Coordination failure in an industrial society

Coordination of AGVs in an Industrial Environment (Demo Paper)

This demonstration aims to show the decentralized coordination of the navigation system of highly autonomous Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) integrated in a real industrial environment. These vehicles are used for goods delivery tasks between different points of the production system. The navigation part consists on calculating and following the trajectory to reach the goal, which is calculate...

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

Job Stability in Transition from Industrial Society to Service Society

Was Pre-Industrial Society Malthusian

The fundamental assumption of the Malthusian model of pre-industrial society is that reproductive success increased with income. However, the direct evidence for this proposition for any pre-industrial society is surprisingly weak. Indeed most tests of this assumption for pre-industrial England, France and Japan have failed to detect any link between either mortality and real incomes or fertili...

Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations An Experimental Study

Many organizations suffer poor performance because its members fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. In previous research, we have shown that financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. Here we examine the sensitivity of this result to the ability of people to observe others’ choices. Our experiments are set in a corporate environment where subj...