The right pricing of products is one of the most important issues concerning the development of companies’ financial performance. Prices should be low enough to attract customers and at the same time high enough to cover all the emerged costs and expected profits. This research illustrates how self-organizing maps (SOM) can be used for pricing purposes. We show how changes in a company’s pricin...

Organizational justice researchers have demonstrated that employees are more committed to organizations they believe treat them fairly. Drawing on self-verification theory, five studies showed that the positive relationship between procedural justice and commitment was eliminated among those with low self-esteem. Moreover, results of one study showed that this effect occurred only when self-ver...

A variety of investigators in recent years have proposed models of psychological systems based on the concepts of chaos, nonlinear dynamics, and self-organization. Unfortunately, psychologists in general have little understanding of these important ideas. These terms are defined, and their relationships are discussed. The value of applying these concepts to psychological systems is demonstrated...

Overlay networks are an important kind of P2P infrastructures. The range of applications and requirements is broad. Consequently, our research objective are overlay networks which organize and adapt themselves at runtime. This article describes the current state of our project and gives an overview of the steps envisioned. We briefly show the necessity for self-organization in overlay networks....

Variability plays an important role in the self-organized interaction between vegetation and its environment, yet the principles that characterize the role of the variability in these interactions remain elusive. To address this problem, we study the dependence between a number of variables measured at flux towers by quantifying the information flow between the different variables along with th...

The interactive game theoretical approach to tactics and behavioral self-organization is developed. Though it uses the interactive game theoretical formalization of dialogues as psycholinguistic phenomena, the crucial role is played by the essentially new concept of a tactical game. Applications to the perception processes and related subjects (memory, recollection, image understanding, imagina...

In an effort to better guide research into self-configuring wireless sensor networks, we discuss a technical definition of the term self-organization. We define a selforganizing system as one where a collection of units coordinate with each other to form a system that adapts to achieve a goal more efficiently. We then lay out some conditions that must hold for a system to meet this definition a...

The temporal clustering of swarm activity di ers signi cantly from characteristics of aftershock sequences accompanying mainshocks. This is often assumed to be caused by crustal structure complexities and uid migration. However, the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood, especially, the processes and conditions which lead to the apparent di erences between the swarm patterns and typi...

• Neural activity self-regulates to prevent neural circuits from becoming hyperor hypoactive by means of homeostatic processes [9]. • Optimal information processing in complex systems is attained at a critical point, near a transition between an ordered and an unordered regime of dynamics [5, 3, 8, 6]. • Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) [1, 2] has been proposed as a mechanism for neural systems...