Sustainability Calling : Underpinning Technologies.
Massotte, Pierre.
Sustainability Calling : Underpinning Technologies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (453 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Welcome to the land of overwhelming sustainability! -- How can we address the concept of sustainability? -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why "Transformation" Is the One Keyword -- I.1. Where have we got by now? -- I.2. What evolution forward? -- I.3. Tackling transformation is the job -- I.4. A summary of the book -- I.5. What the present situation tells and the issues encountered -- I.5.1. Foreword -- I.5.2. Distinguishing sustainability from resilience -- I.6. A main concept: toward new ways of thinking -- I.7. Integrating the above theories into their context -- I.8. Application on an example relevant to entropy and network theory -- I.9. A basket of relevant keywords -- PART 1: Models That Can Aspire to be Better Suited to Future Needs -- 1: Disassembling Some Traditional Views -- 1.1. Time and space: past, present and future -- 1.2. The (big) law of correspondence -- 1.3. Intricate imbrications and their uncertainties -- 1.4. Many levels: subatomic, micro, meso, macro, chrono, etc. -- 2: Is Globalization, or Holism, Really a New Phenomenon? -- 2.1. Some characteristics of the present globalization -- 2.2. A brief history of a very old concept: globalization -- 2.3 The nature of today's globalization -- 2.4. Some features of today's globalization -- 2.5. Impacts of a disruption: "catastrophe" in a global context -- 2.6. Management in economy: risks and disturbances are also global -- 2.7. Extending and transposing these concepts to enterprises -- 2.8. Consequences: collective consciousness and behavior -- 2.9. A common idea of "catastrophism" and the need for ecology -- 2.10. Should we try to predict that the worst is yet to come? -- 2.10.1. The question is not "knowing what will happen and when", instead "what could and/or should happen". 2.10.2. Methods and tools related to conventional anticipation and prediction -- 2.11. What we can conclude at this stage -- 2.11.1. On process performance and governance guidance -- 2.11.2. On new constraints within a networked society -- 3: Underlying Disturbing Processes: Asymmetries, Coriolis and Chirality -- 3.1. By way of introduction -- 3.2. New ways of thinking -- 3.3. Information asymmetry -- 3.3.1. Symmetry and asymmetry in nature -- 3.3.2. A reminder on matter, dark matter and dark energy -- 3.3.3. What kind of matter and dark energy? Is it an asymmetry? -- 3.3.4. Physical or virtual substance? Aether and "mind stuff" -- 3.3.5. Asymmetry in nature: is this a novelty? -- 3.4. Information asymmetry in a call center business -- 3.5. General Information on asymmetry: antiglobalization corporations -- 3.6. Asymmetry in communication and decision systems -- 3.7. Decision-making in an asymmetric world -- 3.7.1. When does asymmetry occur? -- 3.7.2. Asymmetry due to mental predisposition (or soul) -- 3.7.3. Application -- 3.8. Chirality and symmetry and their impact on structures -- 3.8.1. Extensions of chirality -- 3.8.2. Applications of chirality -- 3.9. The Coriolis effect -- 3.9.1. A physics reminder: the dynamic movement of bodies -- 3.9.2. Description of the Coriolis effect -- 3.9.3. Displacement and moving of physical objects: a question of amplitude -- 3.9.4. Curvature of displacements on the Earth -- 3.9.5. Application to molecular physics -- 3.9.6. Insect flight stability too -- 3.9.7. The Coriolis effect on the shape of live beings -- 3.10. Characteristics of evolution: symmetric pattern growth -- 3.10.1. Growth process of living organisms -- 3.10.2. Local complexity growth -- 3.10.3. Characteristics of the fractal structures: applications -- 3.10.4. Traffic improvement -- 3.10.5. Sunflower considerations. 3.11. Conclusions on underlying disturbing processes -- 3.11.1. Generalities -- 3.11.2. From rationality to ethics -- 3.11.3. Consequences: highlighted concepts for a new engineering methodology -- 3.12. Appendix -- 4: Time and Space Revisited in the Context of Complex Systems -- 4.1. Time and space revisited in dwindling dance -- 4.2. The concept of time within complex systems -- 4.2.1. What is in an issue? -- 4.2.2. Notions relative to the perception of time: a static point of view -- 4.2.3. Digital time: a dynamic point of view -- 4.2.4. More about time with the Web -- 4.2.5. Time is not a continuous variable -- 4.2.5.1. Application -- 4.3. The perception of space -- 4.3.1. What is in an issue? -- 4.3.2. On the perception of a disturbance -- 4.4. Impacts related to the perception in space and time -- 4.4.1. The increasing reach of media -- 4.4.2. Knowledge management and the shrinking of the space-time system -- 4.4.3. On the