Michael Hirsch – författare

Our understanding of information and information dynamics has outgrown classical information theory. The theory does not account for the value or influence of information within the context of a system or network and does not explain how these properties might influence how information flows though and interacts with a system. The invited chapters in this collection present new theories, methods, and applications that address some of these limitations.

Dynamics of Information Systems presents state-of-the-art research explaining the importance of information in the evolution of a distributed or networked system. This book presents techniques for measuring the value or significance of information within the context of a system. Each chapter reveals a unique topic or perspective from experts in this exciting area of research.

These newly developed techniques have numerous applications including: the detection of terrorist networks, the design of highly functioning businesses and computer systems, modeling the distributed sensory and control physiology of animals, quantum entanglement and genome modeling, multi-robotic systems design, as well as industrial and manufacturing safety.

Across the globe, the past several years have seen a tremendous increase in the role of cooperative autonomous systems. The field of cooperative control and optimization has established itself as a part of many different scientific disciplines (military science, biology, communications, etc.). Nevertheless, cooperating systems have continued to be extremely difficult to model, analyze, and solve.

Each year, the International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization (CCO) brings together top researchers from around the world to present new ideas, theories, applications, and advances in the fields of autonomous agents, cooperative systems, control theory, and optimization. The works in this volume are a result of invited papers and selected presentations at the Seventh Annual International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, held in Gainesville, Florida, January 31 – February 2, 2007.

The works presented in this book are suitable for faculty, graduate students, and industrial researchers in the fields of optimization, control theory, electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics.

Cooperative, collaborating autonomous systems are at the forefront of research efforts in numerous disciplines across the applied sciences. There is constant progress in solution techniques for these systems. However, despite this progress, cooperating systems have continued to be extremely difficult to model, analyze, and solve. Theoretical results are very difficult to come by. Each year, the International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization (CCO) brings together top researchers from around the world to present new, cutting-edge, ideas, theories, applications, and advances in the fields of autonomous agents, cooperative systems, control theory, information flow, and optimization. The works in this volume are a result of invited papers and selected presentations at the Eighth Annual International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, held in Gainesville, Florida, January 30 – February 1, 2008.

Wer den krisenhaften Stillstand unserer Gegenwart verstehen will, findet in diesem Buch nicht nur eine bestechende Kritik der Arbeitsgesellschaft, ihrer ideologischen Grundlagen und politischen Funktionslogik, sondern auch den Grundriss einer aufregenden emanzipatorischen Alternative. Das Festhalten an der Hegemonie der Erwerbsarbeit hat eine Ideologie der Beschäftigung und einen Staat der Arbeitsbeschaffung hervorgebracht. Der Autor analysiert diese Festlegung als zentralen Entwicklungsengpass der Gesellschaft. Vor diesem Hintergrund deutet er den Begriff der Arbeit neu und plädiert für eine Sozialordnung, die auf allgemeiner Arbeitszeitverkürzung und einem bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen beruht. Mit dieser Alternative vor Augen kann der Leser sehen, wie sich zahlreiche Dilemmata der Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik, der Familien- und Geschlechterpolitik, der Bildungs-, Wissenschafts- und Kulturpolitik, ja sogar der intellektuellen Arbeit selbst auflösen lassen und einer befreienden Praxis weichen können.