New Agoras and Old Institutions: The Case of Human Rights

Existing human rights doctrine and enforcement structures often fail to protect human welfare. The new agora project (Jenlink and Banathy 2002) offers a structure to democratically re-build human rights. To examine the role of new agoras in re-crafting old institutions, I begin by identifying the context of human rights: globalization, diverse identities, and democracy. After analyzing the impact of diversity on democratic structures, I introduce human rights as conceived by Banathy’s (2000) Third Generation. With this in mind, I am prepared to examine the challenges and opportunities for shaping a new operationalization of human rights using the new agora structure.

Conclusion: New Directions Through Extending Deliberative Democracy to Enhance Representation and Accountability

Two way, systemic dialogue enables new ideas to emerge. Rorty (1989) in ‘Contingency, irony and solidarity’ argues that we need to ask questions that acknowledge solidarity with other human beings who suffer. He asks us to consider the consequences for humanity by widening our sense of solidarity or links with others. Considering their pain should be our starting point for drawing ever widening circles of solidarity. The issue is not idealism versus pragmatism as Rorty argues; it is about widening our understanding of the consequences of our thinking and our practice. We need to understand that the environment of which we are part has been shaped by our social, cultural, political and economic decisions and that it will in turn shape our thinking and practice. This is the principle of co-determination that has been developed by systems thinkers such as Maturana and Varela and understood by recent thinkers such as Tim Flannery (2007) and Ulrich Beck (1992, 1997).

卫星太阳能帆板振动的分散应变控制仿真研究

在对某型卫星太阳能帆板动力学特性研究的基础上,采用应变片作传感元件、压电陶瓷作控制元件,将大系统分散控制理论与结构振动理论相结合,进行了太阳能帆板振动的分散应变控制仿真研究。研究结果表明该方法是有效的、可行的,并且易于实现。该项研究为解决航天器柔性外伸结构的振动控制问题提供了一个有效的技术途径,对工程实际具有一定的指导意义和应用价值。     

当代大学生思想困惑的势科学解读

“势成之”的古训与“信息势”、“信息力”等科学概念通过“对称性支配相互作用”这一机制演绎出一个崭新的逻辑体系和理论构架。基于这一理论，我们从信息化时代人类本性的嬗变和势科学的内涵出发，系统地分析了当代大学生面临的五大困惑，提出高校思想政治教育必须遵循势科学机制。     

Competency-Based Model Through It: An Action Research Project

Competency-based management is a strategic approach for Human Resources Management and organizational change. Additionally, in business environment, information technologies competencies are a significant factor to organizational success (Bharadwaj, MIS Q 24(1):169–196, 2006). However the implementation of a model of competency-based management in business environment is difficult and complex (Lawler, J Organ Behav 15(1):3–15, 1993). In this context, Information systems are a suitable tool to manage individual and organizational knowledge (Alavi and Leidner, MIS Q 25(1):107–136, 2001; Bowman, Inf Syst Manag 19(3):32–40, 2002). This paper introduces a dynamic approach to a competency-based model through IT. We validate such approach through an action research project in RTVE, the largest company and reference public corporation of radio and television in Spain. The action research process in this organization is presented, and the findings highlight the potential benefits of the proposed model, and may be used in facilitating organizational change.     

基于动态拓扑有领航者的智能群体群集运动控制

对具有二次积分动态的智能群体跟随领航者实现群集运动编队,提出了一个分散控制方法对智能群体进行分散控制。基于动态时变有领航者的网络拓扑,用图论模型表示智能体之间的相互作用及通信关系,运用推广的Lyapunov理论、微分包含及非平滑分析进行了稳定性分析,并得到所有智能体速度方向收敛到同一方向并与领航者保持一致;所有智能体速度大小收敛并与领航者相同;互连的智能体之间没有碰撞发生;所有智能体的人工势场函数被最小化等重要结论。给出了一个仿真实例,验证了该方法的有效性。     

Towards an Holistic Framework for Environmental Change: The Role of Normative Behaviour and Informal Networking to Enhance Sustainable Business Practices

The term ‘Sustainable Development’ is brandished by modern businesses as a marketing ploy used to suggest evidence of ethical conduct, innovative thinking and moral superiority. However, when analysing an organisations’ adoption of sustainable practices, it is often clear—within the UK—that there are few activities that have been undertaken as an ethical stance instead of legal obligation (McCormick in Environmental politics and policy in industrialized countries, MIT, London, 2002). Our hypothesis is that most methodologies and practices for environmental management do not adopt a holistic perspective, causing significant problems in implementation from inadequate structures and communication channels (Espinosa et al. in Eur J Oper Res, 187:636–651, 2008). In particular we consider that most organisations are currently stifled with management hierarchies that prevent informal/social networking, which may be one of the most powerful natural forms for self-organisation. It is proposed that sustainable development requires more efficient communication channels that foster self-organisation and self-regulation as a method for more productive change processes. In this paper, we explain the reasons why meta-systemic principles of self-organisation and distributed network management offer clear criteria to design an environmental management system that operates on the basis of self-controlled individuals and communities.     

