematik verbirgt sich in diesem gedanklichen Brückenschlag? Wie sehen didaktische Entwurfsmuster aus und worin bestehen ihre Stärken und Schwächen? Was sind die notwendigen Voraussetzungen dafür, dass didaktische Entwurfsmuster nutzbringend für die Unterrichtsgestaltung eingesetzt werden können? Diesen Fragen nähert sich Reinhard Bauer aus einer diskursanalytischen Perspektive mit dem Ziel, den von Christopher Alexander für die Architektur entwickelten Muster-Ansatz für die Didaktik zu öffnen und nutzbar zu machen. Reinhard Bauer promovierte 2014 an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Er lehrt und forscht am Institut für übergreifende Bildungsschwerpunkte (IBS) der Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien, wo er sich im Zentrum für Lerntechnologie und Innovation (ZLI) mit den Einsatzmöglichkeiten von digitalen Technologien, Medien und Werkzeugen für eine zeitgemäße und innovative (Hochschul-)Didaktik beschäftigt.
Integration Of Natural Language And Vision Processing
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Author : Paul Mc Kevitt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1996-06-30
Integration Of Natural Language And Vision Processing written by Paul Mc Kevitt 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 1996-06-30 with Computers categories.
Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from philosophical and psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, UK, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, U.S.A.) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The U.S.A., China and the EU are well reflected, showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
Journal Of Applied Linguistics Selected Papers
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Author : Hussain Al-Fattah Ahmad
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12-10
Journal Of Applied Linguistics Selected Papers written by Hussain Al-Fattah Ahmad and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-10 with Education categories.
Selected papers from the Journal of Applied Linguistics (Dubai) edited by Hussain Al-Fattah Ahmad
Handbook Of Human Computer Interaction
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Author : M.G. Helander
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 1997-08-18
Handbook Of Human Computer Interaction written by M.G. Helander and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-18 with Computers categories.
This completely revised edition, of the Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, of which 80% of the content is new, reflects the developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 1988. The handbook is concerned with principles for design of the Human-Computer Interface, and has both academic and practical purposes. It is intended to summarize the research and provide recommendations for how the information can be used by designers of computer systems. The volume may also be used as a reference for teaching and research. Professionals who are involved in design of HCI will find this volume indispensable, including: computer scientists, cognitive scientists, experimental psychologists, human factors professionals, interface designers, systems engineers, managers and executives working with systems development. Much of the information in the handbook may also be generalized to apply to areas outside the traditional field of HCI.
Consultancy And Advising In Forensic Practice
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Author : Carol A. Ireland
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-02-18
Consultancy And Advising In Forensic Practice written by Carol A. Ireland and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-18 with Psychology categories.
The first publication to apply the modern theory and techniques in the consultancy process, presenting a clear, practical approach targeted specifically at forensic issues and contexts. The first publication to apply consultancy literature to a forensic setting Provides a combination of the theoretical and practical underpinnings needed in consultancy work, offering a development of knowledge with practical application Brings together papers from researchers, academics, practitioners and consultants within forensic psychology whilst drawing upon expertise in business consultancy and administration Chapters combine psychological, ethical, managerial and evaluative aspects into themed summaries Offers directions for further study and practice development