Peter Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization, and several libraries have tried, with varying degrees of success, to adopt the learning organization model. This article explores why organizations consider attempting to become learning organizations, includes an overview of the theory of learning organizations, presents steps to becoming a learning organization, and describes ...

This paper describes research that investigates the structure of human vowel systems through individual learning and self-organization. A population of agents that have to learn to imitate each other has been implemented. The agents can interact with each other through so-called imitation games: structured exchanges of sounds from which they can learn how to improve their repertoire of sounds. ...