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Free Download The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation by Elke Weik, Chris Land, Ronald Hartz
English | August 19, 2024 | ISBN: 3110998327 | 324 pages | MOBI | 0.91 Mb
This handbook gathers contributors from different disciplines of the social sciences, such as organization and management studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, to constructively discuss the kinds of transformations we need to see in coming years. These transformations concern the way we work, produce and consume but also the way in which we think about work, production and consumption.

Free Download Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 9th International Workshop, WSOM 2012 Santiago, Chile, December 12-14, 2012 Proceedings By Barbara Hammer, Andrej Gisbrecht, Alexander Schulz (auth.), Pablo A. Estévez, José C. Príncipe, Pablo Zegers (eds.)
2013 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 3642352294 | PDF | 19 MB
Self-organizing maps (SOMs) were developed by Teuvo Kohonen in the early eighties. Since then more than 10,000 works have been based on SOMs. SOMs are unsupervised neural networks useful for clustering and visualization purposes. Many SOM applications have been developed in engineering and science, and other fields.This book contains refereed papers presented at the 9th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2012) held at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, on December 12-14, 2012. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners in the field of self-organizing systems. Among the book chapters there are excellent examples of the use of SOMs in agriculture, computer science, data visualization, health systems, economics, engineering, social sciences, text and image analysis, and time series analysis. Other chapters present the latest theoretical work on SOMs as well as Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) methods.

Free Download The ART of ORGANIZING: How to synergize all your human, physical, and financial resources to consistently produce excellent results by Edward Murphy
English | March 11, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VDXVVCG | 153 pages | EPUB | 2.56 Mb
This book is about ORGANIZING, the science of getting and keeping your act together. It’s the revised and updated 2024 edition.

Free Download Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 1-5, 2004, Revised Selected Papers By Koichi Hori (auth.), Gunter Grieser, Yuzuru Tanaka (eds.)
2005 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 3540244654 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in March 2004.The 17 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on man-machine interface for intuitive knowledge access, intelligent pad and meme media, visualization and design of information access spaces, and semantics and narrative organization and access of knowledge.

Free Download Shlomo Sharan, Ivy Geok Chin Tan, "Organizing Schools for Productive Learning"
English | 2008 | pages: 117 | ISBN: 1402083947 | PDF | 0,6 mb
A major problem confronting schools is that many students are turned off from learning and are bored. Boredom is destructive of learning. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initiative of the US government (2001) stemmed from the claim – accompanied by sharp debates pro and con – that many schools in the United States fail to achieve basic educational objectives, and that many schools are doing a poor job for a wide variety of reasons and surely not just because of student boredom (Brigham, Gustashaw, Wiley, & Brigham, 2004; Essex, 2006; Goodman, Shannon, Goodman, & Rapoport, 2004; Sunderman, Tracey Jr. , Kim, & Orfield, 2004). The model of school organization and instruction presented here seeks to provide an effective plan for significant improvement in secondary school education, one of whose central aims is to make students genuinely engaged in what they are learning. The NCLB legislation emphasizes, inter alia, the need for school improvement. Without it one cannot reasonably anticipate improvement over current levels in student engagement in learning and in academic achievement. The NCLB literature frequently employs the term "school improvement" to refer to the quality of the teachers, such as their academic credentials, instructional competence, and their knowledge of subject matter. Similarly, "school restructuring" is said to include steps such as transforming the school into a charter school, replacing the teaching staff, or inviting a private company to administer the school. The use of those terms in this work is distinctly different.

Free Download Advances in Applied Self-Organizing Systems By Mikhail Prokopenko (auth.), Mikhail Prokopenko (eds.)
2013 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 1447151127 | PDF | 10 MB
How do we design a self-organizing system? Is it possible to validate and control non-deterministic dynamics? What is the right balance between the emergent patterns that bring robustness, adaptability and scalability, and the traditional need for verification and validation of the outcomes?The last several decades have seen much progress from original ideas of "emergent functionality" and "design for emergence", to sophisticated mathematical formalisms of "guided self-organization". And yet the main challenge remains, attracting the best scientific and engineering expertise to this elusive problem.This book presents state-of-the-practice of successfully engineered self-organizing systems, and examines ways to balance design and self-organization in the context of applications.As demonstrated in this second edition of Advances in Applied Self-Organizing Systems, finding this balance helps to deal with practical challenges as diverse as navigation of microscopic robots within blood vessels, self-monitoring aerospace vehicles, collective and modular robotics adapted for autonomous reconnaissance and surveillance, self-managing grids and multiprocessor scheduling, data visualization and self-modifying digital and analog circuitry, intrusion detection in computer networks, reconstruction of hydro-physical fields, traffic management, immunocomputing and nature-inspired computation.Many algorithms proposed and discussed in this volume are biologically inspired, and the reader will also gain an insight into cellular automata, genetic algorithms, artificial immune systems, snake-like locomotion, ant foraging, birds flocking, neuromorphic circuits, amongst others. Demonstrating the practical relevance and applicability of self-organization, Advances in Applied Self-Organizing Systems will be an invaluable tool for advanced students and researchers in a wide range of fields.

Free Download Lorie Medina, "Community Organizing for Conservatives: A Manifesto for Localism in the Tea Party Movement"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004S32AEY | EPUB | pages: 29 | 0.7 mb
New from Broadside Books’ Voices of the Tea Party. Lorie Medina explains how she became involved with the Tea Party movement and how her background prepared her for her important role. She shares with the reader how to start a local grassroots organization and helps to prepare them for many of the challenges they will face. Lorie uses real people and real situations to explain best practices for local tea party groups. Throughout the book, Lorie focuses on the necessity of local groups to truly affect lasting change in America.

Free Download J.C. Principe, Risto Miikkulainen, "Advances in Self-Organizing Maps"
English | 2009 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 3642023967 | PDF | 14,9 mb
th These proceedings contain refereed papers presented at the 7 WSOM held at the Casa Monica Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida, June 8-10, 2009. We designed the wo- shop to serve as a regular forum for researchers in academia and industry who are interested in the exciting field of self-organizing maps (SOM). The program includes excellent examples of the use of SOM in many areas of social sciences, economics, computational biology, engineering, time series analysis, data visualization and c- puter science as well a vibrant set of theoretical papers that keep pushing the envelope of the original SOM. Our deep appreciation is extended to Teuvo Kohonen and Ping Li for the plenary talks and Amaury Lendasse for the organization of the special sessions. Our sincere thanks go to the members of the Technical Committee and other reviewers for their excellent and timely reviews, and above all to the authors whose contributions made this workshop possible. Special thanks go to Julie Veal for her dedication and hard work in coordinating the many details necessary to put together the program and local arrangements. Jose C. Principe Risto Miikkulainen

Free Download Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
by Aure Schrock
English | 2024 | ISBN: 026254945X | 256 Pages | PDF | 84 MB

Free Download Subir Verma, "Organizing and Managing in the Era of Globalization"
English | 2010 | pages: 476 | ISBN: 8132102460 | PDF | 1,8 mb
This book discusses the issues and challenges of organizing and managing in the context of a globalized world. It provides insights and perspectives on the realities of organization in a world where governance structures, organizational processes, management practices, and employment relations are in a vortex of transformation. It analyzes the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional, and legal factors that shape these realities.