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The Ribbon of Love: Fuzzy-Ruled Agents in Artificial Societies [PDF]
The paper brings two motivations to the theoretical explorations of social analysis. The first is to enrich the agent based computational sociology by incorporating the fuzzy set theory in to the computational modeling.
Situngkir, Hokky
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In response to the multifactory collaborative distributed characteristics of building material equipment during the manufacturing process, this paper studies the two‐stage (production–assembly) distributed assembly flexible job shop scheduling problem (DAFJSP) and constructs a corresponding mathematical model. To address this complex NP‐hard problem, a
Shengwen Zhou +5 more
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Filtration Failure: On Selection for Societal Sanity [PDF]
This paper focuses on the question of filtration through the perspective of “too much information”. It concerns Western society within the context of new media and digital culture.
Mróz, Adrian
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Dismantling Lamarckism: why descriptions of socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian are misleading [PDF]
“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com”. Copyright Springer.This paper addresses the widespread tendency to describe socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian. The difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian replication is clarified.
Hodgson, G., Knudsen, T.
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Parts of the Whole: Moderating Competition in the World of Ideas
In both biological and mathematical dynamical systems, competition may be moderated by the presence of a top predator of both competing species. Applying this principle in memetics sheds light on why some strategies are more likely than others to promote
Dorothy Wallace
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The Phylomemetics of Batik [PDF]
The paper reports the analysis of phylomemetic tree onto batik motifs developed uniquely in all corners of living and in the heart of tradition of Indonesian people.
Situngkir, Hokky
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The Memetic Connotations and Evolution of “Pietas” in Roman Ideology, Ethics and Politics [PDF]
This article examines the application of memetics as a valuable and manageable framework for cultural studies. Specifically, it delves into the memes associated with Roman "Pietas" and their impact on the ideological, ethical and political landscape of ...
Zheng Danyang
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Darwinism, probability and complexity : market-based organizational transformation and change explained through the theories of evolution [PDF]
The study of transformation and change is one of the most important areas of social science research. This paper synthesizes and critically reviews the emerging traditions in the study of change dynamics.
Sammut-Bonnici, Tanya, Wensley, Robin
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The article aimed to examine the relationship between Generation Z’s interactions on social networking sites in the context of herd behaviour and behavioural mimicry through central and peripheral content processing pathways.
Stepaniuk Krzysztof +3 more
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On Selfish Memes: culture as complex adaptive system [PDF]
We present the formal definition of meme in the sense of the equivalence between memetics and the theory of cultural evolution. From the formal definition we find that culture can be seen analytically and persuade that memetic gives important role in the
Hokky Situngkir
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