Perspective—Quasi-Natural Organization Science

Science, Reputation, and Organization

Massagli oversaw the collection and initial analysis of the survey data. Harvey Brooks, Lewis Branscomb, and Michelle Gittleman provided helpful comments. 2 ABSTRAC T The reasons why profit-seeking enterprises undertake to "do" science have captured the attention of sociologists, organizational theorists, and economists. This article argues that scientific research organizations arrange themsel...

Natural science.

The Science and Information Organization

In this paper, we report the results of new experiments that test the performance of Scala parallel collections to find the fair value of riskless bond portfolios using commodity multicore platforms. We developed four algorithms, each of two kinds in Scala and ran them for one to 1024 portfolios, each with a variable number of bonds with daily to yearly cash flows and 1 year to 30 year. We ran ...

The Science and Information Organization

Biometrics technology already becomes one of many application needs for identification. Every organ in the human body might be used as an identification unit because they tend to be unique characteristics. Many researchers had their focus on human organ biometrics physical characteristics such as fingerprint, human face, palm print, eye iris, DNA, and even behavioral characteristics such as a w...

Self-organization and social science

Complexity science and its methodological applications have increased in popularity in social science during the last two decades. One key concept within complexity science is that of self-organization. Self-organization is used to refer to the emergence of stable patterns through autonomous and self-reinforcing dynamics at the micro-level. In spite of its potential relevance for the study of s...