scholarly journals Productivity Equation and the m Distributions of Information Processing in Workflows

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Roberto Telles
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Probabilistic Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Definition Of

This research proposes and investigates an equation for productivity in hybrid workflows regarding its robustness towards the definition of workflows as a hybrid probabilistic systems. The proposed equation and its derivations were formulated through a theoretical framework about information theory, probabilities and complex adaptive systems. By defining a productivity equation for organism-machine-environment interactions, discrete and continuous variables that constitute the systems can be controlled by a mathematical framework where prediction and monitoring aspects of optimization are possible without the limitation of strict empirical methods.

scholarly journals Sensing the City: Legibility in the Context of Mediated Spatial Terrains

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Wohl
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems Theory ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Smartphones, with their “pervasive presence” in contact with our bodies, have come to act as sensory prosthetics that mediate our experience of the city. They activate new possibilities of navigating the urban, such that we can find exactly what we want, rather than what has been placed before us. This article argues that smartphone technologies produce a more fluid engagement with urban space: where space is not so much “given” as “enacted.” In this context, notions of “legibility” take on new algorithmic and virtual forms. Thus, according to Hamilton and colleagues, where “the legible city waited to be read, the transparent city of data waits to be accessed.” Here, stable features dissolve as urban space becomes increasingly fluid and contingent, no longer limited by static patterns of inhabitation. Instead, how we move and where we move shift in accordance with the kinds of urban resources being activated at any given location, at any given moment, and in conjunction with the shifting vicissitudes of the crowd. In this context, the virtual (in its technological definition of cyber-enabled or -enacted space) mediates and activates the virtual (in its philosophical definition pertaining to the capacities of an entity that may or may not be manifested depending on context). The article considers the implications of this novel spatial mediation using an ontological perspective informed by complex adaptive systems theory, which considers forms and objects not as absolutes but rather as contingent entities activated through interactions.

Relatonics as a Key Concept for Networked Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 1367-1374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Backström ◽  
Marianne Döös
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Everyday Learning ◽  
Practical Implications

Learning in organizations, and the competence the organization thereby obtains for performing its core tasks, has come into ever sharper focus when attempts have been made to explain the degree of competitiveness of companies. Much learning takes place when people interact, converse, or co-act. In their research, the current authors have found themselves in need of a new concept, relatonic, that can be applied to the study of interaction and relations at organizational level. To focus interactions and relations is important for all organizations, and extra important for networked and virtual organizations, where persons not as often meet naturally just by working close to each other. The authors have defined and used the concept on the basis of their respective theoretical platforms. These concern recent thinking within the theories of workplace learning (WPL) and organization pedagogics (Döös, 2004, 2007) and theories of complex adaptive systems (CAS) (Backström, 2004). The possibility of a joint definition of the concept of relatonics has been explored (Backström & Döös, 2005), thereby initiating integration of parts of the theories of WPL and CAS. Next, in the Background, follows the joint definition of relatonics and the concept relatonic is expounded from a CAS perspective. Thereafter, follows a description of practical implications of relatonics. The aim is to describe the importance of relatonics for networked and virtual organizations. The main underlying problem concerns which opportunities for everyday learning and competence development are offered in working life, both at an individual and organizational level, but also the problem of stabilizing and integrating organizations composed of relatively autonomous parts.

XXI secolo: l’universo fisico-cibernetico e le grandi sfide emergenti

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Mauro Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
The One

In this chapter we outline the cyber-physical world we entered following the pervasive diffusion of information processing devices that are able to able to interact through exchanging information (cyber-physical systems). In this way ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous connectivity are changing how people think, act and produce. Indeed processes and products are becoming smart and connected on a potentially global level. The possibility of realizing a digital of everything representation from the subatomic level and nanoscale to the astronomical level implies that the physical world is surrounded and pervaded by a digital sphere that interacts with and influences it. Are we in a world like the one hypothesized by Borges' famous paradoxes of the 1: 1 map? The reality Is very different from the imagery Borges’s map: hyperstructures self-organize and emerge, global players act and influence the dynamics of complex adaptive systems.

scholarly journals FISHERMEN ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS: AN INTERPRETATIVE MODEL FOR SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Loto ◽  
Ronaldo Lobão ◽  
Edson Pereira Silva ◽  
Cassiano Monteiro-Neto
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Interpretative Model

Abstract The fishermen ecological knowledge (FEK) encompasses information on biology of species and climatic and oceanographic changes, all related with schools of fish and its capture. It incorporates a complex set of codes and signs, which are constantly updated and transmitted orally thorough generations. In this sense, FEK presents characteristics such as diversity and ability to learn from experience, which are in conformity with the definition of a complex adaptive system (CAS). Based on this assumption, this work proposes to structure and interpret FEK as a CAS. It is supported that such approach can promote the exchange of information among areas, which are other way considered incommensurable (anthropology, oceanography, marine biology, meteorology etc.), and also among formal sciences and the FEK. However, CAS is a structure designed with heuristic goals associated with mathematical modeling what is beyond the aims of this work, which uses CAS only as a structuring metaphor.