rationality of our world -- 4.4.4. Are time and space essential parameters and variables? -- 4.4.5. How are antagonisms linked to time? -- 4.4.5.1. Simultaneity and quantum properties -- 4.5. On the reversibility of time -- 4.5.1. What is in a notion? -- 4.5.2. Example 1: the study of an inverse function -- 4.5.3. Examples 2: losing one's key, wasting or forgetting an idea -- 4.5.3.1. Going back in time is not time reversibility -- 4.5.4. Consequences for practical life: time's arrow -- 4.5.5. On decision support systems, reversibility and sustainability -- 4.6. Consequences for the complex systems surrounding us -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 4.7.1. Generalities -- 4.7.2. About decision-making -- 5: The Entropy of Systems -- 5.1. System entropy: general considerations -- 5.1.1. Introduction -- 5.1.2. Information and its underlying role in message and decision significance -- 5.1.3. Consequences. 5.1.3.1. Entropy: a reminder about historic and basic considerations -- 5.2. The issue and context of entropy within the framework of this book -- 5.3. Entropy: definitions and main principles - from physics to Shannon -- 5.3.1. Entropy: introduction and principles -- 5.3.2. A comment -- 5.4. Some application fields with consequences -- 5.4.1. Entropy in the telecommunications systems -- 5.4.2. Entropy in decision-making (for DSS applications) -- 5.4.2.1. A first comment -- 5.4.2.2. A second comment -- 5.5. Generalization of the entropy concept: link with sustainability -- 5.5.1. A comment -- 5.5.2. An interpretation of entropy -- 5.5.3. Diversity in measuring entropy -- 5.6. Proposal for a new information theory approach -- 5.7. Main conclusions -- PART 2: On Competitiveness: Nature as an Obvious Approach in Sustainability -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 6: A Continuous Survival of Species? Crisis and Consciousness Productions -- 6.1. Introduction and general considerations: what's new behind life? -- 6.2. Life survival: introduction and model transposition -- 6.3. Discussing the situation in between the three areas -- 6.4. Discussing the situation inside each of the three areas -- 6.5. Evolution of life: impact on management decision systems -- 6.5.1. How does the brain work? Are we exhaustively perceptive? -- 6.5.2. Levels of consciousness in the brain: application to DSS -- 6.5.3. Survival and decision-making: what makes the difference? -- 6.5.4. Consequences -- 6.6. Opening new thinking ways -- 6.6.1. When consciousness leads to ethics -- 6.7. Consciousness as an iterative feedback process growing from one level to another -- 6.8. Life and equilibriums in ecosystems -- 6.8.1. About the need for changing some paradigms -- 6.8.2. Application to ecosystems -- 6.8.3. Life: why and how? To perpetrate the survival of an ecosystem?. 6.8.4. Who is behind "survival" considerations? Who is the supervisor? -- 6.8.5. Survival methodologies: which attitude and behavior? -- 6.8.6. Role time and evolution mechanisms in survival -- 6.9 Conclusions -- 6.10. Consequences and action plan -- 7: Aging and Survival: Application to Human Beings, Eusociality and an Inclusive Society -- 7.1. A general consideration: what is new behind life? -- 7.2. A little bit more about aging, survival and eusociality -- 7.3. Does aging equal disability? -- 7.4. Aging and intelligence: variance and time dependency -- 7.5. Back to eusociality -- 7.5.1. What is in a concept? -- 7.5.2. Relationship with the "Inclusive Society" -- 7.6. As a first conclusion -- 7.7. Case study: aging, motivation and involvement in collaborative work -- 7.7.1. Introducing the case -- 7.7.2. The problem definition -- 7.7.3. Why the aging of an organization is often linked to that of its members -- 7.7.4. Aging and motivation -- 8: Evolution of Life Principles: Application to a Corporate Population -- 8.1. Introduction: corporate aging and dying -- 8.2. The human resources situation of small- and medium-sized enterprises -- 8.3. The human resources situation in senior enterprises -- 8.4. Global evolution: the product lifecycle of an enterprise -- 8.5. Product lifecycle management -- 8.6. Example of corporate life and death: the saturation stage -- 8.7. Product lifecycle of new technologies -- 8.8. How to model the evolution of an organism (enterprise) -- 8.9. How to measure and control aging in the enterprises -- Conclusion to Part 2: An Integrative View at Immortality -- C.1. Immortality of a living organism -- C.2. Three main questions -- C.2.1. Question 1: is immortality a possible issue for human beings and/or an organization? -- C.2.2. Question 2: immortality or better aging of a living system? [HEC 08]. C.2.3. Question 3: some considerations about the probability of dying.
9781119145370
Sustainable development.
Sustainable engineering.
Electronic books.
