scholarly journals Special issue: Representing social science in national-security-related modeling and simulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K Davis ◽  
Angela O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
National Security ◽  
Special Issue

Representing qualitative social science in computational models to aid reasoning under uncertainty: National security examples

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K Davis ◽  
Angela O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Computational Modeling ◽  
National Security ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Reasoning Under Uncertainty ◽  
Social Science Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Models

Representing causal social science knowledge in models is difficult: much of the best knowledge is qualitative and ambiguously conditional, unlike the knowledge in “physics models.” This paper describes a stream of RAND research that began with qualitative models providing a structured depiction of casual factors creating effects. That has subsequently been extended to an unusual kind of uncertainty sensitive computational modeling that enables exploratory reasoning and analysis. We illustrate the approach with applications to counterterrorism, detection of terrorists, and nuclear crises. We believe that the approach will complement other approaches that can reflect social science phenomena [see other papers in this special issue of JDMS] and that the approach has broad potential within and beyond the national security domain. We also believe that it has the potential to inform empirical work—encouraging a transition from the step-by-step empirical testing of simple discrete hypotheses to the testing and refinement of more comprehensive causal models.

Introduction: The Anthropocene as Context and Concept for the Study of Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
RYAN EVELY GILDERSLEEVE ◽  
KATIE KLEINHESSELINK
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Geologic Condition

The Anthropocene has emerged in philosophy and social science as a geologic condition with radical consequence for humankind, and thus, for the social institutions that support it, such as higher education. This essay introduces the special issue by outlining some of the possibilities made available for social/philosophical research about higher education when the Anthropocene is taken seriously as an analytic tool. We provide a patchwork of discussions that attempt to sketch out different ways to consider the Anthropocene as both context and concept for the study of higher education. We conclude the essay with brief introductory remarks about the articles collected for this special issue dedicated to “The Anthropocene and Higher Education.”

scholarly journals Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5975
Author(s):  
Ana María Camacho ◽  
Eva María Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Manufacturing Automation ◽  
Engineering Society ◽  
Manufacturing Engineering ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020) has been launched as a joint issue of the journals “Materials” and “Applied Sciences”. The 14 contributions published in this Special Issue of Applied Sciences present cutting-edge advances in the field of Manufacturing Engineering focusing on advances and innovations in manufacturing processes; additive manufacturing and 3D printing; manufacturing of new materials; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies; robotics, mechatronics and manufacturing automation; Industry 4.0; design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering; manufacturing engineering and society; and production planning. Among them, the topic “Manufacturing engineering and society” collected the highest number of contributions (representing 22%), followed by the topics “Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies”, “Industry 4.0”, and “Design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering” (each at 14%). The rest of the topics represent the remaining 35% of the contributions.

scholarly journals A Dimensão Esquecida do Trabalho: Entrevista com Jaime Santos Júnior

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Stefano Rosa Gómez ◽  
Felipe Rodrigues ◽  
Manoel Cláudio da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Anthropology Of Work

Resumo: Como parte do dossiê “Antropologias do Trabalho: Desafios Latino-Americanos”, apresentamos a entrevista realizada com o professor da UFPR, Jaime dos Santos Junior que, refletindo sobre sua trajetória biográfica e acadêmica, ressalta a importância de uma Ciência Social atenta às “zonas cinzentas” dos mundos do trabalho, convidando a um olhar para os interstícios e os não-ditos. Suas pesquisas sobre trabalhadores do corte de cana em Sergipe, sobre operários migrantes no ABC paulista ou, ainda, memórias operárias relacionados à ciclos de greves em Pernambuco e São Paulo – realizadas sempre em interlocução com uma rede de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores – destacam a importância do estudo do cotidiano. A interpretação do cotidiano, no trajeto intelectual de Jaime, sugere uma atenção sociológica complexa para as resistências, as configurações familiares, os movimentos sociais, relações patronais, entre outros fenômenos. A narrativa do entrevistado enfatiza um esforço de propor uma sociologia do trabalho “que não quer ser apenas uma sociologia da denúncia.”Palavras-chave: Antropologia do Trabalho; Trajetória Intelectual; Setor Sucroalcooleiro; Memória Operária  THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION OF WORK:INTERVIEW WITH JAIME SANTOS JÚNIORAbstract: As part of the special issue “Anthropologies of Work: Latin-American challenges” we present the interview with professor Jaime Santos Junior of Federal University of Paraná. He speaks about his intellectual and biographical trajectory highlighting the importance of a social science who looks to the “grey areas” of the worlds of work: the unspoken and the interstitial. His researches about cane workers in Sergipe, migrant workers in “ABC Paulista”, or even worker’s memories of strikes cycles in Pernambuco and São Paulo evidence the importance of study the quotidian. The interpretations of the ordinary life in the intellectual path of professor Jaime suggest a complex sociological attention to resistances, family settings, social movements, employer relations and other phenomena. The interviewee’s narrative emphasizes and effort of propose a sociology of work that “don’t want to be just a sociology of denunciation”.Keywords: Anthropology of Work. Intellectual Trajectory. Sugar and Alcohol Sector. Memory of Work

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