X-Cell50直升机非线性控制系统仿真研究

基于非线性分散控制理论,设计了X-cell50微型直升机垂直飞行的姿态稳定非线性控制系统。该控制系统的设计不依赖对象精确数学模型,控制器结构简单易于实现,所包含的积分环节补偿了系统内部的各种未知因素以及外部扰动。仿真结果与变结构滑模控制相比,不仅避免了滑模控制存在的输出稳态误差和控制信号的抖振现象,而且当直升机存在外部干扰和内部参数变化时对其姿态稳定性能的控制具有很强的鲁棒性。     

社会治理视角下的和谐社会形成机制及策略

针对当前我国和谐社会建设过程中面临的社会矛盾普遍、群体性事件频发、深化改革呼声四起等现象，从社会治理三种机制的互动及政治体制环境出发，分析指出国家治理和政府管理中的软法治、市场机制不完善、网络治理机制的弱化以及政治体制的不完善是这些不和谐现象产生的主要原因.在概括和谐社会基本形式和本质的基础上，分析了如何通过网络、层级和市场三种社会治理机制的良性互动构造社会稳定秩序的机制，以及通过政治体制改革为三种机制的互动和建设和谐社会提供良好的环境，并借鉴和谐管理理论探讨了建设和谐社会的任务和策略.     

复杂适应性系统的仿真与研究--基于CAS理论的交通模拟

为更好地研究交通系统，以CAS理论为指导思想，利用SWARM平台建立了基于多主体离散的动态交通模拟系统。使用自底向上的建模方法进行模拟：将车辆及信号灯作为具有适应性的主体．利用元胞自动机模拟动态交通流；同时将激励学习方法与遗传算法相结合，对信号灯周期进行自适应优化。通过主体不断的“学习”，交通系统在宏观方面涌现出一定的动态特征和规律。进而，我们比较了完全自组织控制模式以及加入预警机制两种情况下各宏观量的变化情况。从实验结果可知，预警机制可以给车辆宏观方面的指导，从而提高车辆通行能力，减少交通拥塞。     

CRPD反馈下的广义分散控制系统固定模

本文讨论了CRPD反馈下广义分散控制系统的有穷固定模和分散正常控制系统的有穷固定模，脉冲固定模和分散正常化问题，得到了若干有意义的判据和结论，推广和充实了广义分散控制系统固定模理论。     

Decentralized robust stabilization of discrete-time fuzzy large-scale systems with parametric uncertainties: a LMI method

1. INTRODUCTION Large-scale dynamic system theory has been intensi- vely studied during the past decade[1～3], but for fuzzy large-scale systems, namely large-scale systems comp- osed of a series of fuzzy subsystems, has been seldom done in literature. In Ref.[4], decentralized stabiliz- ation problem of fuzzy large-scale systems composed of a series of fuzzy subsystems was considered. Sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability of the fuzzy large-scale system and design methods of dec…     

基于LMI的连续时间模糊大系统的分散镇定

讨论了连续时间模糊大系统的分散镇定问题。整个模糊大系统由m个相互关联的T-S子模糊系统组成。基于李亚普诺夫稳定性理论及大系统分散控制理论,将单个模糊系统的稳定性条件推广到关联模糊大系统的情形,给出了保证该模糊大系统闭环渐近稳定的分散化并行分布补偿(decentralizedparalleldistributedcompensation,DPDC)控制器的设计方法。这些分散控制器的存在条件均以LMI的形式出现,因此可通过Matlab的LMI工具箱有效地对其进行求解。仿真例子说明了所提方法的有效性。     

真镇定广义系统分散正常动态补偿器的设计

讨论了前馈广义分散控制系统分散正常动态补偿器的设计问题,给出了一个使广义闭环系统真稳定的分散正常动态补偿器的一致设计方法．     

Enabling Political Legitimacy and Conceptual Integration for Climate Change Adaptation Research within an Agricultural Bureaucracy: a Systemic Inquiry