HC79.E5 .M377 2015
658.408
Sustainability Calling : Underpinning Technologies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (453 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Welcome to the land of overwhelming sustainability! -- How can we address the concept of sustainability? -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why "Transformation" Is the One Keyword -- I.1. Where have we got by now? -- I.2. What evolution forward? -- I.3. Tackling transformation is the job -- I.4. A summary of the book -- I.5. What the present situation tells and the issues encountered -- I.5.1. Foreword -- I.5.2. Distinguishing sustainability from resilience -- I.6. A main concept: toward new ways of thinking -- I.7. Integrating the above theories into their context -- I.8. Application on an example relevant to entropy and network theory -- I.9. A basket of relevant keywords -- PART 1: Models That Can Aspire to be Better Suited to Future Needs -- 1: Disassembling Some Traditional Views -- 1.1. Time and space: past, present and future -- 1.2. The (big) law of correspondence -- 1.3. Intricate imbrications and their uncertainties -- 1.4. Many levels: subatomic, micro, meso, macro, chrono, etc. -- 2: Is Globalization, or Holism, Really a New Phenomenon? -- 2.1. Some characteristics of the present globalization -- 2.2. A brief history of a very old concept: globalization -- 2.3 The nature of today's globalization -- 2.4. Some features of today's globalization -- 2.5. Impacts of a disruption: "catastrophe" in a global context -- 2.6. Management in economy: risks and disturbances are also global -- 2.7. Extending and transposing these concepts to enterprises -- 2.8. Consequences: collective consciousness and behavior -- 2.9. A common idea of "catastrophism" and the need for ecology -- 2.10. Should we try to predict that the worst is yet to come? -- 2.10.1. The question is not "knowing what will happen and when", instead "what could and/or should happen". 2.10.2. Methods and tools related to conventional anticipation and prediction -- 2.11. What we can conclude at this stage -- 2.11.1. On process performance and governance guidance -- 2.11.2. On new constraints within a networked society -- 3: Underlying Disturbing Processes: Asymmetries, Coriolis and Chirality -- 3.1. By way of introduction -- 3.2. New ways of thinking -- 3.3. Information asymmetry -- 3.3.1. Symmetry and asymmetry in nature -- 3.3.2. A reminder on matter, dark matter and dark energy -- 3.3.3. What kind of matter and dark energy? Is it an asymmetry? -- 3.3.4. Physical or virtual substance? Aether and "mind stuff" -- 3.3.5. Asymmetry in nature: is this a novelty? -- 3.4. Information asymmetry in a call center business -- 3.5. General Information on asymmetry: antiglobalization corporations -- 3.6. Asymmetry in communication and decision systems -- 3.7. Decision-making in an asymmetric world -- 3.7.1. When does asymmetry occur? -- 3.7.2. Asymmetry due to mental predisposition (or soul) -- 3.7.3. Application -- 3.8. Chirality and symmetry and their impact on structures -- 3.8.1. Extensions of chirality -- 3.8.2. Applications of chirality -- 3.9. The Coriolis effect -- 3.9.1. A physics reminder: the dynamic movement of bodies -- 3.9.2. Description of the Coriolis effect -- 3.9.3. Displacement and moving of physical objects: a question of amplitude -- 3.9.4. Curvature of displacements on the Earth -- 3.9.5. Application to molecular physics -- 3.9.6. Insect flight stability too -- 3.9.7. The Coriolis effect on the shape of live beings -- 3.10. Characteristics of evolution: symmetric pattern growth -- 3.10.1. Growth process of living organisms -- 3.10.2. Local complexity growth -- 3.10.3. Characteristics of the fractal structures: applications -- 3.10.4. Traffic improvement -- 3.10.5. Sunflower considerations. 3.11. Conclusions on underlying disturbing processes -- 3.11.1. Generalities -- 3.11.2. From rationality to ethics -- 3.11.3. Consequences: highlighted concepts for a new engineering methodology -- 3.12. Appendix -- 4: Time and Space Revisited in the Context of Complex Systems -- 4.1. Time and space revisited in dwindling dance -- 4.2. The concept of time within complex systems -- 4.2.1. What is in an issue? -- 4.2.2. Notions relative to the perception of time: a static point of view -- 4.2.3. Digital time: a dynamic point of view -- 4.2.4. More about time with the Web -- 4.2.5. Time is not a continuous variable -- 4.2.5.1. Application -- 4.3. The perception of space -- 4.3.1. What is in an issue? -- 4.3.2. On the perception of a disturbance -- 4.4. Impacts related to the perception in space and time -- 4.4.1. The increasing reach of media -- 4.4.2. Knowledge management and the shrinking of the space-time system -- 4.4.3. On the rationality of our world -- 4.4.4. Are