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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456969803321

Autore

Alpaslan Can M (Can Murat)

Titolo

Swans, swine, and swindlers [[electronic resource] ] : coping with the growing threat of mega-crises and mega-messes / / Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-8108-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

High reliability and crisis management

Altri autori (Persone)

MitroffIan I

Disciplina

658.4/77

Soggetti

Crisis management

Conflict management

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Part I: Uncovering Assumptions; 1. A Crisis Is Not What We Have Been Led to Believe;  Every Crisis Is an Existential Crisis of Meaning; 2. What Is a Mess? The Fundamental Differences Between Exercises, Problems, and Messes; 3. All Crises Are Messes; 4. When Good Organizations Do Unwise, Immature, and Bad Things; 5. It's the Culture; Part II: Managing Assumptions; 6. Overcoming Mega-Denial; 7. Beyond Fear-Based Crisis Management; Part III: Applications; 8. The Art and Science of Messy Inquiry

9. Trust, Transparency, and Reliability: What Can the HROs Teach the Financial Sector?Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question:  What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11?This book explores the concept of ""messes."" A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or wicked problems; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values. The roots of messes can be classified as Swans (the inability to surface and test false assumptions and mistaken beliefs), Swine (the inability to confront and m



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484667103321

Titolo

String Processing and Information Retrieval : 13th International Conference, SPIRE 2006, Glasgow, UK, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings / / edited by Fabio Crestani, Paolo Ferragina, Mark Sanderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006

ISBN

3-540-45775-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 370 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 4209

Altri autori (Persone)

CrestaniFabio

FerraginaPaolo <1969->

SandersonMark

Disciplina

025.04

Soggetti

Information storage and retrieval systems

Artificial intelligence

Database management

Artificial intelligence - Data processing

Coding theory

Information theory

Algorithms

Information Storage and Retrieval

Artificial Intelligence

Database Management

Data Science

Coding and Information Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Web Clustering and Text Categorization -- MP-Boost: A Multiple-Pivot Boosting Algorithm and Its Application to Text Categorization -- TreeBoost.MH: A Boosting Algorithm for Multi-label Hierarchical Text Categorization -- Cluster Generation and Cluster Labelling for Web Snippets: A Fast and Accurate Hierarchical Solution -- Principal Components for Automatic Term Hierarchy Building -- Strings --



Computing the Minimum Approximate ?-Cover of a String -- Sparse Directed Acyclic Word Graphs -- On-Line Repetition Detection -- User Behavior -- Analyzing User Behavior to Rank Desktop Items -- The Intention Behind Web Queries -- Web Search Algorithms -- Compact Features for Detection of Near-Duplicates in Distributed Retrieval -- Inverted Files Versus Suffix Arrays for Locating Patterns in Primary Memory -- Efficient Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics -- Output-Sensitive Autocompletion Search -- Compression -- A Compressed Self-index Using a Ziv-Lempel Dictionary -- Mapping Words into Codewords on PPM -- Correction -- Improving Usability Through Password-Corrective Hashing -- Word-Based Correction for Retrieval of Arabic OCR Degraded Documents -- Information Retrieval Applications -- A Statistical Model of Query Log Generation -- Using String Comparison in Context for Improved Relevance Feedback in Different Text Media -- A Multiple Criteria Approach for Information Retrieval -- English to Persian Transliteration -- Bio Informatics -- Efficient Algorithms for Pattern Matching with General Gaps and Character Classes -- Matrix Tightness: A Linear-Algebraic Framework for Sorting by Transpositions -- How to Compare Arc-Annotated Sequences: The Alignment Hierarchy -- Web Search Engines -- Structured Index Organizations for High-Throughput Text Querying -- Adaptive Query-Based Sampling of DistributedCollections -- Short Papers -- Dotted Suffix Trees A Structure for Approximate Text Indexing -- Phrase-Based Pattern Matching in Compressed Text -- Discovering Context-Topic Rules in Search Engine Logs -- Incremental Aggregation of Latent Semantics Using a Graph-Based Energy Model -- A New Algorithm for Fast All-Against-All Substring Matching.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held October 11-13, 2006, in Glasgow, Scotland. The SPIRE annual symposium provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present original contributions to areas such as string processing (dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text c- pression, text mining, natural language processing, and automata-based string processing); information retrieval languages, applications, and evaluation (IR modelling, indexing, ranking and ?ltering, interface design, visualization, cro- lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, W- related applications, XML, information retrieval from semi-structured data, text mining, and generation of structured data from text); and interaction of biology and computation (sequencing and applications in molecular biology, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and sequen- driven protein structure prediction). The papers in this volume were selected from 102 papers submitted from over 20 di?erent countries in response to the Call for Papers. A total of 26 submissions were accepted as full papers, yielding an acceptance rate of about 25%. In view of the large number of good-quality submissions the Program Committee decided to accept 5 short papers, that have also been included in the proceedings. SPIRE 2006 also featured two talks by invited speakers: Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Martin Farach-Colton (Rutgers University, USA).