Showing papers on "Representation (systemics) published in 1969"

The Concept of Representation

Abstract: Introduction The Problem of Thomas Hobbes Formalistic Views of Representation \"Standing For\": Descriptive Representation \"Standing For\": Symbolic Representation Representing as \"Acting For\": The Analogies The Mandate-Independence Controversy Representing Unattached Interests: Burke Representing People Who Have Interests: Liberalism Political Representation Appendix on Etymology Notes Bibliography Index

A study of subjective evaluation models

Abstract: The research reported explores some questions which arise when staff groups, such as operations research groups, are faced with obtaining a quantitative representation of an individual's or an organization's evaluation scheme. The study is concerned with the ability of professional hospital personnel to develop and use a subjective evaluation model in a reliable manner, the possible forms of such a model, and the extent to which the models used by the professionals reflected some recognizable organizational evaluation scheme.

The floating voter and the liberal view of representation

Abstract: THE surveys of voting behaviour and political opinions made between 1950 and 1962 yielded a fair amount of data about the role of the voter in the British representative system. The significance of these findings (assuming, for the moment, that they were accurate) depends on the extent to which they enhance our understanding of the nature of the representative system and its place in the process of government, an understanding which has itself been influenced by various liberal views about how the political system ought to operate. In this paper we propose, first, to outline some of the main findings; second, to relate them briefly to liberal views about representation; and third, to report some of the findings of a survey which lead us to modify some of the conclusions which seem to follow from earlier work.

Vehicle subsystem monitors

Abstract: A multiple error detection system utilizing light-emitting diodes to form a character representation in response to a given error signal input.

From functional regionalism to functional representation in france: the battle of brittany1

Abstract: IT is the development of economic planning and the realization that this could not be carried out solely by the central government but also required local action that has brought into focus and imparted decisive impetus to the twentieth century trend to expand government intervention. In conjunction with the need to reorganize the administration for its new tasks and the need to reorganize outdated local government structures to enable them to fulfil new functions, the socio-political pressures engendered by economic planning have forced the issue of regionalism-for long the subject of semiantiquarian speculation-into the forefront of public concern. This new regionalism has accorded an increasingly prominent role to two kinds of specialist : the administrator who has acquired a techno-bureaucratic expertise and the representative or, more usually, spokesman of a special interest group. The emergence of each has fortified the development of the other. Where either the administrative or legislative institutions have failed to adapt themselves, they have lost effectiveness and power. The fear excited by the acquisition of some of this power by organised functional interests has led to a reassertion of the traditional role of the administrator, who has been equipped with the means to hold his own and then dominate the organized interests. Where these interests have been able to acquire a quasidemocratic recognition by virtue of their role in effectively representing a community, it has been necessary to weaken and discredit them so that they will be content to accept a subordinate role. They are reduced to functional cogs in the remodeled administrative machine. The thesis advanced here is that it is between these protagonists that much of the familiar struggle between bureaucracy and democracy is currently being conducted. It is in the attempt to concert their activities or to coerce each other that is to be found the staple of much of contemporary politics in industrial society. The issue of functional representation has re-emerged because of the desire of the interest groups to make representations on behalf of these constituents and increasingly to participate in the formulation and implementation of public policy of concern to them. For their part, the

In Search of Basic Symbols

Abstract: This chapter contains sections titled: Foreword, Scientific Information, