Objects And Systems

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788739436

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The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille’s political economy of “expenditure” and Mauss’s theory of the gift; Reisman’s lonely crowd and the “technological society” of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre’s work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord’s situationist critique of the spectacle.

Author : Richard Thomas Watson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811594182

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Capital, Systems, and Objects by Richard Thomas Watson Pdf

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks—capital, systems, and objects—that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success. Many organizations are currently addressing two important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is a process, a means to achieve a goal. This book introduces a flexible model that can be applied to current and future organizational challenges, including sustainability and digitization, because the fundamentals are constant. This book is designed to serve two purposes for the readers: first, to present three conceptual foundations for designing and operating organizations (capital, systems, and objects in Part I); and second, to provide a reference source for implementing these ideas in an organization (Parts II and III). The Part I of the book, chapters 1 through 7, sets forth the conceptual foundations. The chapters mix concepts and practical examples to give a new way of thinking about the setting in which one may work many days each year. The Part II provides details and associated examples of every one of the thirty-six forms of capital conversion. It also illustrates how the five foundational systems support capital conversion in a variety of ways. Finally, the Part III is about measuring capital and systems. The book will resonate with practitioners and students of strategy, leadership, and organizational design. It is critical reading for leaders, industry experts, and general readers who want to understand how over thousands of years the capital creation system has developed today’s world and will fashion its future.

Author : Ronald J. Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UCSC:32106012193436

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Object-oriented Systems Analysis and Design by Ronald J. Norman Pdf

Evolutionary in approach, this book explores informatino systems development--both analysis and design--using an object-oriented methodology combined with a relational database as part of the implementation.

Author : Pedro José Marron,Stamatis Karnouskos,Daniel Minder,Aníbal Ollero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642169465

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The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects by Pedro José Marron,Stamatis Karnouskos,Daniel Minder,Aníbal Ollero Pdf

There are a number of different system concepts that have gained much relevance in the area of embedded systems over the past couple of years. First, there is the classic concept of embedded systems where the focus is on control systems for physical processes. Secondly, the notion of pervasive computing has evolved, where the vision foresees everyday objects having some form of computation capacity and, in most cases, sensing and communication facilities. Thirdly, the notion of wireless sensor networks has arisen, where small computing devices are able to sense their environment and cooperate in order to achieve a well-defined goal. These three types of quite diverse systems share a lot of commonalities on the one hand and, on the other hand, have some complementary aspects in common that make a combination of these systems into a coherent system vision promising. In particular, the important notions of control, heterogeneity, wireless communication, dynamic and ad-hoc nature and cost are prevalent to various degrees in each of these systems. A future system concept needs to combine the strong points of all three system concepts in at least these functional aspects. It has to provide support for the control of physical processes like today’s embedded systems do, have as good support for device heterogeneity and spontaneity of usage as required by pervasive and ubiquitous computing approaches, and has to be as cost efficient and wirelessly agile as wireless sensor networks are. These new systems consist, therefore, of individual entities or objects that jointly strive to reach a common goal, which will typically be a goal in sensing or control, and are dynamically and loosely federating themselves for cooperation, taking care not to overtax their available resources. This book presents a roadmap to these concepts which are summarized as cooperating objects.

Author : Keith Harman,Alex Koohang
Publisher : Informing Science
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9788392233756

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Learning Objects by Keith Harman,Alex Koohang Pdf

Author : Ralf Hartmut Güting,Markus Schneider
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780120887996

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Moving Objects Databases by Ralf Hartmut Güting,Markus Schneider Pdf

First uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the technology that supports GPS and RFID data analysis.

Author : Wolfgang Emmerich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540417927

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Engineering Distributed Objects by Wolfgang Emmerich Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects, EDO 2000, held in November 2000 in Davis, California, USA. The 15 revised full papers presented together with session surveys were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The book presents topical sections on middleware selection, resource management, architectural reasoning, distributed communication, advanced transactions, and service integration.

Author : Trygve Reenskaug,P. Wold,O. A. Lehne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015037852996

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Working with Objects by Trygve Reenskaug,P. Wold,O. A. Lehne Pdf

The object-oriented methodology OOram is new and different from all others on the market, and has been in use and development in Norway for over 12 years. This book is the authoritative account of the OOram methodology for software analysis, design, development, maintenance, and reuse.

Author : Leon Horsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039414

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The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects by Leon Horsten Pdf

Develops and defends a new metaphysical and logical theory of arbitrary objects that will reinvigorate the philosophy of mathematics.

Author : Elena Giachino,Reiner Hähnle,Frank S. de Boer,Marcello M. Bonsangue
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642406157

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Formal Methods for Components and Objects by Elena Giachino,Reiner Hähnle,Frank S. de Boer,Marcello M. Bonsangue Pdf

This book constitutes revised lectures from the 11th Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Object, FMCO 2012, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2012. The 8 lectures featured in this volume are by world-renowned experts within the area of formal models for objects and components. The book provides a unique combination of ideas on software engineering and formal methods which reflect the expanding body of knowledge on modern software systems.

Author : Mark Ryan,John-Jules Ch. Meyer,Hans-Dieter Ehrich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540259305

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Objects, Agents, and Features by Mark Ryan,John-Jules Ch. Meyer,Hans-Dieter Ehrich Pdf

In recent years, concepts in object-oriented modeling and programming have been extended in several directions, giving rise to new paradigms such as age- orientation and feature-orientation. This volume came out of a Dagstuhl seminar exploring the relationship - tween the original paradigm and the two new ones. Following the success of the seminar, the idea emerged to edit a volume with contributions from parti- pants - including those who were invited but could not come. The participants' reaction was very positive, and so we, the organizers of the seminar, felt - couraged to edit this volume. All submissions were properly refereed, resulting in the present selection of high-quality papers in between the topics of objects, agents and features. The editors got help from a number of additional reviewers, viz. Peter Ahlbrecht, Daniel Amyot, Lynne Blair, Jan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Virginia Dignum, Dimitar Guelev, Benjamin Hirsch, Maik Kollmann, Alice Miller, Stephan Rei?-Marganiec, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, and Gerard Vreeswijk. Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the persons - volvedintherealizationoftheseminarandthisbook:attendees,authors,revi- ers, and, last but not least, the sta? from Schloss Dagstuhl and Springer-Verlag. February 2004 The Editors TableofContents Objects, Agents, and Features: An Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Mark D. Ryan, and Hans-Dieter Ehrich Coordinating Agents in OO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Frank S. de Boer, Cees Pierik, Rogier M. van Eijk, and John-Jules Ch. Meyer On Feature Orientation and on Requirements Encapsulation Using Families of Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Jan Bredereke Detecting Feature Interactions: How Many Components Do We Need?. . . .

Author : Roel J Wieringa,R B Feenstra
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814549332

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Information Systems-correctness And Reusability - Selected Papers Form The Is-core Workshop by Roel J Wieringa,R B Feenstra Pdf

This volume contains papers on formal system specification. The chapters treat algebraic specification, temporal logic specification, default specifications and deontic logic specification. Applications include information systems, distributed systems, and real-time systems. One of the major themes in the book is the motivation to bring formal specification techniques one step further towards realistic applications.

Author : Klaus R. Dittrich,Giovanna Guerrini,Isabella Merlo,Marta Oliva,M. Elena Rodriguez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540446774

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Objects and Databases by Klaus R. Dittrich,Giovanna Guerrini,Isabella Merlo,Marta Oliva,M. Elena Rodriguez Pdf

These post-proceedings contain the revised versions of the papers presented at the \Symposium on Objects and Databases" which was held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, June 13, 2000, in conjunction with the Fourteenth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2000. This event continued the t- dition established the year before in Lisbon (Portugal) with the First Workshop on Object-Oriented Databases. The goal of the symposium was to bring together researchers working in various corners of the eld of objects and databases, to discuss the current state of research in the eld and to critically evaluate existing solutions in terms of their current usage, their successes and limitations, and their potential for new applications. The organizing committee received 21 papers which were reviewed by a p- gram committee of people active in the eld of objects and databases. There were 3 reviews for each paper, and nally the organizing committee selected 9 long papers, 2 short papers, and a demonstration to be presented and discussed at the symposium. The selected papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, including data modeling concepts, persistent object languages, consistency and integrity of persistent data, storage structures, class versioning and schema evolution, query languages, and temporal object-oriented databases. In addition to the regular papers, the symposium included an invited p- sentation, given by Prof. Malcolm Atkinson from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) where he heads the Persistence and Distribution Group.

Author : Robert J. Muller
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1558604375

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Productive Objects by Robert J. Muller Pdf

Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the characteristics of some of the animals and plants that can be found in the forest. Includes a chipmunk, box turtle, fern, bull moose, moth, ermine, and white birch.

Author : Hadley Wickham
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781498759809

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Advanced R by Hadley Wickham Pdf

An Essential Reference for Intermediate and Advanced R Programmers Advanced R presents useful tools and techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems, helping you avoid mistakes and dead ends. With more than ten years of experience programming in R, the author illustrates the elegance, beauty, and flexibility at the heart of R. The book develops the necessary skills to produce quality code that can be used in a variety of circumstances. You will learn: The fundamentals of R, including standard data types and functions Functional programming as a useful framework for solving wide classes of problems The positives and negatives of metaprogramming How to write fast, memory-efficient code This book not only helps current R users become R programmers but also shows existing programmers what’s special about R. Intermediate R programmers can dive deeper into R and learn new strategies for solving diverse problems while programmers from other languages can learn the details of R and understand why R works the way it does.