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The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with
disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the
implosion of financial markets and economies around the globe. This
book is for business and organizational leaders who want and need
to think through how best to deal with increasing turbulence, and
with the complexity and uncertainty that come with it. The authors
explain in clear language how future orientation and, specifically,
modern scenario techniques help to address these conditions. They
draw on examples from a wide variety of international settings and
circumstances including large corporations, inter-governmental
organizations, small firms and municipalities. Readers will be
inspired to try out scenario approaches themselves to better
address the turbulence that affects them and others with whom they
work, live and do business. This second edition extends the use of
scenarios planning and methods to tackle the risk and uncertainty
of financial markets and the potentially massive impacts on
businesses of all kinds, providing powerful tools to give far
thinking executives an advantage in these turbulent times.
Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation
have engaged musicians, music scholars, and computer scientists
since the early days of computing. Music generation research has
generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods
that model style through explicitly formalized rules, and data
mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical
models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate
the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation
research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting
recurring research issues such as training data, music
representation, candidate generation, and evaluation. The
contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating
music, including melody, chord sequences, ornamentation, and
dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Mathematics and Music.
The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with
disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the
implosion of financial markets and economies around the globe. This
book is for business and organizational leaders who want and need
to think through how best to deal with increasing turbulence, and
with the complexity and uncertainty that come with it. The authors
explain in clear language how future orientation and, specifically,
modern scenario techniques help to address these conditions. They
draw on examples from a wide variety of international settings and
circumstances including large corporations, inter-governmental
organizations, small firms and municipalities. Readers will be
inspired to try out scenario approaches themselves to better
address the turbulence that affects them and others with whom they
work, live and do business. This second edition extends the use of
scenarios planning and methods to tackle the risk and uncertainty
of financial markets and the potentially massive impacts on
businesses of all kinds, providing powerful tools to give far
thinking executives an advantage in these turbulent times.
This book is dedicated to study the inverse problem of ordinary
differential equations, that is it focuses in finding all ordinary
differential equations that satisfy a given set of properties. The
Nambu bracket is the central tool in developing this approach. The
authors start characterizing the ordinary differential equations in
R^N which have a given set of partial integrals or first integrals.
The results obtained are applied first to planar polynomial
differential systems with a given set of such integrals, second to
solve the 16th Hilbert problem restricted to generic algebraic
limit cycles, third for solving the inverse problem for constrained
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanical systems, fourth for studying
the integrability of a constrained rigid body. Finally the authors
conclude with an analysis on nonholonomic mechanics, a
generalization of the Hamiltonian principle, and the statement an
solution of the inverse problem in vakonomic mechanics.
This book is dedicated to study the inverse problem of ordinary
differential equations, that is it focuses in finding all ordinary
differential equations that satisfy a given set of properties. The
Nambu bracket is the central tool in developing this approach. The
authors start characterizing the ordinary differential equations in
R^N which have a given set of partial integrals or first integrals.
The results obtained are applied first to planar polynomial
differential systems with a given set of such integrals, second to
solve the 16th Hilbert problem restricted to generic algebraic
limit cycles, third for solving the inverse problem for constrained
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanical systems, fourth for studying
the integrability of a constrained rigid body. Finally the authors
conclude with an analysis on nonholonomic mechanics, a
generalization of the Hamiltonian principle, and the statement an
solution of the inverse problem in vakonomic mechanics.
Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation
have engaged musicians, music scholars, and computer scientists
since the early days of computing. Music generation research has
generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods
that model style through explicitly formalized rules, and data
mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical
models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate
the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation
research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting
recurring research issues such as training data, music
representation, candidate generation, and evaluation. The
contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating
music, including melody, chord sequences, ornamentation, and
dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Mathematics and Music.
Traditional strategy assumes stability and predictability. Today's
world is better characterised by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty
and ambiguity - conditions that contribute disruptive changes and
trigger the search for new ways of coping. This book aims to become
the premier guide on how to do scenario planning to support
strategy and public policy. Co-authored by three experts in the
field, the book presents The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach
(OSPA). The approach is both intellectually rigorous and practical.
Methodological choices and theoretical aspects in practice are
detailed in reference to the relevant literatures and grounded in 6
case studies the authors have been involved with. The book makes
several contributions to the field, centred on how learning with
scenario planning is supported by re-framing and re-perception; how
this iterative process can be embedded in corporate or government
settings, and how it helps those that it supports to do well in
today's world. The book is written in an accessible style and will
be a useful introductory text as well as a useful guide for the
more experienced scenario planning practitioner and scholar.
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