Evolving toward a Bahá’í Economic System

Evolving Toward a Self-Managing Network

Why is network management so difficult? I think the complexity of the individual network elements is a big part of the problem, and a big barrier to fundamental change. Today's routers implement numerous routing protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, and RIP) and data-plane mechanisms (e.g., class-based queuing, RED, and access control lists), with inumerable configurable parameters that hav...

Toward a Community of Evolving Learners

We discuss the co-evolutionary learning method, applied to human learning, as a means toward a mediated, competitively motivated, educational environment on the Internet. This method was developed in our work with machine learners, where we have been examining environmental characteristics that enable successful and effective learning through “self-play” in games. Critical features include the ...

A Design For An Islamic Economic System

Attitudes Toward Economic Inequality

It is now an accepted fact that we experience inequality in various facets of our economic wellbeing. For example, the inequality could consist of wage differentials between younger and older workers, more and less educated workers, white and nonwhite workers, native and immigrant workers, male and female workers, union and nonunion workers, and so on. As a society we may examine disparities in...

Evolving approaches toward science-based forest management

The scale, scope, and complexity of natural resource and environmental issues have dramatically increased, yet the urgency to solve these issues often requires immediate information that spans disciplinary boundaries, synthesizes material from a variety of sources, draws inferences, and identifies levels of confidence. Although science information and knowledge are only one consideration in nat...