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Resilience Management for a Sustainable Aging Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Resilience Management for a Sustainable Aging Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book utilizes big data to undertake a cluster analysis of medical accidents. Highlighting shared worldwide accident patterns, it represents a first step toward reducing the incidence of accidents through kaizen innovation driven by information and communications technology. This initiative comes against a background where medical accidents are currently the third largest cause of death after heart attack and cancer, making accident prevention an urgent concern. With the objective of preventing these accidents, which negatively impact numerous different stakeholders, and based on interdisciplinary research, the book examines (1) the application of data mining to identify shared accident patterns; (2) proposals for system improvement and organizational innovation aimed at risk and resilience in crisis management; and (3) the use of a global platform to achieve sustainability in the Internet of Medicine (IoM).

Elements and Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 711

Elements and Relations

This book develops the core proposition that systems theory is an attempt to construct an “exact and scientific metaphysics,” a system of general ideas central to science that can be expressed mathematically. Collectively, these ideas would constitute a nonreductionist “theory of everything” unlike what is being sought in physics. Inherently transdisciplinary, systems theory offers ideas and methods that are relevant to all of the sciences and also to professional fields such as systems engineering, public policy, business, and social work. To demonstrate the generality and importance of the systems project, the book structures its content in three parts: Essay, Notes, and Commentary...

The Law and Practice on Disaster Issues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

The Law and Practice on Disaster Issues

The Law and Practice on Disaster Issues is the first and major publication in Nigeria to present legal materials from diverse fields of Law in a single value on disaster issues. The contributors are from universities in Nigeria, the UK and South Africa. The book contains fourteen chapters covering areas such as Disaster and International Law and law in Nigeria; Rights of Children in Disaster Management; Protecting Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights; Dealing with Corporate Failures in Times of Economic Crisis; Disability and Disaster Management; The Tort of Cattle Trespass in Nigeria; Averting a Looming Disaster; and Resettlement in Disaster Affected Areas.

Unsafety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Unsafety

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore translational systems approaches toward resilient management and policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan...

Supply Chain Risk and Disruption Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Supply Chain Risk and Disruption Management

In this book, a risk management approach starts off by discussing important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives during VUCA times. It explores the essence and principles relating to managing these risks and provides the framework and multi-goal model groups for managing such unknown-unknown risks and subsequent disruptions at a global scale. The book explores and presents the latest developments across different emerging topics in supply chain risk and disruption management. These include (i) an overview of supply chain risk, and disruption management tools, techniques, and approaches, (ii) a review on uncertainty modeling for decentralized supp...

Flexible Work Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Flexible Work Organizations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments. The book provides examples of how this can be achieved by means of various organizational change initiatives, leadership strategies, re-engineering, innovation in products and processes, the use of information and communication technology, reshaping learning orientations, and more. As these topics are supported by research and case studies situated in different sectors and countries across Asia, the book will provide a useful resource for a broad readership including: management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.

Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 754

Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability, ARTIIS 2021, held in La Libertad, Ecuador, in November 2021. The 53 full papers and 2 short contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The volume covers a variety of topics, such as computer systems organization, software engineering, information storage and retrieval, computing methodologies, artificial intelligence, and others. The papers are logically organized in the following thematic blocks: ​Computing Solutions; Data Intelligence; Ethics, Security, and Privacy; Sustainability.

Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 581

Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-07-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book addresses the complex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 555

Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the Information Age and cybernetics, and lay out the proposition that notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems theory. Subsequent chapters introduce a cybersemiotic viewpoint on the capacity of arts and other practices for knowing. This suggests pathways for developing Practice as Rese...

Managing Flexibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Managing Flexibility

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited book provides a conceptual framework of managing flexibility in the areas of people, process, technology and business supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities in business. The book is organized into following five parts: (i) Managing Flexibility; (ii) People Flexibility; (iii) Process Flexibility; (iv) Flexibility in Technology and Innovation Management; and (v) Business Flexibility. Managing flexibility at the level of people, process, technology and business encompasses the requirements of both choice and speed. The need for managing flexibility is growing to cope with the developments and challenges in the global business environment. This ca...