Evolution in city charter making

Intrafirm Competition and Charter Evolution in the Multibusiness Firm

We develop a theoretical framework for a specific form of intrafirm competition, namely the extent of overlap between the charters of two or more units in a single organization. This phenomenon is commonly seen in large organizations, e.g., cases of two business units producing competing products, or two product development groups trying to solve the same technological problem, but the existing...

The Nature of Online Charter Schools: Evolution and Emerging Concerns

Online charter schools are unique among K-12 online learning options for students. They are full-time, public schools that combine online learning with traditional and home schooling practices. They are often chartered by a state agency, supported in full or in part with state funds and most often managed by a private educational management company. Some extol the virtues of these schools as be...

Evolution prospection in decision making

This work concerns the problem of modelling evolving prospective agent systems. Inasmuch a prospective agent [1] looks ahead a number of steps into the future, it is confronted with the problem of having several different possible courses of evolution, and therefore needs to be able to prefer amongst them to decide the best to follow as seen from its present state. First it needs a priori prefe...

Public Opinion on the Third Term City Charter Amendment (October, 2001)

Mobile Music Making with Sonic City

Sonic City is a wearable system in which the urban environment acts as an interface for real-time electronic music making; the user creates music dynamically by walking through a city. The system senses the user’s activities and the surrounding context, and maps this information in real time to the processing of urban sounds that are collected with a microphone. This video shows participants of...