Industry Keynote: Digital Evolution in China – A Tech Perspective

Building more open-ended evolutionary systems can simultaneously advance our understanding of biology, artificial life, and evolutionary computation. In order to do so, however, we need a way to determine when we are moving closer to this goal. We propose a set of metrics that allow us to measure a system's ability to produce commonly-agreed-upon hallmarks of open-ended evolution: change potential, novelty potential, complexity potential, and ecological potential. Our goal is to make these metrics easy to incorporate into a system, and comparable across systems so that we can make coherent progress as a field. To this end, we provide detailed algorithms (including C++ implementations) for these metrics that should be easy to incorporate into existing artificial life systems. Furthermore, we expect this toolbox to continue to grow as researchers implement these metrics in new languages and as the community reaches consensus about additional hallmarks of open-ended evolution. For example, we would welcome a measurement of a system's potential to produce major transitions in individuality. To confirm that our metrics accurately measure the hallmarks we are interested in, we test them on two very different experimental systems: NK Landscapes and the Avida Digital Evolution Platform. We find that our observed results are consistent with our prior knowledge about these systems, suggesting that our proposed metrics are effective and should generalize to other systems.

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THE INFLUENCES OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION ON THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE EU COUNTRIES

Marketing and Management of Innovations ◽

10.21272/mmi.2019.3-18 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cristina Gabriela Cosmulese ◽

Veronica Grosu ◽

Elena Hlaciuc ◽

Artur Zhavoronok

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Member State ◽

Educational System ◽

Public Utility ◽

The European Union ◽

Digital Evolution ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Adult Participation ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Eu

In the context of the information skills development programs that are being developed by the EU, there is an increasing interest in the acquisition and use of digital competences as an impact factor on the educational system at all its was levels. The present study aims to analyze the evolution of digital specializations generated by the digital evolution, in parallel with the development of the educational system, through a statistical analysis of the main indicators that have been reported at EU level on early education abandonment, employment rate of graduates, employment of IT specialists by gender, adult participation in gender-based learning, and other impact indicators that demonstrate the capacity of the population in the digital domain through the use of ICT solutions. The object of research were the statistical indicators reported for 2017 by Eurostat at the level of the European Union, for each member state of the union, obtaining a total of 29 statistical observations. The data were modelled through the GRETL statistical program, obtaining a model based on the smallest squares method in 2 phases. This paper shows that there is a need to assimilate the European approaches in the field of digital evolution, a necessity which varies according to the economic development of each member state, Romania being ranked in the chapter of assimilation of the objectives of the open education agenda in the second part of the European ranking, including based on the low absorption rates provided for Union programs in this area. The study theoretically proves and empirically confirms that the function obtained through modelling can be assimilated to the service demand function and can be integrated into the offer function harmonized with the information factor. This research study represents a contribution to the field of management of public utility companies and can be useful for educational institutions, students, the labour market and the general public, providing a starting point for further indepth research in this area. Keywords: educational system, digital revolution, economic development, EU Agenda.

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The Development and Transformation of the Bank Card Market as an Imperative for Digitalization: the Case of Central and Eastern European Countries

Comparative Economic Research ◽

10.18778/1508-2008.24.30 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 45-67

Author(s):

Olena Sobolieva-Tereshchenko ◽

Olesya Moyseyenko ◽

Valeriia Zharnikova

Keyword(s):

Banking Sector ◽

Digital Evolution ◽

Growth Trend ◽

Market Index ◽

Ranking Systems ◽

Payment Cards ◽

International Ranking ◽

Bank Card ◽

Eastern European Countries ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this study is to determine the development trends of the major determinants of the bank card market in eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the period from 2010 to 2019. Continuing a study carried out in 2018, further comparative analysis of the “Bank Cards Market Index” proposed earlier and based on a system of interrelated indicators of bank payment cards, ATMs and POS‑terminals, was carried out. We provide an overview of the rankings of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia using international ranking systems such as “The Legatum Prosperity Index,” “Doing Business,” “The Index of Economic Freedom,” and the “Вank Cards Market Index.” Further studies of three international ranking systems, as well as the “Bank Cards Market Index,” again confirmed the similarity of the development models of the bank card market in Poland and Ukraine. To study the impact of the digitalization of economics and Covid–19 on the bank card market, a deeper analysis of two cases (Poland and Ukraine, as two similar bank card markets) was carried out using the “Digital Evolution Index.” In the course of the research, it was concluded that the “Вank Cards Market Index” can be successfully used for further research of the banking sector of different countries. Also, the growth trend of cashless payments in the bank card market and the possible transformation of the market under the influence of Covid–19, and the global digitalization of economics were noticed. Taking into account the above trend, further studies of the system of interrelated indicators of bank payment cards, ATMs, and POS terminals should be carried out using the “Digital Evolution Index” or other international indexes that characterize the level of digitalization of the economy in the researched countries.

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PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FROM EMERGING THREATS

STRATEGIES XXI - Command and Staff College ◽

10.53477/2668-2028-21-49 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 377-384

Author(s):

Răzvan ZMĂDU

Keyword(s):

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Digital Evolution ◽

Improvised Explosive Devices ◽

Continuous Transformation ◽

Public And Private ◽

Or Groups ◽

Improvised Explosive ◽

Explosive Devices ◽

The Military

Abstract: Today's society is in a continuous transformation towards a digitalized society. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated worldwide the transition from the physical to the online environment of services provided by both public and private institutions. With a digitized society in our defense types of risks, threats and risks to critical infrastructures that support digital evolution. Thus, opponents turn their attention to new forms of asymmetric attacks to generate states of terror against states or individuals or groups of people. Thus, among the newest and most developed threats are those that use cyberterrorism, network-based warfare or attacks using technologies imported from the military such as drones carrying improvised explosive devices. Countermeasures and resilient systems must be prepared against them.

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