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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452464203321

Autore

Dolata Ulrich

Titolo

The transformative capacity of new technologies : a theory of sociotechnical change / / Ulrich Dolata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07008-9

1-299-38680-6

1-135-08990-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 96

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Social aspects

Technology - Social aspects

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

Front Cover; The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. The transformative capacity of new technologies: an introduction; 2. Technology and sectors; 2.1. Business sectors as sociotechnical fields; 2.2 Surveying and mapping the functional elements of sectors; 2.3 The full picture: sectoral modes of regulation; 3. Types of innovation and sociotechnical transformation; 3.1 Starting point: types of innovation and their effects; 3.2 Basic concepts: periods of mismatch, sociotechnical transformations, and transition pathways

3.3 Specifications: transformative capacity, adaptability, gradual transformation4. New technologies and their transformative capacity; 4.1 Structuration and transformation through technology; 4.2 The contexts in which new technologies emerge and are applied: endogenous vs. exogenous technologies; 4.3 Variant I: low transformative capacity; 4.4 Variant II: high transformative capacity; 4.5 Transformative capacity as a pragmatic research approach; 5. New technologies and sectoral adaptability; 5.1 Transformative impulses from technology and how sectors cope with them

5.2 Variant I: inadaptability5.3 Variant II: proactive adaptability; 5.4



Variant III: power-based adaptability; 5.5 Adaptability as a pragmatic research approach; 6. New technologies and sectoral transformation; 6.1 Transformative capacity, adaptability, and gradual transformation; 6.2 Gradual transformation and substantial change: empirical introduction; 6.3 Between continuity and change: institutionalism's attempts at eliminating a blind spot; 6.4 Radical change as gradual transformation: characteristics and variants of sociotechnical change

6.5 Gradual transformation as a pragmatic research approachNotes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change. Rarely, however, have answers been put forward on the related question of processes of socioeconomic and institutional change, provoked by emerging new technological opportunities and constraints. The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies redresses this imbalance, explori

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483617203321

Titolo

Developments in Language Theory : 10th International Conference, DLT 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 26-29, 2006, Proceedings / / edited by Oscar H. Ibarra, Zhe Dang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-540-35430-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 456 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 4036

Altri autori (Persone)

IbarraOscar H

DangZhe <1967->

Disciplina

005.13/1

Soggetti

Machine theory

Computer science

Computer science - Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Theory of Computation

Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation



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

Invited Lectures -- Adding Nesting Structure to Words -- Can Abstract State Machines Be Useful in Language Theory? -- Languages in Membrane Computing: Some Details for Spiking Neural P Systems -- Computational Nature of Biochemical Reactions -- Papers -- Polynomials, Fragments of Temporal Logic and the Variety DA over Traces -- Weighted Automata and Weighted Logics on Infinite Words -- Simulation Relations for Alternating Parity Automata and Parity Games -- Equivalence of Functions Represented by Simple Context-Free Grammars with Output -- On the Gap-Complexity of Simple RL-Automata -- Noncanonical LALR(1) Parsing -- Context-Free Grammars and XML Languages -- Synchronization of Pushdown Automata -- Context-Dependent Nondeterminism for Pushdown Automata -- Prime Decompositions of Regular Languages -- On Weakly Ambiguous Finite Transducers -- Ciliate Bio-operations on Finite String Multisets -- Characterizing DNA Bond Shapes Using Trajectories -- Involution Solid and Join Codes -- Well-Founded Semantics for Boolean Grammars -- Hierarchies of Tree Series Transformations Revisited -- Bag Context Tree Grammars -- Closure of Language Classes Under Bounded Duplication -- The Boolean Closure of Growing Context-Sensitive Languages -- Well Quasi Orders and the Shuffle Closure of Finite Sets -- The Growth Ratio of Synchronous Rational Relations Is Unique -- On Critical Exponents in Fixed Points of Non-erasing Morphisms -- P Systems with Proteins on Membranes and Membrane Division -- Computing by Only Observing -- A Decision Procedure for Reflexive Regular Splicing Languages -- Contextual Hypergraph Grammars – A New Approach to the Generation of Hypergraph Languages -- End-Marked Maximal Depth-First Contextual Grammars -- Some Examples of Semi-rational DAG Languages -- Finding Lower Bounds for NondeterministicState Complexity Is Hard -- Lowering Undecidability Bounds for Decision Questions in Matrices -- Complexity of Degenerated Three Dimensional Billiard Words -- Factorial Languages of Low Combinatorial Complexity -- Perfect Correspondences Between Dot-Depth and Polynomial-Time Hierarchy -- Language Equations with Complementation -- Synchronizing Automata with a Letter of Deficiency 2 -- On Some Variations of Two-Way Probabilistic Finite Automata Models.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2006, held in Santa Barbara, CA, June 2006. The book presents 36 revised full papers together with 4 invited papers. All important issues in language theory are addressed including grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays; efficient text algorithms; algebraic theories for automata and languages; and more.