Special Issue on Nonlinear Dynamics

Introduction to the special issue on nonlinear organizational dynamics.

It has been twenty-five years since organization scholars began to investigate how chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics could be used to explain change in human organizations (Loye & Eisler, 1987), and in particular, business corporations (Nonaka, 1988). While many were first introduced to organizational dynamics through chaos theory, organizational scholars quickly fanned out over the theoretic...

Ismm05 Special Issue : on the Dynamics

We investigate the new definition of the ordered dynamics proposed in [4]. We show that this definition leads to several properties. In particular we give necessary and sufficient conditions which indicate when a transformation preserves the dynamics of the regional maxima. We also establish a link between the dynamics, minimum spanning trees, and component trees.

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Paper Special Issue on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications

Image Associative Memory by Recurrent Neural Subnetworks W ladys law S k arbek y3 and Andrzej Cichocki y33 , Members SUMMARY Gray scale images are represented by recurrent neural subnetworks which together with a competition layer create an associative memory. The single recurrent subnetwork N i implements a stochastic nonlinear fractal operator F i , constructed for the given image f i. W e sh...

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences Special Issue on Psychomotor Coordination and Control Introduction to Special Issue on Psychomotor Coordination and Control

When people perform repeated goal-directed movements, consecutive movement durations inevitably vary over trials, in poor as well as in skilled performances. The well-established paradigm of precision-aiming is taken as a methodological framework here. Evidence is provided that movement variability in closed tasks is not a random phenomenon, but rather shows a coherent temporal structure, refer...