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Book Synopsis Transforming our Critical Systems by : Gerardus van der Zanden
Download or read book Transforming our Critical Systems written by Gerardus van der Zanden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have entered an era of perverse economic growth, at the expense of social and natural capital. As the world runs further behind on the Sustainable Development Goals, managing and mitigating the looming environmental and social crises in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world will be one of the biggest challenges, but also biggest commercial opportunities of our time. Building on earlier research on systemic change, using the WHAT-HOW-WHY framework, this Element presents actionable insights for the radical systemic reinvention of our 'critical systems' that satisfy human and societal needs, such as nutrition, mobility, infrastructure or health. The authors highlight ten emerging paradigms for future-fit systemic change, discuss how stakeholder mindsets can be developed, and present new skills for leaders and a pathway for companies to become drivers of collaborative transformation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Book Synopsis Transforming our Critical Systems by : Gerardus van der Zanden
Download or read book Transforming our Critical Systems written by Gerardus van der Zanden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have entered an era of perverse economic growth, at the expense of social and natural capital. As the world runs further behind on the Sustainable Development Goals, managing and mitigating the looming environmental and social crises in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world will be one of the biggest challenges, but also biggest commercial opportunities of our time. Building on earlier research on systemic change, using the WHAT-HOW-WHY framework, this Element presents actionable insights for the radical systemic reinvention of our 'critical systems' that satisfy human and societal needs, such as nutrition, mobility, infrastructure or health. The authors highlight ten emerging paradigms for future-fit systemic change, discuss how stakeholder mindsets can be developed, and present new skills for leaders and a pathway for companies to become drivers of collaborative transformation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Book Synopsis Transforming Technology by : Andrew Feenberg
Download or read book Transforming Technology written by Andrew Feenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has shifted to reflect a growing interest in the fields of technology and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment by : Peter M. Curtis
Download or read book Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment written by Peter M. Curtis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant to offer Architects, Property Mangers, Facility Managers, Building Engineers, Information Technology Professionals, Data Center Personnel, Electrical & Mechanical Technicians and students in undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education programs relevant insight into the Mission Critical Environment with an emphasis on business resiliency, data center efficiency, and green power technology. Industry improvements, standards, and techniques have been incorporated into the text and address the latest issues prevalent in the Mission Critical Industry. An emphasis on green technologies and certifications is presented throughout the book. In addition, a description of the United States energy infrastructure's dependency on oil, in relation to energy security in the mission critical industry, is discussed. In conjunction with this, either a new chapter will be created on updated policies and regulations specifically related to the mission critical industry or updates to policies and regulations will be woven into most chapters. The topics addressed throughout this book include safety, fire protection, energy security and data center cooling, along with other common challenges and issues facing industry engineers today.
Book Synopsis Safety-Critical Systems: The Convergence of High Tech and Human Factors by : Felix Redmill
Download or read book Safety-Critical Systems: The Convergence of High Tech and Human Factors written by Felix Redmill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety-critical systems, in the sense of software-based systems used in safety critical applications, are 'high-tech'. They are products of modern technology. Their effective, efficient and safe functioning depends not only on the devel opment of the right technologies but also on the right use of them. The safety of a system may be compromised not only by faults in the system but also by the use in the first place of an unreliable, unsafe, or unproved technology in its development. The key to the development and use of both technologies and systems is the human being. Until recently, the importance of human involvement, other than at the direct operational level, was hardly admitted. But now the unreliability of humans is recognised, as is the potential for latent faults to be introduced into systems at any point in their life cycles, by all who are in volved with them, including designers and strategic decision makers.
Book Synopsis Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems by : Cyrille Artho
Download or read book Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems written by Cyrille Artho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2018, held in Gold Coast, Australia in November 2018. The 10 revised full papers presented together with an abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and verification of Safety-Critical Systems; analysis of timed systems; semantics and analysis methods, and model transformation.
Book Synopsis Architecting Critical Systems by : Holger Giese
Download or read book Architecting Critical Systems written by Holger Giese and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems, ISARCS 2010, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in June 2010.
Book Synopsis Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems by : Stefan Leue
Download or read book Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems written by Stefan Leue and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2007, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2007 - colocated with CAV 2007, the 19th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. The 15 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 invited lectures were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 31 initial submissions. The papers strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications and they are organized in topical sections on control systems, scheduling and time, verification, software, and testing.
Book Synopsis Technology and Assessment of Safety-Critical Systems by : Felix Redmill
Download or read book Technology and Assessment of Safety-Critical Systems written by Felix Redmill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The programme for the Second Safety-critical Systems Symposium was planned to examine the various aspects of technology currently employed in the design of safety-critical systems, as well as to emphasise the importance of safety and risk management in their design and operation. assessment There is an even balance of contributions from academia and industry. Thus, industry is given the opportunity to express its views of the safety-critical domain and at the same time offered a glimpse of the technologies which are currently under development and which, if successful, will be available in the medium-term future. In the field of technology, a subject whose importance is increasingly being recognised is human factors, and there are papers on this from the University of Hertfordshire and Rolls-Royce. Increasingly, PLCs are being employed in safety-critical applications, and this domain is represented by contributions from Nuclear Electric and August Computers. Then there are papers on maintainability, Ada, reverse engineering, social issues, formal methods, and medical systems, all in the context of safety. And, of course, it is not possible to keep the 'new' technologies out of the safety-critical domain: there are papers on neural networks from the University of Exeter and knowledge-based systems from ERA Technology.
