Contemporary food systems face several paradoxes regarding equity and sustainability. Considering production—an issue that simultaneously affects both the supply (production) demand (consumption) sides—several cities have begun to implement new strategies, called Urban Food Policies. These approaches aim address various challenges presented by system failures, while also involving existing netw...

In this article, we explore how non-strategy tools – which call ‘occupational’ because they emerge from actors’ daily work allow managers to strategize. Specifically, focus on the crafting process of such tools, or what strategy tooling process. We take an organizational bricolage perspective identify resources that practitioners draw upon in tool and types dialogues engage in. Empirically, our...

Abstract Collective decision making is important for maximizing total benefits while preserving equality among individuals in the competitive multi-armed bandit (CMAB) problem, wherein multiple players try to gain higher rewards from slot machines. The CMAB problem represents an essential aspect of applications such as resource management social infrastructure. In a previous study, we theoretic...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

In this paper, a control strategy is proposed for control of ankle movement on animals using intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS). The proposed method is based on fuzzy logic control. Fuzzy logic control is a methodology of intelligent control that mimics human decision-making process. This type of control method can be very useful for the complex uncertain systems that their mathematical model ...

After extreme events such as floods, thunderstorms, blizzards and hurricanes there will be devastating effects in the distribution networks which may cause a partial or complete blackout. Then, the major concern for the system operators is to restore the maximum critical loads as soon as possible by available generation units.  In order to solve this problem, this paper provides a restoration s...

Self-adaptive software systems make decisions at run time that seek to change their behavior in response to faults, changing environments and attacks. Therefore, having an appropriate decision making approach to find an adaptation strategy is critical to successful self-adaptation. Ideally, when an adaptation is triggered, one would like to have a decision making approach that is both quick and...