Allura is an open platform for open processes — Allura documentation Rather than build yet another forge, we decided to do something new. We wanted to build a new kind of extensible forge, and a new set of highly integrated forge tools. It’s easy to get frustrated with existing development tools. Too often they are overbearing, complex, and make assumptions that get in your way. And even if they are open source, it’s often difficult to get them to work the way you need them too. Which is why we created Allura. It’s open in bunch of ways: It’s a combination of tools available under Free or Open Source licenses.It’s designed around a plugin architecture, and anybody willing to contribute a tool can play.It’s being hosted publicly, and is built through contributions of individuals and companies who want to promote Open Source development.It’s designed to provide a structure around which welcoming (open) communities can grow.Its core tools are designed around inclusive development processes.
Social simulation Research field that applies to methods of studying issues in social science Social simulation aims to cross the gap between the descriptive approach used in the social sciences and the formal approach used in the natural sciences, by moving the focus on the processes/mechanisms/behaviors that build the social reality. In social simulation, computers support human reasoning activities by executing these mechanisms. This field explores the simulation of societies as complex non-linear systems, which are difficult to study with classical mathematical equation-based models. Robert Axelrod regards social simulation as a third way of doing science, differing from both the deductive and inductive approach; generating data that can be analysed inductively, but coming from a rigorously specified set of rules rather than from direct measurement of the real world. History and development[edit] Another improvement was brought by mathematician, John Conway. Joshua M. Kathleen M. Topics[edit]
Magazine / Columns : Open processes Magazine Open processes BILL KIRKMAN Two recent elections have been very different in their significance and their impact. With all due respect to the Liberal Democrat Party in the United Kingdom, the election of its new leader, Nick Clegg, on December 18, was not the sort of news that required editors around the world to hold the front page. The Lib Dems are the third party in the British political firmament. Realistically, the nearest they are likely to come to power in the foreseeable future is as holders of the balance in a “hung” parliament. Turn now to another election on the following day — that of Jacob Zuma as leader of the African National Congress in South Africa. Crucial outcome Clearly, South Africa has a crucial position in the African continent, and the leadership of the country has wide-ranging implications. The differences between the two leadership elections were obvious, but it is worth looking at something which made them similar. Courtesy still an asset Magazine
Social objects Actor-network theory has developed this concept as the object around which social networks form.[3] This version was applied to social media networks by Jyri Engeström in 2005 as part of the explanation of why some social media networks succeed and some fail. Engeström maintained that "Social network theory fails to recognise such real-world dynamics because its notion of sociality is limited to just people." Instead, he proposed what he called "object centered sociality," citing the work of the sociologist Karin Knorr-Cetina. For example, Engeström maintained that much of the success of the popular photo-sharing site Flickr was because photographs serve as social objects around which conversations of social networks form.[4] The concept was popularized by Hugh MacLeod, cartoonist and social observer in 2007.[5] See also[edit] Actor–network theory References[edit] Bibliography[edit]
Open the processes and the "books" Why is discussing salary so taboo? The systems are frequently indefensible. Although we have a desire for salary administration to be a meritocracy, base salaries are not performance based reflecting instead a number of factors including market conditions at time of hire, longevity, ability to negotiate and cost of living increases. Systems grow and are “patched” over time, what may have once made sense no longer does. Salaries and money are emotionally charged. Why is openness about money so difficult? In Your Brain at Work, David Rock describes how the human brain is attuned to status at a primal level: "A perceived threat to status feels as if it could come with terrible consequences. In most corporate environments, the strongest symbols of status often involve money -- who earns the most, and who controls the most. That's why opening the books needs to go hand in hand with a culture that supports open information, empowerment and common fate.
Sociocultural system A human population viewed in context A sociocultural system is a "human population viewed ouyess(1) in its ecological context and (2) as one of the many subsystems of a larger ecological system".[1] Conceptual Model of a Sociocultural System. The term "sociocultural system" embraces three concepts: society, culture, and system. In 1979, Marvin Harris outlined a universal structure of sociocultural systems. See also[edit] Conrad Phillip Kottak – American anthropologistCultural systemRoy Rappaport – American anthropologistSocietal collapse – Fall of a complex human societySustainability – Capacity to endure in a relatively ongoing waySystems theory – Interdisciplinary study of systemsSystems thinking – Examining complex systems as a wholeZeitgeist – Philosophical concept meaning "spirit of the age" References[edit]
A semantic framework for open processes We propose a general methodology for analysing the behaviour of open systems modelled as coordinators, i.e., open terms of suitable process calculi. A coordinator is understood as a process with holes or placeholders where other coordinators and components (i.e., closed terms) can be plugged in, thus influencing its behaviour. The operational semantics of coordinators is given by means of a symbolic transition system, where states are coordinators and transitions are labeled by spatial/modal formulae expressing the potential interaction that plugged components may enable. Behavioural equivalences for coordinators, like strong and weak bisimilarities, can be straightforwardly defined over such a transition system.
