Self-Organizing Networks in Complex Infrastructure Projects

While significant importance is given to establishing formal organizational and contractual hierarchies, existing project management techniques neglect the management of self-organizing networks in large-infrastructure projects. We offer a case-specific illustration of self-organization using network theory as an investigative lens. The findings have shown that these networks exhibit a high degree of sparseness, short path lengths, and clustering in dense “functional” communities around highly connected actors, thus demonstrating the small-world topology observed in diverse real-world self-organized networks. The study underlines the need for these non-contractual functions and roles to be identified and sponsored, allowing the self-organizing network the space and capacity to evolve

Studia nad oryginalnym i współczesnym układem Ogrodów Nazar w mieście Shiraz w Iranie

Shiraz city was famous for its beautiful gardens that shaped its landscape. Nazar Garden, with its buildings was designed by Karim Khan in the 18th c. The aim of the research was to compare the size and layout of the Garden during the Zand Period with its contemporary shape. The research was based on literature sources, available plans and an on-site survey.Shiraz było miastem słynnym z pięknych ogrodów, które kształtowały jego obraz. Ogród Nazar ze swymi budowlami został zaprojektowany przez Karima Khana w XVIII wieku. Celem badań było porównanie rozmiarów i rozplanowania Ogrodu w czasach dynastii Zand z jego współczesną formą. W badaniu wykorzystano literaturę przedmiotu, dostępne plany i badania in situ

Managing Computer Networks Security through Self-Organization : a Complex System Perspective

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Towards self-organizing computer networks: A complex system perspective

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Dynamic epistemic logic for implicit and explicit beliefs

The dynamic turn in Epistemic Logic is based on the idea that notions of information should be studied together with the actions that modify them. Dynamic epistemic logics have explored how knowledge and beliefs change as consequence of, among others, acts of observation and upgrade. Nevertheless, the omniscient nature of the represented agents has kept finer actions outside the picture, the most important being the action of inference. Following proposals for representing non-omniscient agents, recent works have explored how implicit and explicit knowledge change as a consequence of acts of observation, inference, consideration and even forgetting. The present work proposes a further step towards a common framework for representing finer notions of information and their dynamics. We propose a combination of existing works in order to represent implicit and explicit beliefs. Then, after adapting definitions for the actions of upgrade and retraction, we discuss the action of inference on beliefs, analyzing its differences with respect to inference on knowledge and proposing a rich system for its representation

Abduction for (non-omniscient) agents

Among the non-monotonic reasoning processes, abduction is one of the most important. Usually described as the process of looking for explanations, it has been recognized as one of the most commonly used in our daily activities. Still, the traditional definitions of an abductive problem and an abductive solution mention only theories and formulas, leaving agency out of the picture. Our work proposes a study of abductive reasoning from an epistemic and dynamic perspective, making special emphasis on non-ideal agents. We begin by exploring what an abductive problem is in terms of an agent’s information, and what an abductive solution is in terms of the actions that modify it. Then we explore the different kinds of abductive problems and abductive solutions that arise when we consider agents whose information is not closed under logical consequence, and agents whose reasoning abilities are not complete

Self-Organisation : Paradigms and Applications

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Self-Organising Applications: A Survey

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