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Understanding the Digital World

Modeling with HERAKLIT

By: Peter Fettke

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Understanding the Digital World

Modeling with HERAKLIT

By: Peter Fettke

This book fills a serious gap by providing a conceptual framework for understanding the digital world. This world contains large, heterogeneous systems that have to manage dynamic behavior as well as static items and data. Obviously, new, digital methods are needed to deal with the challenges of the digital world. This book introduces such a method with Heraklit, an intuitively simple, albeit powerful framework for modeling, communicating, and analyzing computer-integrated systems. It integrates proven methods for composing modules, describing behavior with local cause and effect, and digitally representing real- and imagined-world items, resulting in a comprehensive, expressive, concerted, technically simple, digital modeling method. This book is structured according to three Heraklit pillars, starting in Part I with the central Heraklit concept of modules, in particular their composition and refinement. Part II covers the second pillar of Heraklit, dynamics, focusing on modules that describe aspects of behavior. Part III focuses on static aspects. In particular, real- and imagined-world items and their symbolic representation are carefully distinguished and related. Together, these three pillars are consolidated in Part IV, integrating all concepts into a powerful formal framework. The book concludes in Part V with a more comprehensive case study of a typical retail business, recommendations on how to start modeling with Heraklit, and useful graphical conventions for the graphical representation of Heraklit models. Heraklit covers the range from the first informal structuring ideas for a computer-integrated system, through the specification of (business) processes, the contributions of people, organizations, and mechanical devices, up to the construction of software. The book is therefore written for students in areas related to system modeling, system design, and system engineering, as well as for professionals in these fields.

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Springer Nature

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303161898X

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9783031618987

Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability

By: Peter E. Tarlow

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Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability

By: Peter E. Tarlow

Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability examines the impacts that historical, political, and social campaigns targeting police practices have had on law enforcement in general and on the tourism industry in particular, specifically focusing on recent developments in both the USA and Mexico.

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297

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1803824050

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Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems

By: Stefan Thurner,Rudolf Hanel,Peter Klimek

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Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems

By: Stefan Thurner,Rudolf Hanel,Peter Klimek

This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex systems, be it ecosystems, societies, traffic, financial markets, opinion formation and spreading, or the internet and social media. Complex systems are systems composed of many elements that interact strongly with each other, which makes them extremely rich dynamical systems showing a huge range of phenomena. Properties of complex systems that are of particular importance are their efficiency, robustness, resilience, and proneness to collapse. The quantitative tools and concepts needed to understand the co-evolutionary nature of networked systems and their properties are challenging. The book gives a self-contained introduction to these concepts, so that the reader will be equipped with a toolset that allows them to engage in the science of complex systems. Topics covered include random processes of path-dependent processes, co-evolutionary dynamics, dynamics of networks, the theory of scaling, and approaches from statistical mechanics and information theory. The book extends beyond the early classical literature in the field of complex systems and summarizes the methodological progress made over the past 20 years in a clear, structured, and comprehensive way.

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480

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Oxford University Press

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0192555073

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Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

By: Peter Franz,Mathias Kirchmer

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Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

By: Peter Franz,Mathias Kirchmer

Value-Driven Business Process Management gives business leaders in any industry the rationale and methods for using BPM to gain clarity on how their business operates and develop the ability to put new ideas into action quickly. Readers learn how to redirect their focus from a "method-and-tool" view of BPM to a more broadly informed view of BPM as a management approach and put it to practical use to initiate action within their organization.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007179171X

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9780071791717

Understanding the Digital World

Modeling with HERAKLIT

By: Peter Fettke

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You Must Change Your Life

By: Peter Sloterdijk

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You Must Change Your Life

By: Peter Sloterdijk

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'. In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the worker, communication the communicator, feelings the feeler. It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.

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Polity

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0745649211

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Infinite Mobilization

By: Peter Sloterdijk

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Infinite Mobilization

By: Peter Sloterdijk

The core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia of modernity is exposed, its seemingly stable foundation cracks open and new problems appear: things don’t happen according to plan because as we actualize our plans, we set in motion other things that we didn’t want as unintended side-effects. We watch with mounting unease as the self-perpetuating side-effects of modern progress overshadow our plans, as a foreign movement breaks off from the very core of the modern project supposedly guided by reason and slips away from us, spinning out of control. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into an uncontrollable and catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. And precisely because so much comes about through our actions, these developments turn out to have explosive consequences for our self-understanding, as we begin to realize that, so far from bringing the world under our control, we are instead the agents of our own destruction. In this brilliant and insightful book Sloterdijk lays out the elements of a new critical theory of modernity understood as a critique of political kinetics, shifting the focus of critical theory from production to mobilization and shedding new light on a world facing the growing risk of humanly induced catastrophe.

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1509518479

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Understanding the Digital World

Understanding the Digital World

Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability

Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability

Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems

Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems

Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

Understanding the Digital World

Understanding the Digital World

You Must Change Your Life

You Must Change Your Life

Infinite Mobilization

Infinite Mobilization

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