Measuring Group Personality with Swarm AI

The aggregation of individual personality tests to predict team performance is widely accepted in management theory but has significant limitations: the isolated nature of individual personality surveys fails to capture much of the team dynamics that drive real-world team performance. Artificial Swarm Intelligence (ASI), a technology that enables networked teams to think together in real-time and answer questions as a unified system, promises a solution to these limitations by enabling teams to take personality tests together and converge upon answers that best represent the group’s disposition. In the present study, the group personality of 94 small teams was assessed by having teams take a standard Big Five Inventory (BFI) test both as individuals, and as a real-time system enabled by an ASI technology known as Swarm AI. The predictive accuracy of each personality assessment method was assessed by correlating the BFI personality traits to a range of real-world performance metrics. The results showed that assessments of personality generated using Swarm AI were far more predictive of team performance than the traditional survey-based method, showing a significant improvement in correlation with at least 25% of performance metrics, and in no case showing a significant decrease in predictive performance. This suggests that Swarm AI technology may be used as a highly effective team personality assessment tool that more accurately predicts future team performance than traditional survey approaches

A RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN FREUDIAN AND EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A UNIFIED PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY

Freudian and existential psychoanalysis have been traditionally understood as adhering to incompatible philosophical presuppositions concerning the nature of man and his relation to the world. This has resulted in the preclusion of any contemporary mutually fruitful dialogue between them, and a disregard of each other\u27s important discoveries and insights in both their theory and practice. In this thesis, I show that the above opposition is far less recalcitrant than traditionally believed, and that the establishment of harmonious relations between these two forms of psychoanalysis is not only possible but necessary via philosophical analysis. I first disclose and explicate the primary philosophical presuppositions underlying Freud\u27s metapsychological theory and those underlying his therapeutic practice to show that Freud held two discrepant conceptions of man. I argue that the philosophical presuppositions of Freud\u27s theory are incompatible with the existentialist concept of freedon, whereas those underlying Freudian practice harmonize quite closely with this conception (as well as others of the existentialists). While doing so, I note several essential agreements between Freud, the practitioner, and Heidegger\u27s analysis of human existence. In addition, I indicate several of the unresolved problems intrinsic to Freudian psychoanalysis when it is considered as a whole. Next I argue that an appropriate ontological foundation is essential for the establishment of the most genuine rapprochement between Freudian and existential psychoanalysis. I show that Freudian psychoanalysis lacks a proper ontological foundation, and contend Heidegger\u27s analysis of human existence in Being and Time provides the most appropriate and primordial ontological foundation for psychoanalytic therapy. Since it was necessary to work concretely through Heidegger\u27s actual analysis in its unity to substantiate my claim, I offer an elliptical version of it for purposes of clarification and later reference. I then argue that Heidegger\u27s ontological analysis best satisfies certain crucial criteria for providing the most appropriate and primordial grounding for psychoanalytic therapy in the fruition of his analysis of Dasein via his phenomenological methodology. Finally, I place Heidegger in a dialogue with some of his primary ontological critics and competitors, and argue from a Heideggerean from a standpoint that certain key features of Sartre\u27s ontological proposal presupposes Heidegger\u27s analysis and is simply misguided. I also evaluate Sartre\u27s critique of Heidegger\u27s ontology and offer a Heideggerean rebuttal. I then consider Jaspers\u27 ultimate challenge that any ontological grounding of psychoanalysis is impossible per se, and also his specific critique of Heidegger. I argue that Jaspers\u27 critique is groundless. One it has been shown that Freud (as a therapist) and Heidegger (who provides the philosophical framework for Binswanger\u27s and Boss\u27 existential psychoanalysis) share a common understanding of man, and that this understanding finds its most appropriate and primordial grounding Heidegger\u27s ontological analysis of human existence, the most genuine rapprochement between these two forms of psychoanalysis is firmly in hand. I then suggest that this rapproachment, if taken seriously could facilitate an advance in psychoanalytical knoweldge and therapeutic effectiveness without the concomitant loss of the concretely existing individual

TER1: From Sensor to Scientist: Emissary and Cyberinfrastructure for Sensor Networks in Terrestrial Ecological Research

EMISSARY is a field-portable interface for advanced data visualization, modelling, and data exploration of sensor micronets. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) are combined to expand our understanding of data collected from sensors in the field. EMISSARY supplies real-time access to current and archived data and data models. It also provides field guidance and facilitates the process of sensor configuration, calibration, testing and debugging. It provides researchers with the capability to produce models using past and real-time data for hypothesis testing and experiment planning

From Sensor to Scientist Emissary and Cyberinfrastructure for Sensor Networks in Terrestrial Ecological Research

EMISSARY is a new system under development for an advanced data visualization, spatio-temporal modeling interface, and field portable tools for in-situ data exploration of sensormicronets and distributed instrument management. Our research is defining a set of functional capabilities for an advanced system for in the field communication with a sensormicronet and distributed instrumentation, on-line and interactive modeling tools, and system diagnostics and configuration interfaces. Conceptually this system would be a hand-held PDA or laptop class computer with wireless communication to mote-class devices (sensor nodes), networked data-logging instruments, WAN/LAN, and the Internet

From Sensor to Scientist Emissary and Cyberinfrastructure for Sensor Networks in Terrestrial Ecological Research

EMISSARY is a new system under development for an advanced data visualization, spatio-temporal modeling interface, and field portable tools for in-situ data exploration of sensormicronets and distributed instrument management. Our research is defining a set of functional capabilities for an advanced system for in the field communication with a sensormicronet and distributed instrumentation, on-line and interactive modeling tools, and system diagnostics and configuration interfaces. Conceptually this system would be a hand-held PDA or laptop class computer with wireless communication to mote-class devices (sensor nodes), networked data-logging instruments, WAN/LAN, and the Internet