Robustness versus resilience of systems is first defined. The definition is applied to the material and cultural adaptive system of the Netsilik Inuit. Three structural conflicts and their resolution through cultural practices are delineated. The importance of system monitoring is discussed, especially with regard to the cultural system.

This paper proposes a new approach to analyze and design distributed robust consensus control protocols for general linear leaderless multi-agent systems (MASs) in presence of relative-state constraints or uncertainties. First, we show that the MAS robust consensus under relative-state constraints or uncertainties is equivalent to the robust stability under state constraints or uncertainties of...

Virtual reality technology has been applied to the protection of cultural heritage for about 20 years. However, methods or systems of cultural heritage reported in previous studies are still unable to represent large-scale cultural heritage sites such as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Struve Geodetic Arc and the boundaries of the Roman Empire. We aimed at constructing a large-scale cultu...

this paper presents a new strategy based on multi-stage fuzzy (msf) pid controller based on artificial bee colony (abc) for damping power system stabilizer (pss) in multi-machine environment. the recent studies in artificial intelligence demonstrated that the abc optimization is strong intelligent method in complicated stability problems. also, finding the parameters of pid controller in power ...

Dialectical interplay between various world views and visions embedded in a socio-cultural system is essential for continual and sustained innovation by such a system. The view that a system must necessarily operate on the basis of a single commonly shared vision is too strong a requirement for systems to sustain innovation. Such a view is based on an analytic conception of socio-cultural syste...