USA: getting to organised labour

Division of Labour in Self-organised Groups

In social insect colonies, many tasks are performed by higherorder entities, such as groups and teams whose task solving capacities transcend those of the individual participants. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of such higher-order entities using a colony of up to 12 physical robots. We report on an experimental study in which the robots engage in a range of different activities, i...

Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، فروردین 1398، 2-1             آشنایی با روش گروه صوری Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique   محسن رضائیان[1]،[2]   M. Rezaeian   در سخن سردبیری بهمن ماه سال گذشته به روش دلفی پرداخته و اشاره کردیم که این روش، یکی از راه‌های دست‌یابی به توافق پیرامون یک موضوع می‌باشد [1]. هدف از نگارش این سخن سردبیری، پرداخت...

Organised Behaviour and Organised Identity

There is growing body of literature which offers reviews of the concepts of organised crime and political violence, while documenting the official efforts to address such concepts jointly and treat them as a single issue. It would be intriguing to investigate how members of organised criminal groups and violent political groups respectively react to such official efforts. In my own memory, when...

Organised Chaos

Learning to cope with the day-to-day tasks of life is a crucial factor in recovery from a depressive illness. A housewife explains how she has learnt to cope with the ups and downs by planning accordingly.

Applying Self-Organised Criticality to Evolutionary Algorithms