This paper objective presenting some challenges and reflections about Governance, Knowledge Society and Sociotechnical Systems. Based on the Action Network Theory, Theory of Constraints and others techniques, questions are pointed and discussed in a systematic and innovative way. Points like the synergism and collaborative ecosystem research efforts, organizations knowledgeable and organization...

as discussed in the main text. Following Bayes rule, p res (kr) is then the sum of the product of the probabilities that a node in the extended residual network has degree kr given that it had original degree ko , (pres(kr|ko)), the probability that the node of original degree ko was uninfected in the rst epidemic, (ηko), and the probability that the node had original degree ko , (pko) . In a s...

forests as a renewable source has effective and useful role in economic and social activities of society. network of forest roads as infrastructure division’s forest planning units (compartments) of forest management plans, management, logging, exit of wood and plays a major role forest protection. aim of this study, designed forest road network according to multi-purpose forestry using the net...

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Cognitive radio networks are expected to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem by dynamically accessing any available spectrum in licensed and unlicensed bands. These networks are expected to be aware of the operating environment and learn to optimize their behavior accordingly. During this process they “evolve”, co-operate and compete with other networks, expect to receive rewards for their a...

The issue that this paper addresses is whether we live in a network society and what spatial implications networking has for society. A network is the inner structure of a self-organising system comprised of parts, their relationships/interactions and the patterns that emerge from the interactions. Space is made by all internal structures of a system that are delimited by a system border from a...

Out society is changing. This statement does not necessarily follow from the observation of a particular society, but can also be derived from the attention sociologists (and others) pay to the theme of a changing society. There are numerous examples of sociological analyses of the 'new' society, like the post-modern society (Bell, Lyotard), the risk society (Beck), the global society (Giddens,...

In the knowledge society innovation plays a key role in determining a firm’s competitive advantage. Simultaneously interorganizational alliances have grown over the last decade. These two factors combined place alliances’ contribution to the innovative capabilities of the firm as an important question within organization studies. Most of the literature within the field has exclusively examined ...