In this project I investigate what minimal conditions can allow a system to be regarded as a cognitive agent, i.e. what the subject of cognitive science is. An agent is a highly organized complex system which has intrinsic goals (in its minimal sense, persistence within viability boundary) and whose dynamical organization supports an informational description. Every agent, it follows, is inform...

Analysing stationary point databases to extract phenomenological rate constants can become time-consuming for systems with large potential energy barriers. In the present contribution we analyse several different approaches to this problem. First, we show how the original rate constant prescription within the discrete path sampling approach can be rewritten in terms of committor probabilities. ...

In this paper the role of technology in the life of organizations is examined in the context of five case studies. The studies show how the balance between the technology-oriented and people-oriented aspects of technology development and implementation is changing. Widespread use of technology in real-life working environments has brought to light new challenges and opportunities for learning a...

SupplyChainManagementInformationSystem(SCMIS)hasgainedalotofimportancebecause ofitsabilitytoreducecostsandincreaseresponsivenessinthesupplychain.Theimplementation ofSCMISisacomplicatedprocesswithsignificantrisk.Thestudieshaverevealedthatthesuccess inimplementingthesesystemsisnotveryencouraging.Therefore,itisnecessarytoestablishthe imped...

BACKGROUND Despite the effects of midwives on the health of family and community through promotion of maternal and child health indicators, they are not in the position of professional decision making. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the barriers to achieve professional management positions by midwives. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional study....

A Cooperative Information Gathering system may be abstracted as three communicating models: an informational model (IM), an organizational model (OM) and a task model (TM). This paper focuses on the informational model describing the Universe of Discourse (UoD) and the users' subjects of interest. It presents a new way of looking at ontology as a super-topic. Then, ontology in our IM is not use...