Book Synopsis Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems by : Gwen Salaün
Download or read book Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems written by Gwen Salaün and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2011, held in Trento, Italy, in August 2011. The 16 papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. It also strives to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.
Book Synopsis The Future of Work in Diverse Economic Systems by : Daniel Friel
Download or read book The Future of Work in Diverse Economic Systems written by Daniel Friel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element reviews the varieties of capitalism approach (VoC) first developed by Hall and Soskice and subsequent extensions to emerging markets. The author suggests that by reinvigorating existing ideal types and creating new ones through an analysis of its five variables in a variety of countries VoC can be used to evaluate the viability of economic reforms across a wide range of countries. He argues that governments should base changes on lessons from other countries belonging to their ideal type. This Element illustrates the utility of VoC in understanding how reforms will differ across countries by examining how the future of work is likely to differ across nations depending on the degree to which the five institutions explored in this approach promote the standardization of tasks. It analyzes how these institutions shape degrees of standardization in the United States, Germany, and Brazil, offering suggestions for reforms in each of them.
Book Synopsis Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems by : Max Stephenson
Download or read book Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems written by Max Stephenson and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship and high-level diplomatic reports alike, including that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021, have highlighted the negative material and bodily inequities of our globalized industrial food system, one that is fuelled by a hegemonic politics of food access and availability. The effects of industrialized food systems on public health, human rights, food sovereignty, ecological sustainability for land and water, as well as for climate change are increasingly obvious. These ongoing challenges, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have exacerbated existing social, economic, and political inequalities and vulnerabilities and placed them in the spotlight. The crisis in the Ukraine has also underscored how connected global industrialized food systems are to nation state geopolitical interests, international alliances, trade relations, and conflicts. The current industrialized resource-intensive food system has persisted because of a complex set of power relations, despite its continuing and deepening social, ecological, and cultural costs.
Book Synopsis Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification by : Laure Petrucci
Download or read book Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification written by Laure Petrucci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint 22nd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems and the 17th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems, FMICS-AVoCS 2017, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2017. The 14 full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They are organized in the following sections: Automated verification techniques; Testing and scheduling; Formal Methods for mobile and autonomous robots; and Modeling and analysis techniques.
Book Synopsis Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems by : Manuel Núñez
Download or read book Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems written by Manuel Núñez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2015, Oslo, Norway, in June 2015. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They are organized in topical sections: applications; protocols; specification and analysis; verification.
Book Synopsis Critical Race Theory and the American Justice System by : Paul Zwier
Download or read book Critical Race Theory and the American Justice System written by Paul Zwier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a trial lawyer stands before a jury to argue a case about a Black victim killed by a white person, how should the lawyer best argue the case? Critical race theorists (CRTs) are pessimistic that a white jury can set aside its own racism in judging the Black victims’ actions, and are skeptical of a jury’s ability to fairly judge a white actor’s motives. Before the George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery killings, there was strong evidence (The Innocence Project) that the CRTs were right. After all, the prosecutors in the Ahmaud Arbery case were so convinced that a white jury in a Georgia county would not convict white vigilantes, that they initially didn’t even charge the killers with a crime. However, then, back-to-back, in both cases, prosecutors prosecuted, and the jury returned guilty verdicts. They convicted Derrick Chauvin of murder. They convicted Travis and Gregory McMichael and “Roddie” William Bryant of murder. This book examines the how and why of these verdicts and asks whether they hold lessons vital to withstanding CRT challenges to the American justice system.
Book Synopsis Private Equity and the Demise of the Local by : Maryann Feldman
Download or read book Private Equity and the Demise of the Local written by Maryann Feldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism is a powerful engine that requires finance. Private equity is part of the neoliberal transformation of capitalism that has failed the average citizen and unleashed a tsunami of leveraged acquisitions that have destroyed entire sectors of our economy. Private equity has become a powerful force that has moved from restructuring industrial firms to buying up just about any economic activity in local communities that has assets that can be monetized, without any consideration of the impact on the quality of life and well-being of the community. Th a process has been aided and abetted by government policy. The authors of this Element explain the workings of the private equity model and the reasons it has been so profitable. They document the effects of PE on firms and communities by examining a range of activities that once had a local focus. They conclude by offering policy recommendations.
Book Synopsis Aberrant Capitalism by : Hunter Hastings
Download or read book Aberrant Capitalism written by Hunter Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corporation was a timely emergent phenomenon of the capitalist system. Under entrepreneurial ownership with customer value creation goals, corporations introduced new products and services, new capital structures and new management processes capable of improving customer experiences in every facet of their lives. After entrepreneurship, the organizational model transitioned to managerial capitalism, and from there into command-and-control and central planning. Then came further transition into the era of financialization, where shareholder value replaced customer value as the purpose of the corporation. Managers diverted resources to their own enrichment as well as that of shareholders, at the expense of investment in future innovation. Capitalism's reputation has become tarnished and its purpose distorted. This Element ends with the promise of another emergent era, via the corporations of the digital age.
