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This cutting-edge Handbook takes stock of a diverse set of
theoretical and methodological perspectives that address
creativity, innovation, and the ways in which they intersect.
Considering the development of the field, the Handbook examines
current trends to chart a path forward for promising future
research. Leading international contributors showcase some of the
most advanced and interesting work in the creativity and innovation
field, providing a platform for idea exchange and
cross-fertilization. Reviewing the foundations for conducting
rigorous creativity research, chapters elaborate on theoretical
models that explain both individual and team creativity and
innovation, and discuss the relationship between creativity and
standardization. The Handbook also analyzes the role of social
influences in the processes of creativity and innovation, as well
as how to make sense of and study creativity and innovation. In
doing so, the Handbook highlights both quantitative and qualitative
research methods for conducting creativity-innovation research.
Presenting an expert analysis of research on creativity and
innovation, this Handbook will be a vital reference point for
scholars and students in these fields, in addition to the areas of
organizational innovation and organizational behavior. It will also
be useful for practicing managers interested in understanding
creativity and innovation.
This cutting-edge Handbook takes stock of a diverse set of
theoretical and methodological perspectives that address
creativity, innovation, and the ways in which they intersect.
Considering the development of the field, the Handbook examines
current trends to chart a path forward for promising future
research. Leading international contributors showcase some of the
most advanced and interesting work in the creativity and innovation
field, providing a platform for idea exchange and
cross-fertilization. Reviewing the foundations for conducting
rigorous creativity research, chapters elaborate on theoretical
models that explain both individual and team creativity and
innovation, and discuss the relationship between creativity and
standardization. The Handbook also analyzes the role of social
influences in the processes of creativity and innovation, as well
as how to make sense of and study creativity and innovation. In
doing so, the Handbook highlights both quantitative and qualitative
research methods for conducting creativity-innovation research.
Presenting an expert analysis of research on creativity and
innovation, this Handbook will be a vital reference point for
scholars and students in these fields, in addition to the areas of
organizational innovation and organizational behavior. It will also
be useful for practicing managers interested in understanding
creativity and innovation.
This book presents a series of innovative technologies and research
results on adaptive control of dynamic systems with quantization,
uncertainty, and nonlinearity, including the theoretical success
and practical development such as the approaches for stability
analysis, the compensation of quantization, the treatment of
subsystem interactions, and the improvement of system tracking and
transient performance. Novel solutions by adopting backstepping
design tools to a number of hotspots and challenging problems in
the area of adaptive control are provided. In the first three
chapters, the general design procedures and stability analysis of
backstepping controllers and the basic descriptions and properties
of quantizers are introduced as preliminary knowledge for this
book. In the remainder of this book, adaptive control schemes are
introduced to compensate for the effects of input quantization,
state quantization, both input and state/output quantization for
uncertain nonlinear systems and are applied to helicopter systems
and DC Microgrid. Discussion remarks are provided in each chapter
highlighting new approaches and contributions to emphasize the
novelty of the presented design and analysis methods. Simulation
results are also given in each chapter to show the effectiveness of
these methods. This book is helpful to learn and understand the
fundamental backstepping schemes for state feedback control and
output feedback control. It can be used as a reference book or a
textbook on adaptive quantized control for students with some
background in feedback control systems. Researchers, graduate
students, and engineers in the fields of control, information, and
communication, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering,
computer science, and others will benefit from this book.
In practice, actuators often undergo failures and various factors
influence its effectiveness. Also due to the increasing complexity
of large-scale systems, subsystems are often interconnected,
whereas the interactions between any two subsystems are difficult
to deal with. This book details a series of new methodologies of
designing and analyzing adaptive backstepping control systems
involving treatment on actuator failures, subsystem interactions
and nonsmooth nonlinearities. Moreover, it discusses some
interesting open issues in adaptive failure accommodation,
decentralized adaptive control and distributed adaptive coordinated
control.
This volume is a comprehensive and cutting-edge reference book
reflecting current knowledge in the rapidly growing area of
organizational creativity. The contributors to this volume are all
leading researchers in the field of organizational creativity. This
volume: provides a historical review of organizational creativity
theory and research presents critical reviews and summaries of
research on micro, meso, and macro topics (e.g., leadership,
feedback, goals and role expectations, groups and teams, social
networks, climate and culture, deep structures, sense-making
processes, and creativity and organizational change) concerning
organizational creativity demonstrates contributions of creativity
to individual work outcomes and organizational success discusses
emerging areas and highlights promising future research trends.
Professors and graduate students in management and psychology will
find this volume most beneficial. Professors and graduate students
in marketing, sociology, and education also may find this book
useful and relevant. Thoughtful managers and executives,
professionals and knowledge workers, and aspiring managers and MBA
students also would find this book beneficial in sharpening their
thinking, and helping them to identify the right tools for managing
creativity.
In practice, actuators often undergo failures and various factors
influence its effectiveness. Also due to the increasing complexity
of large-scale systems, subsystems are often interconnected,
whereas the interactions between any two subsystems are difficult
to deal with. This book details a series of new methodologies of
designing and analyzing adaptive backstepping control systems
involving treatment on actuator failures, subsystem interactions
and nonsmooth nonlinearities. Moreover, it discusses some
interesting open issues in adaptive failure accommodation,
decentralized adaptive control and distributed adaptive coordinated
control.
