24 research outputs found

    Vergini, fiori, mostri: figure di àōroi nell’epica latina augustea e flavia

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    Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918

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    "Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe

    Personal- og HR-funksjonen i Norge 1945 til 2020. En historisk studie av organisatoriske felt og institusjonelle logikker

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    Using neo-institutional theory as a lens, this thesis analyzes the Norwegian personnel and HR functions as a professional field in the period 1945-2020. In an attempt to establish a link to the organizational level, the thesis also examines the evolution of The Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s personnel and HR function during the same time period. The study employs a qualitative and historical research design, and draws on a variety of data sources, gathered by means of 69 in-depth interviews as well as extensive examinations of archival source material. The research question centers around how the field’s two institutional logics (strategy-oriented and support-oriented) evolve and interplay over time. The findings indicate that both logics can be traced back to the inception of the professional field. Throughout history, the strategy-oriented logic has not had a great impact on the field. The limited influence of the strategy-oriented logic has been a recurring theme during the last 75 years and has shaped the field’s collective narratives and identities. Since the 1980s, a distinct issue field focusing on HR-related themes has emerged, in parallel with the professional field. The study shows that the growth of the HR issue field has lead to a weakening of the professional field. The study develops a typology of handling mechanisms that can be used to analyze the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s handling of the professional field’s institutional logics: (1) non-response, (2) balancing, (3) separation, and (4) cooptation. The study shows that these four ways of handling institutional logics vary in terms of relative importance. Handling mechanisms that may have been dominant in one time period may become less influential in later time periods. Compared with previous studies that have focused primarily on short and delineated time periods, this study provides a longitudinal and historical view that sheds more light on the complexity of organizations’ handling of institutional logics. It is argued that organizational-level factors and processes influence the relative importance of the different handling mechanisms. Organizational characteristics such as culture, identity, and actors constitute an «organizational filter.» In some periods, the organizational filter may shut out much of what is happening at the field-level, while during other time periods, the filter may change and make the organization more attentive and receptive to dominant field-level institutional logics

    Was ist Public Interest Design? Beiträge zur Gestaltung öffentlicher Interessen

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    Das Designfeld ist im Umbruch. Sowohl die Theorie als auch die Praxis suchen 'neue' Betätigungsfelder und streben nach einem anderen Selbstverständnis. Man will politisches Design machen, will als Akteur gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen wahrgenommen werden, zuweilen wohl gar die neue Leitdisziplin des urbanen Wandels werden. Unter einem erweiterten Designbegriff stellt sich daher die Frage: Was heißt es, im Sinne eines öffentlichen Interesses zu gestalten? Und vielleicht noch mehr: Was heißt es, das öffentliche Interesse selbst zu gestalten? Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen dieser Frage nach und zeigen: Ein solcher Anspruch ist eine Anmaßung - ob es eine wohltuende Anmaßung ist, hängt in erster Linie von der kritischen Hinterfragung der Grundidee ab. Mit Beiträgen von unter anderem Gernot Böhme, Friedrich von Borries, Bazon Brock, Heike Delitz und Jesko Fezer

    Investigar en arte

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    La Cátedra de Metodología de la Investigación de la Facultad de Bellas Artes tiene sus fundamentos en la escuela metodológica fundada en nuestro país por el Prof. Dr. Juan Samaja, su pensamiento enraizado en el modelo de la complejidad nos permite diferenciar varias dimensiones en el proceso de investigación, cuestión que posibilita operacionalizar el problema planteado en torno a la pregunta sobre el estatuto de la investigación artística. Consideramos que es responsabilidad de la Cátedra ahondar en estos debates, estudiar el quehacer de la investigación en arte, aportar nuestra visión y contribuir a esclarecer los diferentes planos en los que se despliega el problema, introducir a los alumnos en los aspectos o dimensiones relevantes a analizar en eso que se sintetiza en el sintagma Metodología de la Investigación en Arte. Este libro no reemplaza bibliografía sugerida en el programa, lo pensamos como un aporte que pretende ayudar a explicitar a los alumnos aspectos teóricos referidos al campo de la investigación artística que en los textos propuestos pueden resultarles abstractos o generales.Facultad de Bellas Arte

    Investigar en arte

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    La Cátedra de Metodología de la Investigación de la Facultad de Bellas Artes tiene sus fundamentos en la escuela metodológica fundada en nuestro país por el Prof. Dr. Juan Samaja, su pensamiento enraizado en el modelo de la complejidad nos permite diferenciar varias dimensiones en el proceso de investigación, cuestión que posibilita operacionalizar el problema planteado en torno a la pregunta sobre el estatuto de la investigación artística. Consideramos que es responsabilidad de la Cátedra ahondar en estos debates, estudiar el quehacer de la investigación en arte, aportar nuestra visión y contribuir a esclarecer los diferentes planos en los que se despliega el problema, introducir a los alumnos en los aspectos o dimensiones relevantes a analizar en eso que se sintetiza en el sintagma Metodología de la Investigación en Arte. Este libro no reemplaza bibliografía sugerida en el programa, lo pensamos como un aporte que pretende ayudar a explicitar a los alumnos aspectos teóricos referidos al campo de la investigación artística que en los textos propuestos pueden resultarles abstractos o generales.Fil: Wood, Lucia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Bellas Artes; ArgentinaFil: Quiroga, Jorgelina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Bellas Artes; ArgentinaFil: Monticcelli, Marta. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Bellas Artes; ArgentinaFil: Alessandroni Bentancor, Nicolás Jesús. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sadaf; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Bellas Artes; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Murillo, Jesús Manuel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; ArgentinaFil: Quiroga Branda, Pablo Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Bellas Artes; Argentin

    Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation

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    Aquesta conferència és la celebració conjunta de la "10th Artificial Economics Conference AE", la "10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association ESSA" i la "1st Simulating the Past to Understand Human History SPUHH".Conferència organitzada pel Laboratory for Socio­-Historical Dynamics Simulation (LSDS-­UAB) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Readers will find results of recent research on computational social science and social simulation economics, management, sociology,and history written by leading experts in the field. SOCIAL SIMULATION (former ESSA) conferences constitute annual events which serve as an international platform for the exchange of ideas and discussion of cutting edge research in the field of social simulations, both from the theoretical as well as applied perspective, and the 2014 edition benefits from the cross-fertilization of three different research communities into one single event. The volume consists of 122 articles, corresponding to most of the contributions to the conferences, in three different formats: short abstracts (presentation of work-in-progress research), posters (presentation of models and results), and full papers (presentation of social simulation research including results and discussion). The compilation is completed with indexing lists to help finding articles by title, author and thematic content. We are convinced that this book will serve interested readers as a useful compendium which presents in a nutshell the most recent advances at the frontiers of computational social sciences and social simulation researc

    Evolution through reputation: noise-resistant selection in evolutionary multi-agent systems

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    Little attention has been paid, in depth, to the relationship between fitness evaluation in evolutionary algorithms and reputation mechanisms in multi-agent systems, but if these could be related it opens the way for implementation of distributed evolutionary systems via multi-agent architectures. Our investigation concentrates on the effectiveness with which social selection, in the form of reputation, can replace direct fitness observation as the selection bias in an evolutionary multi-agent system. We do this in two stages: In the first, we implement a peer-to-peer, adaptive Genetic Algorithm (GA), in which agents act as individual GAs that, in turn, evolve dynamically themselves in real-time, using the traditional evolutionary operators of fitness-based selection, crossover and mutation. In the second stage, we replace the fitness-based selection operator with a reputation-based one, in which agents choose their mates based on the collective past experiences of themselves and their peers. Our investigation shows that this simple model of distributed reputation can be successful as the evolutionary drive in such a system, exhibiting practically identical performance and scalability to direct fitness observation. Further, we discuss the effect of noise (in the form of “defective” agents) in both models. We show that the reputation-based model is significantly better at identifying the defective agents, thus showing an increased level of resistance to noise

    Qualitative and semi-quantitative modelling and simulation of the software engineering processes

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    Software process modelling has been identified as being a vehicle for understanding development processes, controlling development costs, duration, and achieving product quality. In recent years, software process simulation has been becoming one of the essential techniques for effectively investigating and managing software development processes. Till now, most researches focus on the quantitative aspects of process simulation and modelling. Nevertheless, purely quantitative process modelling requires a very detailed understanding and accurate measurement of the software process, which relies on reliable and precise historical data. When such data are lacking or the quality is dubious, quantitative models have to impose severe constraints that restrict the model's value. Unfortunately, these data are not readily available in most cases, especially in the organisations at low process maturity levels. In addition, software development is a highly complex, human-centred endeavour, which involves many uncertain factors in the course of development process. Facing the inherent uncertainty and contingency, though quantitative modelling employs statistic techniques, its conditional capability and underlying assumptions limit its performance on large scale problems. As the alternatives of quantitative approaches, qualitative modelling can cope with a lack of complete knowledge, and predicts qualitative process behaviours. Furthermore, semi-quantitative modelling offers the capability of handling process uncertainty with limited knowledge, and achieves tradeoff between quantitative and qualitative approaches. However, most previous researches omitted these approaches, and the associated methods and applications are far from developed. The main contribution of this research lies in the pioneering work on the models, methods, and applications of qualitative and semi-quantitative software process modelling and simulation, and their relations with the conventional, quantitative modelling approaches. This dissertation produces its novelty from twofold research. Firstly, it explores methods and techniques to qualitatively and semi-quantitatively model and simulate software processes at different levels, i.e. project, portion of development process, and product evolution. Secondly, Some exclusive applications of these modelling approaches are also developed for aspects of software engineering practice. Moreover, a proposed framework integrates these approaches with typical quantitative paradigms to guide the adoption of process simulation modelling in software organisations. As a comprehensive reflection of state-of-the-art of software process simulation modelling, a systematic review is reported in this dissertation as well
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