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    The uncertain story of career development

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    In this paper, the central role of uncertainty in career development and its implications for counselling, coaching and education practice as well as policy will be explored. It is argued that although uncertainty was recognised in the earliest formulations of career counselling models, it was subsequently largely ignored or deemed unimportant in nearly all of the dominant theories of career development for the remainder of the 20th century. More recently theorists have begun to acknowledge once more the central importance of uncertainty in career development, and more broadly in areas as diverse as science and politics. The reasons and importance of this renewed focus is explored with particular emphasis on chaos and complexity theories. The Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) (Pryor & Bright, 2011) will be presented as theory that provides a powerful way of understanding the relationship between order and chaos, pattern and surprise as composites not opposites. Accepting that uncertainty is an inevitable, inescapable and ubiquitous part of life leads to new approaches to career development practice, theory and policy

    Eco‐Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to  Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain Towards  Digital Transition 

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    The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a circular business model based on an Eco-Holonic Architecture, through the integration of circular economy and holonic principles. A conceptual model is developed to manage the complexity of integrating circular economy principles, digital transformation, and tools and frameworks for sustainability into business models. The proposed architecture is multilevel and multiscale in order to achieve the instantiation of the sustainable value chain in any territory. The architecture promotes the incorporation of circular economy and holonic principles into new circular business models. This integrated perspective of business model can support the design and upgrade of the manufacturing companies in their respective industrial sectors. The conceptual model proposed is based on activity theory that considers the interactions between technical and social systems and allows the mitigation of the metabolic rift that exists between natural and social metabolism. This study contributes to the existing literature on circular economy, circular business models and activity theory by considering holonic paradigm concerns, which have not been explored yet. This research also offers a unique holonic architecture of circular business model by considering different levels, relationships, dynamism and contextualization (territory) aspects

    Leveraging Component-Based Software Engineering with Fraclet

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    International audienceComponent-based software engineering has achieved wide acceptance in the domain of software engineering by improving productivity, reusability and composition. This success has also encouraged the emergence of a plethora of component models. Nevertheless, even if the abstract models of most of lightweight component models are quite similar, their programming models can still differ a lot. This drawback limits the reuse and composition of components implemented using different programming models. The contribution of this article is to introduce Fraclet as a programming model com- mon to several lightweight component models. This programming model is presented as an annotation framework, which allows the developer to annotate the program code with the elements of the abstract component model. Then, using a generative approach, the annotated program code is completed according to the programming model of the component model to be supported by the component runtime environment. This article shows that this annotation framework provides a significant simplification of the program code by removing all dependencies on the component model interfaces. These benefits are illustrated with the Fractal and OpenCOM component models

    Agent-based simulation of a project fractal company

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    In response to competitive pressures small and medium enterprises have begun to form alliances between them. This allows each company to increase their ability to react and adapt to changes in their business environment, concentrating on their core competencies, increase the availability of resources and gain economies of scale. Thus, the project-based fractal company model enables virtual and temporary integration between different companies to achieve specific business objectives. The successful implementation of the model lies in the establishment of client-server relationships between project managers. This paper analyses the use of agentbased simulation to show behaviors that emerge from the interaction of project managers and resources managers when they establish client-server relationships. To do this, use Netlogo language as a tool intends to demonstrate emergent behavior resulting from interactions between agents of the fractal company.XVII Workshop Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes (WASI).Red de Universidades con Carreras en InformĂĄtica (RedUNCI

    Agent-based simulation of a project fractal company

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    In response to competitive pressures small and medium enterprises have begun to form alliances between them. This allows each company to increase their ability to react and adapt to changes in their business environment, concentrating on their core competencies, increase the availability of resources and gain economies of scale. Thus, the project-based fractal company model enables virtual and temporary integration between different companies to achieve specific business objectives. The successful implementation of the model lies in the establishment of client-server relationships between project managers. This paper analyses the use of agentbased simulation to show behaviors that emerge from the interaction of project managers and resources managers when they establish client-server relationships. To do this, use Netlogo language as a tool intends to demonstrate emergent behavior resulting from interactions between agents of the fractal company.XVII Workshop Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes (WASI).Red de Universidades con Carreras en InformĂĄtica (RedUNCI

    The Last Scientific Revolution

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    Critically growing problems of fundamental science organisation and content are analysed with examples from physics and emerging interdisciplinary fields. Their origin is specified and new science structure (organisation and content) is proposed as a unified solution
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