This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early
childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the
People's Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao,
Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values,
Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political,
economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current
policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global
concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality,
and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood
education. This book is the first English-language research-based
review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it
in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the
increased recognition of the importance of early childhood
education for human capital development globally, and the
international interest in understanding early education in Chinese
societies.iv>
This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early
childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the
People's Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao,
Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values,
Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political,
economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current
policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global
concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality,
and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood
education. This book is the first English-language research-based
review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it
in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the
increased recognition of the importance of early childhood
education for human capital development globally, and the
international interest in understanding early education in Chinese
societies.iv>
This book presents new methodologies for the design and analysis of
adaptive control systems based on the backstepping approach. Our
emphasis is on - namic uncertain systems with nonsmooth
nonlinearities,such as backlash,de- zone, hysteresis and
saturation, or time-varying parameters, or interactions. The
backstepping approach, a recursive Lyapunov-based scheme, was p-
posed in the beginning of 1990s. With this method the construction
of feedback controllawsandLyapunovfunctions
issystematic,followingastep-by-stepal- rithm. Backstepping can be
used to relax the matching condition, which blocked the traditional
Lyapunov-based design. A major advantage of backstepping is that it
has the ?exibility to avoid cancellations of useful nonlinearities
and achieve regulation and tracking properties. The technique was
comprehensively addressed by Krstic, Kanellakopoulos and Kokotovic
in [1]. However, there is still no monograph available to address
problems such as the handling of n- smooth nonlinearities, time
varying parameters and system interactions using this approach.
Nonsmooth nonlinearities such as dead-zone, backlash, hysteresis
and satu- tion are common in industrial control systems, such as
mechanical, hydraulic, biomedical, piezoelectric, and physical
systems. Such nonlinearities are usually
poorlyknownandmayvarywithtime,andthey oftenlimitsystemperformance.
This volume is a comprehensive and cutting-edge reference book
reflecting current knowledge in the rapidly growing area of
organizational creativity. The contributors to this volume are all
leading researchers in the field of organizational creativity. This
volume: provides a historical review of organizational creativity
theory and research presents critical reviews and summaries of
research on micro, meso, and macro topics (e.g., leadership,
feedback, goals and role expectations, groups and teams, social
networks, climate and culture, deep structures, sense-making
processes, and creativity and organizational change) concerning
organizational creativity demonstrates contributions of creativity
to individual work outcomes and organizational success discusses
emerging areas and highlights promising future research trends.
Professors and graduate students in management and psychology will
find this volume most beneficial. Professors and graduate students
in marketing, sociology, and education also may find this book
useful and relevant. Thoughtful managers and executives,
professionals and knowledge workers, and aspiring managers and MBA
students also would find this book beneficial in sharpening their
thinking, and helping them to identify the right tools for managing
creativity.
In order to improve the performance of molecular electronics and
catalysts, it is important to understand the electronic structures
of adsorbed molecules or clusters on surfaces. The work presented
in this book focuses on the characterization of the electronic
properties and their relationship with geometric structures. One
system has been studied is adsorbed phenyl diisocyanide molecules
on a metal surface. On the surface, the molecules form
one-dimensional molecular chain structures which are composed of
alternating diisocyanide molecule and Au adatom in a unit cell. The
formation of chain structures induces novel interfacial electronic
properties. Combined with their considerable length and
tunabilities, the self-assembled molecular diisocyanide structures
may find application as molecular conductors in nanoelectronics.
The other system is size-selected MoxSy clusters deposited on an
ultrathin alumina film. The local work function of the surface
increases with increasing cluster coverage as a result of electron
tunneling from the substrate to the MoxSy clusters. These results
suggest a novel way to modify the electronic structure and
reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts.
In many predictive modeling tasks, one has a fixed set of
observations from which a vast, or even infinite, set of
potentially predictive features can be computed. Of these features,
often only a small number are expected to be useful in a predictive
model. Models which use the entire set of features will almost
certainly overfit on future data sets. The book presents streamwise
feature selection which interleaves the process of generating new
features with that of feature testing. Streamwise feature selection
scales well to large feature sets. The book also describes how to
use streamwise feature seleciton in multivariate regressions. It
includes a review of traditional feature selecitions in a general
framework based on information theory, and compares these methods
with streamwise feature selection on various real and synthetic
data sets. This book is intended to be used by researchers in
machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery.
Research-based investigations of creativity, innovation, and
entrepreneurship have the potential to inform each other and enrich
our knowledge of each of these areas, particularly with regard to
cognitive processes and effective behaviors. Yet, while these
research streams have increasingly received a great deal of
attention, they have developed largely independently of one
another. The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship addresses the critical need to integrate these
three interrelated literatures. The Handbook features contributions
from the leading scholars in these research areas. As a group, the
chapters examine the intersections of these topics to synthesize
contemporary research and provide direction and stimulation for
further interdisciplinary investigations of organizational
creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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