Social network Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations."[2] Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. Overview[edit] History[edit] In the late 1890s, both Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies foreshadowed the idea of social networks in their theories and research of social groups. Levels of analysis[edit] Self-organization of a network, based on Nagler, Levina, & Timme, (2011)[32] In general, social networks are self-organizing, emergent, and complex, such that a globally coherent pattern appears from the local interaction of the elements that make up the system.[33][34] These patterns become more apparent as network size increases. Micro level[edit] Meso level[edit] Macro level[edit]
Processes | Open Health Informatics The final piece of the Open Health Informatics jigsaw is the use of open development processes. Open source software is most usually constructed using an agile software development process, with continuous builds, automated testing and open issue logs. There is nowhere to hide in such a development process – what you see is, quite literally, what you get and if you want something different you can either contribute through the existing development community, or do it yourself. But open development processes, as embodied by agile methodologies such as Scrum, can deliver more than just software products. So how can agile methodologies deliver openness in the process of systems development and solution delivery? IT project managers often make reference to the Project Triangle — combining the three variables of resources (equating to timescale and cost), scope and quality.
Stochastic cellular automaton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cellular automaton with probabilistic rules Stochastic cellular automata or probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) or random cellular automata or locally interacting Markov chains[1][2] are an important extension of cellular automaton. Cellular automata are a discrete-time dynamical system of interacting entities, whose state is discrete. The state of the collection of entities is updated at each discrete time according to some simple homogeneous rule. PCA as Markov stochastic processes[edit] As discrete-time Markov process, PCA are defined on a product space (cartesian product) where is a finite or infinite graph, like and where is a finite space, like for instance or . where and is a probability distribution on . with a finite neighbourhood of k. Examples of stochastic cellular automaton[edit] Majority cellular automaton[edit] Relation to lattice random fields[edit] Cellular Potts model[edit] Non Markovian generalization[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit]
trolltech, phonon and open processes There's been a scatter-shot of updates on planet.kde.org and Google+ (and I assume elsewhere in places Id don't follow so closely) about Plasma Desktop's KRunner, Milou and Sprinter and, given the feedback and comments that I keep seeing, I fear that it is generally leaving people more confused than enlightened. Let's see if we can sort it all out together here. What people want Let's start by talking about the use cases these tools are intended to address, as that will help us understand why the tools exist and why they are designed the way they are. Essentially, people want to find and then open things. Find: The traditional way of finding something on a computer is to start with a user interface that lists a set of entry points and then navigate through them like a maze. Open: An application gets launched. So the point of all these tools is to find and open things. KRunner: A tale of two cities KRunner is the launch dialog in Plasma Desktop. Milou: Quick access to indexed files Fine!
Structural complexity (applied mathematics) Structural complexity is a science of applied mathematics, that aims at relating fundamental physical or biological aspects of a complex system with the mathematical description of the morphological complexity that the system exhibits, by establishing rigorous relations between mathematical and physical properties of such system. Structural complexity methods are based on applications of differential geometry and topology (and in particular knot theory) to interpret physical properties of dynamical systems. such as relations between kinetic energy and tangles of vortex filaments in a turbulent flow or magnetic energy and braiding of magnetic fields in the solar corona, including aspects of topological fluid dynamics.
Tom Fuentes: professional schmoozer, circumventer of open processes, and THUG I’ve been thinking about the mystery of Tom Fuentes’ occupation. Just what does this man do for a living? In documents, he states that he is a consultant. But what does that mean? Near as I can tell, Fuentes has had a series of jobs that include stuff that has routinely invited suspicions of dire corruptophilic hinkyhood. Fuentes performed mostly personnel work for the firm and sometimes lobbied public agencies for contracts. Evidently, at some point in the last ten years, Fuentes ceased his VP gig with T&A, but he still “consults” for them. Because I’m in a peevish mood, I shall close with this curious passage from Filkins’ 1996 article: In his drive to reduce the Democrats to political irrelevance, Fuentes has often taken on the role of GOP kingmaker. Yeah. SEE Guiding with an Iron Hand (LA Times, 1996) P.S.: I found an old LA Times article that might explain the mystery of Fuentes' odd departure from Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates: O.C.
Structured criticality Structured criticality is a property of complex systems in which small events may trigger larger events due to subtle interdependencies between elements. This often gives rise to a form of stratified chaos where the general behavior of the system can be modeled on one scale while smaller- and larger-scale behaviors remain unpredictable. For example: Consider a pile of sand. The pile retains its shape because occasionally a new grain of sand will trigger an avalanche which causes some number of grains to slide down the side of the cone into new positions. These avalanches are chaotic. However, the aggregate behavior of avalanches can be modeled statistically with some accuracy. The avalanches are caused when the impact of a new grain of sand is sufficient to dislodge some group of sand grains. Each group of sand grains can be thought of as a sub-system with its own state, and each sub-system can be made up of other sub-systems, and so on.