Performing Algorithms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Algorithmic Music ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Acoustic Domain

The chapter considers algorithmic music as the ‘sonification’ of algorithms, a term coined by Carla Scaletti to describe the mapping of numerically represented relations in some domain to relations in an acoustic domain. The chapter looks at the range of ways this concept has been used by the author in composing her works. The chapter identifies isomorphic relationships between algorithms and collaboration, music, and performance, and extends the boundary of the computer to include systems of people and sound. The definition of music and performance is extended to include process, rules, machines, and execution. Examples discussed include performing a bubble sort, pandemic performances (using principles of complex adaptive systems), Mandelbrot music, and M.T.Brain/Telebrain, which send complex algorithmic instructions to multiple performers in real time.

scholarly journals Nanoscale Neuromorphic Networks and Criticality: A Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S Dunham ◽  
Sam Lilak ◽  
Joel Hochstetter ◽  
Alon Loeffler ◽  
Ruomin Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Variable Density ◽  
Critical Dynamics ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
Attractor Dynamics ◽  
Metal Insulator Metal ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Nanowire Networks

Abstract Numerous studies suggest critical dynamics may play a role in information processing and task performance in biological systems. However, studying critical dynamics in these systems can be challenging due to many confounding biological variables that limit access to the physical processes underpinning critical dynamics. Here we offer a perspective on the use of abiotic, neuromorphic nanowire networks as a means to investigate critical dynamics in complex adaptive systems. Neuromorphic nanowire networks are composed of metallic nanowires and possess metal-insulator-metal junctions. These networks self-assemble into a highly interconnected, variable-density structure and exhibit nonlinear electrical switching properties and information processing capabilities. We highlight key dynamical characteristics observed in neuromorphic nanowire networks, including persistent fluctuations in conductivity with power law distributions, hysteresis, chaotic attractor dynamics, and avalanche criticality. We posit that neuromorphic nanowire networks can function effectively as tunable abiotic physical systems for studying critical dynamics and leveraging criticality for computation.

scholarly journals Cooperating community connections: A changing political reality

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Graham
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Community Informatics has declared that the global is a federation of locals.  James Quilligan has written an essay to the effect that applying such a definition of global requires a world institution of democratic governance.  Some members of the community of community informatics researchers have come to a similar conclusion.  This essay outlines an alternative interpretation based on complex adaptive systems theory, and with consequent results for a different definition of the individual, the community and their interdependence.  It asks the question – where does the predominance of opinion in community informatics about the changing nature of governance and community reside?

Emerging interdisciplinary fields in the coming intelligence/convergence era

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Noor
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Systems Of Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractDramatic advances are in the horizon resulting from rapid pace of development of several technologies, including, computing, communication, mobile, robotic, and interactive technologies. These advances, along with the trend towards convergence of traditional engineering disciplines with physical, life and other science disciplines will result in the development of new interdisciplinary fields, as well as in new paradigms for engineering practice in the coming intelligence/convergence era (post-information age). The interdisciplinary fields include Cyber Engineering, Living Systems Engineering, Biomechatronics/Robotics Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Emergent/Complexity Engineering, and Multiscale Systems engineering.The paper identifies some of the characteristics of the intelligence/convergence era, gives broad definition of convergence, describes some of the emerging interdisciplinary fields, and lists some of the academic and other organizations working in these disciplines. The need is described for establishing a Hierarchical Cyber-Physical Ecosystem for facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations, and accelerating development of skilled workforce in the new fields. The major components of the ecosystem are listed.The new interdisciplinary fields will yield critical advances in engineering practice, and help in addressing future challenges in broad array of sectors, from manufacturing to energy, transportation, climate, and healthcare. They will also enable building large future complex adaptive systems-of-systems, such as intelligent multimodal transportation systems, optimized multi-energy systems, intelligent disaster prevention systems, and smart cities.

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