... form of communication that has the potentially corrupting power to transform modern society. Jörg Räwel can be contacted at: joerg.raewel@gmail.com Communications technologies Sociology Social networks Systems theory Social change Evolution To avoid any misunderstanding...

... Yu is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: yufumao@zjgsu.edu.cn 09 10 2024 12 12 2024 19 03 2025 31 03 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Algorithms Game theory Decision making Evolution...

...Jianguo Li; Yuwen Gong; Hong Li Purpose This study aims to investigate the structural characteristics, spatial evolution paths and internal driving mechanisms of the knowledge transfer (KT) network in China’s patent-intensive industries (PIIs). The authors' goal is to provide valuable insights...

... for understanding evolution. The teleology of rat adaptations for niche fitness via maternal behavior has been demonstrated. Sterling's (2011) allostasis, or predictive homeostasis, is extended to include species-niche(s) interaction(s) that are governed by recursive information feedback loops that function via...

.... The formation of structures is the main phenomenon of evolution. Evolution can also be accepted as free, in the sense that it does not cost additional deaths. Design/methodology/approach Mathematical and logical development of the structure and thermodynamics in complex systems. Findings Based...

...-moralized while focusing on particular function systems’ binary codes and their repellence of substantive US climate change mitigation policy across systems. Design/methodology/approach The author achieves this purpose by resituating Luhmann’s conception of evolution to forgo systems teleology...

... intelligence Evolution Nomenclature Abbreviations Descriptions CD = Contrastive Divergence; CDSC = Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification; CSV = Comma-Separated Values; DBN = Deep Belief Network; DeepCNN = Deep Convolutional Neural Network; FDR = False...

...Jörg Räwel The proposed system theoretic concept of evolution theory makes it possible to shed new, constructive light on fundamental problems in the conventional biology of evolution. For example, with regard to the significance of the emergence of sexuality, or how phases of accelerated change...

... Conflict Evolution Political goals Purpose of research Resource dependence Survival Tenure Figure 1 shows the symbolic relationship between three levels of a social system: believing, thinking/feeling and doing/action. In a way thinking and related interest influence our behaviour...

... environments. University Control Adaptation Evolution Popper Academic freedom Social systems design Evolutionary design “The McDonaldization of Higher Education” is the title of the book edited by Hayes and Wynyard (2002) that addresses the increasing pursuit of efficiency, calculability...

... α and β. Heng-Li Yang can be contacted at: yanh@nccu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Information systems Artificial intelligence Genetic algorithm Evolution The growth of the internet and advancements in information technology has led...

...Zhiyun Zou; Peng Liu; Saisai Zhou; Yao Xiao; Xuecai Xu; Jianzhi Gao Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolving mechanism of urban roadway network. With the consideration of self-organization effect and planning effect during evolution, the authors try to demonstrate the impact...

... are provided for important questions like: how do civilizations or cultures form? Why did Western democracy not originate in Eastern Asian or other parts of the world? Why does each blown‐up that it bridges a transition between organizational expansion and contraction represents a weakest link in the evolution...

...Andrej Bertoncelj; Darko Kovač; Rok Bertoncel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate organisational evolution and change forces that influence the adaptation process. Despite significant research interest in this topic, the knowledge is still incomplete. Design/methodology/approach...

... Foundation, many of them relating to Computational Neuroscience, can be found at: www.theswartzfoundation.org Alex M. Andrew can be contacted at: alexandrew@britishlibrary.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Consciousness Robotics Evolution Spectroscopy The question...

...‐niche in pansystems space, evolution, intelligence development, philosophy of science, epistemology, psychology, pedagogy and teaching. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an application of pansystems principles to approach an ecology‐styled world outlook and methodology, related topics include...

...Ranulph Glanville; Wolfgang Jonas Purpose The paper seeks to make a substantial contribution to the still controversial question of design foundations. Design/methodology/approach A generic hypercyclic design process model is derived from basic notions of evolution and learning in different...

... of Creation of the Natural History 1844), and Darwin (Origin of Species 1859) each successively fell into the assumption that the problem par excellence which a theory of evolution must solve was the problem of design in nature. This conflict itself was, in modern jargon, a product of “co‐evolution...

...Vladimir S. Lerner Purpose Science of systems requires a specific and constructive mathematical model and language, which describe jointly such systemic categories as adaptation, self‐organization, complexity, evolution, and bring the applied tools for building a system model for each specific...

... Evolution Artificial intelligence Continuous processing also receives much attention in the recent biography of Norbert Wiener by Conway and Siegelman (2005) who refer to doubts expressed by various workers about the adequacy of the discrete approach. Wiener was notable for his continued preference...