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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"social systems"”.
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Higher-Order Interactions in Social Systems
The de facto representation of a social network is a graph— individuals are represented as nodes, and relationships between pairs of individuals are represented as edges. This results in a powerful abstraction by which social relationships can be systematically studied to understand emergent …
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Some Applications of Cybernetics to Social Systems
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Adaptability of Accounting to Different Social Systems
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Understanding performance measurement from a social systems perspective
Performance measurement (PM) systems fail to predict organisational outcomes reliably because organisations face futures so inherently unknowable that it is impossible to comprehend the full range of potential outcomes open to them. Organisations are complex, adaptive, social systems whose …
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Mathematical models and simulations of complex social systems
… we present two different models of Complex Social Systems. The first model represents a vector-borne disease that takes place in a heterogeneous environment composed of areas of different types. Two populations take part in the epidemic process: humans and vectors. The population of humans …
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Machine perception and learning of complex social systems
The study of complex social systems has traditionally been an arduous process, involving extensive surveys, interviews, ethnographic studies, or analysis of online behavior. Today, however, it is possible to use the unprecedented amount of information generated by pervasive mobile phones to provide …
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Applications of Spatial Models to Ecology and Social Systems
<p>Interacting particle systems have been applied to model the spread of infectious diseases and opinions, interactions between competing species, and evolution of forest landscapes. In this thesis, we study three spatial models arising from from ecology and social sciences. First, in a model …
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Appreciative Inquiry summits and organizational knowledge creation: A social systems perspective
… to develop alternative models for analyzing the systems dynamics of a large group conference format called appreciative inquiry (AI) summits. I apply Luhmann’s social systems theory to the strategizing activities of AI summits to examine how this particular format is capable of generating …
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Comments on the cybernetics of stability and regulation in social systems
… to a discussion of stability and regulation in social systems taking a global viewpoint. The fundamental but still classical notion of stability as applied to homeostatic and ultrastable systems is discussed, with a particular reference to a specific well-studied example of a closed social group …
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Operational Risk Assessment in a Higher Education Institution : A Social Systems Perspective
… in different groups in a single institution. Social Systems Theory formed a framework to create new insights into reflexive understandings of risk, utilising data from interviews, and group discussions during risk assessment training. The study makes a significant contribution to knowledge …
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The Military of Guatemala and Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems
Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoietic social systems challenges traditional social science by dissolving the individual as an analytical category and replacing it with the functional structures of social systems. The opaque complexity of this model of thought has rendered it extremely difficult to …
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Conceptualizing dynamic models of social systems: lessons from a study of social change.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Modeling collective dynamics of social systems: Incorporating various social mechanisms into agent-based models
<p>I present three original papers demonstrating complex behavior arising from collective dynamics in agent-based models (ABM) focusing on evolutionary and cognitive mechanisms. The first report demonstrates the coupled emergence of cooperation and selfish punishment behavior in groups of …
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Cyber-Physical-Social Systems for Autonomous Defense: Enabling Mission-Centric, Adaptive, and Anytime Intelligence
Autonomous Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs) are rapidly transforming mission-critical domains such as transportation, defense, emergency response, and smart infrastructure by enabling real-time sensing, decentralized control, and autonomous decision-making. Yet the increasing complexity, …
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Household Food Security in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Natural and Social Systems
… in 2005, analyzes the role of natural capital, social capital, coping strategies, and levels of violence in determining household food security levels. Using remotely sensed data of two time points--Thematic Mapper (TM) of 1990 and Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) of 2000, vegetation information …
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Challenging social systems under the threat of pollution: Replication and extension of Eadeh and Chang (2019)
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