The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...

Perfectionism is one of the personality's features, as one cognitive style matches one type of behavior. The difference between normal perfectionism and morbid perfectionism is not a matter of conceptualization. It is necessary to make this difference in order to establish a series of clinical...

The article gives an account on the progress made in the study and modeling of the adaptive and learning processes and opens new outlooks for future research. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

In this article, the adaptative and learning processes are analysed in point of view of both the biologist and the engineer, using as much as possible the same terms. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

In this article we address some fundamental questions concerning information: We shall introduce the meaning of “information” in a way that is detached from human technological systems and related algorithms and semantics, and that is not based on any mathematical formula. To accomplish this...

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana...

Change management is the process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change. The discipline of change management...

This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the four phase method, a simulation world view derived from the three phase...

The role and importance of interdisciplinarity in finding a solution to the most complex problems in science and research, in the practical activity of any economical and social aspect of our lives, with special interest in education and graduate education, is one of the most frequent academic...