time and space essential parameters and variables? -- 4.4.5. How are antagonisms linked to time? -- 4.4.5.1. Simultaneity and quantum properties -- 4.5. On the reversibility of time -- 4.5.1. What is in a notion? -- 4.5.2. Example 1: the study of an inverse function -- 4.5.3. Examples 2: losing one's key, wasting or forgetting an idea -- 4.5.3.1. Going back in time is not time reversibility -- 4.5.4. Consequences for practical life: time's arrow -- 4.5.5. On decision support systems, reversibility and sustainability -- 4.6. Consequences for the complex systems surrounding us -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 4.7.1. Generalities -- 4.7.2. About decision-making -- 5: The Entropy of Systems -- 5.1. System entropy: general considerations -- 5.1.1. Introduction -- 5.1.2. Information and its underlying role in message and decision significance -- 5.1.3. Consequences. 5.1.3.1. Entropy: a reminder about historic and basic considerations -- 5.2. The issue and context of entropy within the framework of this book -- 5.3. Entropy: definitions and main principles - from physics to Shannon -- 5.3.1. Entropy: introduction and principles -- 5.3.2. A comment -- 5.4. Some application fields with consequences -- 5.4.1. Entropy in the telecommunications systems -- 5.4.2. Entropy in decision-making (for DSS applications) -- 5.4.2.1. A first comment -- 5.4.2.2. A second comment -- 5.5. Generalization of the entropy concept: link with sustainability -- 5.5.1. A comment -- 5.5.2. An interpretation of entropy -- 5.5.3. Diversity in measuring entropy -- 5.6. Proposal for a new information theory approach -- 5.7. Main conclusions -- PART 2: On Competitiveness: Nature as an Obvious Approach in Sustainability -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 6: A Continuous Survival of Species? Crisis and Consciousness Productions -- 6.1. Introduction and general considerations: what's new behind life? -- 6.2. Life survival: introduction and model transposition -- 6.3. Discussing the situation in between the three areas -- 6.4. Discussing the situation inside each of the three areas -- 6.5. Evolution of life: impact on management decision systems -- 6.5.1. How does the brain work? Are we exhaustively perceptive? -- 6.5.2. Levels of consciousness in the brain: application to DSS -- 6.5.3. Survival and decision-making: what makes the difference? -- 6.5.4. Consequences -- 6.6. Opening new thinking ways -- 6.6.1. When consciousness leads to ethics -- 6.7. Consciousness as an iterative feedback process growing from one level to another -- 6.8. Life and equilibriums in ecosystems -- 6.8.1. About the need for changing some paradigms -- 6.8.2. Application to ecosystems -- 6.8.3. Life: why and how? To perpetrate the survival of an ecosystem?. 6.8.4. Who is behind "survival" considerations? Who is the supervisor? -- 6.8.5. Survival methodologies: which attitude and behavior? -- 6.8.6. Role time and evolution mechanisms in survival -- 6.9 Conclusions -- 6.10. Consequences and action plan -- 7: Aging and Survival: Application to Human Beings, Eusociality and an Inclusive Society -- 7.1. A general consideration: what is new behind life? -- 7.2. A little bit more about aging, survival and eusociality -- 7.3. Does aging equal disability? -- 7.4. Aging and intelligence: variance and time dependency -- 7.5. Back to eusociality -- 7.5.1. What is in a concept? -- 7.5.2. Relationship with the "Inclusive Society" -- 7.6. As a first conclusion -- 7.7. Case study: aging, motivation and involvement in collaborative work -- 7.7.1. Introducing the case -- 7.7.2. The problem definition -- 7.7.3. Why the aging of an organization is often linked to that of its members -- 7.7.4. Aging and motivation -- 8: Evolution of Life Principles: Application to a Corporate Population -- 8.1. Introduction: corporate aging and dying -- 8.2. The human resources situation of small- and medium-sized enterprises -- 8.3. The human resources situation in senior enterprises -- 8.4. Global evolution: the product lifecycle of an enterprise -- 8.5. Product lifecycle management -- 8.6. Example of corporate life and death: the saturation stage -- 8.7. Product lifecycle of new technologies -- 8.8. How to model the evolution of an organism (enterprise) -- 8.9. How to measure and control aging in the enterprises -- Conclusion to Part 2: An Integrative View at Immortality -- C.1. Immortality of a living organism -- C.2. Three main questions -- C.2.1. Question 1: is immortality a possible issue for human beings and/or an organization? -- C.2.2. Question 2: immortality or better aging of a living system? [HEC 08]. C.2.3. Question 3: some considerations about the probability of dying.
9781119145370
Sustainable development.
Sustainable engineering.
Electronic books.
HC79.E5 .M377 2015
658.408