We are honored and flattered that AMLE solicited such an interesting and informative set of reviews, and we are appreciative of the opportunity to add our voices to the discussion of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management. The reviewers raise a number of important issues that, in many instances, have implications far beyond our book. We d...

— If we were able to foresee the future, we could be prepared to reduce the impact of bad situations as well as getting the most of profiting periods. Our world is a dynamic system that evolves as time goes by. The number of variables that can influence in future situations outnumbers our capacity of prediction at a first glance. This article will show an alternative way to foresee potential fu...

This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical thinking and its intrinsic drawbacks when dealing with complexity. We then show how complexity forces us to take build models with indeterminacy and unpredictability. However, we can still deal with the...

This article presents a new method for generating discrete implicit surface models using interval arithmetics. This approach is unique to our knowledge and has the advantage of profiting of voxel representation for both modelling and visualization purposes. We’ve adopted high discrete resolutions to obtain better surface represention and realistic visualisation. Interval arithmetics guarantees ...

Profiting from the development of space remote sensing technology, the amount of remote sensing image data obtained by satellite is increasing dramatically; however, how to deal with these data quickly and efficiently has turned out to be a great computational challenge. With the rapid development of general-purpose GPU computing technology, researchers improved remote sensing applications base...

The planning of lessons and courses is a very complicated work. Unfortunately many teachers tend to prepare their lessons without profiting from the experiences of their colleagues. In this paper we show how the collaboration of teachers could be supported by a community software that supports the collaboration focusing on the knowledge elements that form the topic of the lesson that is to prep...