Cultural algorithms : tools to model complex dynamic social systems / / Robert G. Reynolds

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830781303321
• Autore: Reynolds Robert G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2020]; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2020]
• ISBN: 1-119-40309-X; 1-119-40310-3; 1-119-40311-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: IEEE Press series on computational intelligence
• Disciplina: 300.15181
• Soggetti: Social systems - Mathematical models
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. System Design Using Cultural Algorithms -- Introduction -- The Cultural Engine -- Outline of the Book: Cultural Learning in Dynamic Environments -- 2. The Cultural Algorithms Toolkit -- Cultural Algorithms Toolkit Overview -- Downloading and Running CAT -- The Repast Simphony System -- Knowledge Sources -- Fitness Functions -- Conesworld -- The Logistics Function -- Cultural Algorithms Toolkit Sample Runs: Conesworld -- Cultural Algorithms Toolkit Sample Runs: Other Problems -- 3. Problem Solving Using Social Networks in Cultural Algorithms with Auctions -- Introduction -- Cultural Algorithms -- Subcultured Heterogeneous Networks -- Auction Mechanisms -- The Cultural Engine -- Cones World -- Experimental Framework -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Using Common Value Auction In Cultural Algorithm to Enhance Robustness and Resilience of Social Knowledge Distribution Systems -- Cultural Algorithms -- Common Value Auction -- Cones World -- Dynamic Experimental Framework -- Results -- Conclusions and Future Work -- 5. Optimizing AI Pipelines: A Game-Theoretic Cultural Algorithms Approach -- Introduction -- Overview of Cultural Algorithms -- Cultural Algorithms Knowledge Distribution Mechanisms -- Primer on Game Theory -- Game Theoretic Knowledge Distribution -- Continuous-Action Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -- Play -- Payoff -- Outcome -- Learning Rate Adjustment -- ; Test Results: Benchmark Problem -- Test Results: Computer Vision Pipeline -- Conclusions -- 6. Cultural Algorithms for Social Network Analysis - Case Studies in Team Formation -- Introduction -- Application of Social Network -- Forming Successful Teams -- Formulating TFP -- Communication Cost -- Personnel Cost -- Distance Cost -- Workload Balance -- Why Artificial Intelligence? -- Cultural Algorithms -- Forming Teams in Co-authorship Network -- Individual Representation -- Fitness Function -- Belief Space -- Dataset and Observations -- Skill Frequency -- Forming Teams in Healthcare Network -- Individual Representation.; Fitness Function -- Dataset and Observation -- Summary and Conclusion -- 7. Evolving Emergent Team Strategies in Robotic Soccer using Enhanced Cultural Algorithms -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Related Work -- The 2D Soccer Simulation Testbed -- Evolution of team strategies via Cultural Algorithm -- Experiments and Analysis of Results -- Conclusion -- References -- 8. The Use of Cultural Algorithms to Learn the Impact of Climate on Local Fishing Behavior in Cerro Azul, Peru -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Cerro Azul Fishing Data Set -- Data Mining at the Macro, Meso, and Micro Levels -- Cultural Algorithms and Multi-Objective Optimization -- The Artisanal Fishing Model -- The Experimental Results -- Statistical Validation -- Conclusions and Future Work -- 9. CAPSO: A Parallelized Multiobjective Cultural Algorithm Particle Swarm Optimizer -- Introduction -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Cultural Algorithms -- CAPSO Knowledge Structures -- Tracking Knowledge Source Progress (Other than Topographic) -- CAPSO Algorithm Pseudocode -- Multiple Runs -- Benchmark Problems Comparison -- Overall Summary of Results -- Other Applications -- 10. Exploring Virtual Worlds with Cultural Algorithms: Ancient Alpena-Amberley Land Bridge -- Archaeological Challenges -- Generalized Framework -- The Land Bridge Hypothesis -- Origin and Form -- Putting Data to Work -- Path-Finding and Planning -- Identifying Good Locations -- Cultural Algorithms -- Cultural Algorithm Mechanisms -- The Composition of the Belief Space -- Future Work -- Path Planning Strategy -- Local Tactics -- Detailed Locational Information -- Extending the Cultural Algorithms -- Human Presence in the Virtual World -- Increasing the Complexity -- Updated Path-Planning Results -- The Fully Rendered Land Bridge -- Pathfinder Mechanisms -- Results -- Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""The Foundations of Social Intelligence" covers a wide range of the basic framework of cultural algorithms, from the history of its development to how other nature-inspired algorithms can be expressed. It also demonstrates how the social organizational structures that make up human socio-political systems can be modeled in terms of cultural algorithms. It explores how the learning process is expressed in thermodynamic terms as a cultural engine, while proposing several social metrics to assess their performance. Cultural algorithms are a computational framework for understanding human social evolution based upon anthropological and archaeological models of cultural evolution. The key is how we can we use cultural algorithms as a vehicle to understand why these building blocks are ubiquitous across the globe in computational terms. The performance of the basic social models are compared against each other relative to the different categories of complex systems problems"--

Japanese Management in Change : The Impact of Globalization and Market Principles / / edited by Norio Kambayashi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298495403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 4-431-55096-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 330; 658.1; 658.3; 658.4092
• Soggetti: Personnel management; Organization; Planning; Leadership; Human Resource Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; Japan Management; Japan Economic conditions 1989-; Japan
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Japanese Management in Change -- The Perceived Development and Unperceived Decline of Corporate Governance in Japan -- Empirical analysis of the influence of outside directors on Japanese firm performance -- The Social Roles of Japanese Companies under the "New Public" Policy -- Formation of the New Japanese Style Management Strategy -- Strategy and interorganizational relations of Japanese companies -- Financial Market Globalization and Its Influence on Japanese Firms -- Electronic Book Publishing Formats and the Response of Japanese Publishers -- ”Limited Regular Employees” and Boundary of Employment -- Changes in performance appraisal in Japanese companies -- Leadership skills for enhancing subordinates’ ; ability to learn from experience -- The Study of Career and Promotion Systems in Japan -- A Discussion of the Development of Work-Life Balance in Japan.
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the burst of the “economic bubble” in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in corporate governance were widely discussed during that decade in studies on “Japanese management.” These discussions have resulted in little progress, however, since Americanization became the dominant discourse concerning governance and the management system. There have been few studies conducted from an academic point of view on the internal aspects of organizations that practice traditional Japanese management theory. This book examines how, and the degree to which, the development of market principles accompanying the advances of globalization has affected the traditional Japanese system. It focuses on four aspects of corporate management: management institutions, strategy, organization, and human resource management. The aggregation of the new management system in Japanese companies is regarded as a distinctive Japanese-style system of management. With emphasis on these four aspects, research was conducted on the basic structure of that system, following changes in the market, technology, and society. Further, specific functions of the basic structure of the Japanese-style management system were studied. Those findings are included here, along with a discussion and analysis of the direction of future changes.