The value of using systems approaches, for situations framed as ‘super wicked’, is examined from the perspective of research managers and stakeholders in a state-based climate change adaptation (CCA) program (CliChAP). Polycentric drivers influencing the development of CCA research pre-2010 in Victoria, Australia are reflected on, using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to generate a boundary critique of CCA research as a human activity system. We experienced the complexity of purpose with research practices pulling in different directions, reflected on the appropriateness of agricultural bureaucracies’ historical new public management (NPM) practices, and focused on realigning management theory with emerging demands for adaptation research skills and capability. Our analysis conceptualised CliChAP as a subsystem, generating novelty in a wider system, concerned with socio-ecological co-evolution. Constraining/enabling conditions at the time dealing with political legitimacy and conceptual integration were observed as potential catalysts for innovation in research management towards better handling of uncertainty as a social process using systemic thinking in practice (StiP).

     

Supply chain performance for deteriorating items with cooperative advertising

To study the effect of cooperative advertising on the supply chain of deteriorating items, this paper establishes a Stackelberg game model for a two-echelon deteriorating items supply chain composed of one manufacturer and one retailer under a given support program with an exogenous participation rate. The manufacturer as the leader determines the wholesale price and production rate, and the retailer as the follower determines the retail price and advertising strategies. The strategies of the players under the decentralized scenario and the centralized scenario are respectively characterized. Numerical simulations and sensitivity analysis are conducted to gain some managerial insights. It is shown that the pricing, advertising and production strategies are negatively correlated to deteriorating coefficient, and both the profit and the channel efficiency decrease with deteriorating coefficient; The interaction between price, advertising investment and production rate results in a higher retail price of the centralized channel compared to that of the decentralized channel; Implementing the cooperative advertising program does improve the performance of the supply chain in some cases and the participation rate roughly at 0.5 is most preferable, but it is also possible to distort incentive and damage the channel performance when the participation rate reaches a relatively high level.     

Non-fragile guaranteed cost control for uncertain neutral large-scale interconnected systems

This paper focuses on the problem of non-fragile decentralized guaranteed cost control for uncertain neutral large-scale interconnected systems with time-varying delays in state, control input and interconnections. A novel scheme, viewing the interconnections with time-varying delays as effective information but not disturbances, is developed. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, using various techniques of decomposing and magnifying matrices, a design method of the non-fragile decentralized guaranteed cost controller for unperturbed neutral large-scale interconnected systems is proposed and the guaranteed cost is presented. The further results are derived for the uncertain case from the criterion of unperturbed neutral large-scale interconnected systems. Finally, an illustrative example shows that the results are significantly better than the existing results in the literatures.     

人机自然交互支持的3D虚拟教具设计

现有学习软件或虚拟教具存在交互方式不自然、抽象性差、不智能的缺点,应用基于自然的人机交互技术,以物理教学中的平抛运动教具作为实例,设计实现一种3D虚拟教具用以模拟教学过程中的真实教具。这种虚拟教具主要采用手势识别技术实现人和计算机的自然地交互,同时采用虚拟现实技术构建教具实体。应用人机自然交互技术支持的3D虚拟教具,具有交互方式自然、空间感强和抽象表现力强的特点,体现了和谐自然地人机交互方式在教育中的广泛应用前景。     

基于博弈论的闭环双渠道回收供应链决策研究

基于当前包装回收难以及资源损耗大的问题,研究在制造商、销售商和第三方回收商构建的闭环双渠道回收供应链中,基于供应链参与主体博弈权力的差异,构建制造商主导、销售商主导、第三方回收商主导的3类Stackelberg博弈及集中决策博弈模型,给出并比较分析4种模型的最优解.研究表明:与集中决策相比,分散决策收益非帕累托最优,利...     

决策权威对分散式供应链运作效益的影响

针对由一个供应商和两个零售商组成的分散式供应链，在确定型市场、供应商与零售商具有关于零售商成本结构完全信息的情况下，利用博弈论方法，研究了零售商定货决策权威对分散式供应链运作效益的影响。证明了零售商打破决策权威均衡，由某个零售商获得定货决策优先权，有利于供应链整体运作效益的提高；而且，除两个零售商的运作成本差异不太大也不太小且由高成本零售商获得定货决策优先权外，由某个零售商获得定货决策优先权能提高供应商与获得定货决策优先权的零售商的运作效益。