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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970758403321

Autore

Lawrence W. Gordon

Titolo

Social dreaming @ work / / by W. Gordon Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 1998

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©1998

ISBN

0-429-91931-X

0-429-90508-4

0-429-48031-8

1-283-12535-8

9786613125354

1-84940-253-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LawrenceW. Gordon

Disciplina

154.6/3

154.63

Soggetti

Dreams

Dreams - Social aspects

Dream interpretation

Work - Psychological aspects

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 (p. 183-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Prologue; Chapter 1. ""Won from the void and formless infinite"": experiences of social dreaming; Chapter 2. Dreaming to learn: pathways to rediscovery; Chapter 3. Vision in organizational life; Chapter 4. The use of dreams in systems-centred theory; Chapter 5. The social dreaming matrix; Chapter 6. After Shakespeare-the language of social dreaming; Chapter 7. Thinking aloud: contributions to three dialogues; Chapter 8. Creating new cultures: the contribution of social dreaming

Chapter 9. Social dreaming as a tool of consultancy and action researchChapter 10. Simultaneity and parallel process: an on-line applied social dreaming matrix; Chapter 11. Social dreaming @ work;



REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins date back to the early 1980s. At that time,the authorwas on the scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He was a core member of the Institute's Group Relations Program, within which he had developed a distinctive approach centering around the concept of "relatedness" - that is, the ways in which individual experience and behavior reflects and is structured by conscious and unconscious constructs of the group or organization in the mind.'What the author has discovered or rediscovered in the social dreaming matrix is another context of contexts for dreaming, in which the emotional experience on which our capacity for dreaming, for entertaining dream thoughts, works is not that of the pair but that of the many: group, society, tribe, collective, race, species.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972512703321

Titolo

Ant colonies : behavior in insects and computer applications / / Emily C. Sun, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, NY, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61122-398-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Computer science, technology and applications

Altri autori (Persone)

SunEmily C

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Swarm intelligence

Ants - Nests

Ants - Behavior

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""; ""PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATION OFCO-OPERATING COLONIES/COLLECTIONS OF ANTS/AGENTS (POOCA) FOR COMPETENT PHEROMONE-BASED NAVIGATION AND MULTI-AGENT



LEARNING""; ""ANT COLONY SOLUTION TO THE OPTIMAL TRANSFORMER SIZING AND EFFICIENCY PROBLEM IN POWER SYSTEMS""; ""DISTRIBUTED DECISIONS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM RADIO-TAGGED ANTS""; ""IMPACTS, ECOLOGY AND DISPERSAL OF THE INVASIVE ARGENTINE ANT""; ""ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION USED IN NO WAVEFRONT SENSOR ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS FOR SOLID-STATE LASERS""; ""ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION:APOWERFUL STRATEGY FOR BIOMARKER FEATURE SELECTION""

""ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION BASED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION FORWIRELESS NETWORKS""""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

Ant colony optimisation is a population-based general-search technique that can be used for the solution of difficult combinatorial problems. Ant colony optimisation uses the knowledge-reinforcing mechanism used by real-life ants while traversing possible paths in search of food, depositing a chemical substance (called pheromone), en-route and subsequently forming trails which can then be followed by other ants in the colony. With its strong mathematical foundation and its simplicity of use, ant colony optimisation provides an alternative method to routing optimisations with a wide range of applications. This book presents topical research in the study of ant colonies, their behaviour and application in computer technologies.