OASIS XML Interchange Language (XMILE) for System Dynamics TC
Defining an open XML protocol for sharing interoperable system dynamics models and simulations. Steven Adler, adler1@us.ibm.com, ChairKarim Chichakly, kchichakly@iseesystems.com, Chair Table of Contents
Long Tail
An example of a power law graph showing popularity ranking. To the right (yellow) is the long tail; to the left (green) are the few that dominate. In this example, the areas of both regions are equal.
Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium
Agent Modeling Platform (AMP) (link is external) “The AMP project provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for representing, editing, generating, executing and visualizing agent-based models (ABMs) and any other domain requiring spatial, behavioral and functional features.” AnyLogic (link is external) A Java-based modeling platform deployed on Eclipse that supports “System Dynamics, Process-centric (AKA Discrete Event), and Agent Based modeling.” Ascape (link is external) A platform “designed to be flexible and powerful, but also approachable, easy to use and expressive.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Concepts[edit] According to Tapscott, Wikinomics is based on four ideas: Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally. The use of mass collaboration in a business environment, in recent history, can be seen as an extension of the trend in business to outsource: externalize formerly internal business functions to other business entities. The difference however is that instead of an organized business body brought into being specifically for a unique function, mass collaboration relies on free individual agents to come together and cooperate to improve a given operation or solve a problem.
Cognitive Robotics » Systems
Here, you can find most of the systems developed so far by the group. All of them are based on Prolog (usually Eclipse, SWI, LPA, and Quintus.) Golog: A high-level agent programming language. An interpreter in SWI Prolog can be found here. An interpreter in ECLIPSE Prolog can be found here. More code related with Golog can be found in Reiter’s book Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems.
The World Is Flat
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual shift required for countries, companies, and individuals to remain competitive in a global market where historical and geographical divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Friedman himself is a strong advocate of these changes, calling himself a "free-trader" and a "compassionate flatist", and he criticizes societies that resist these changes.
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Thomas L. Friedman
History of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?
« L’éloge de la faiblesse » d’Alexandre Jollien
Quelques mots sur le livre Ce premier livre, écrit en 1999, a pour fil conducteur la joie, rencontrée au cœur des épreuves, mais aussi au hasard de l’existence. Construit sur la base d’une conversation imaginaire avec Socrate, Alexandre Jollien nous y dévoile les grandes étapes de sa vie, et s’interroge sur la notion de « normalité ».
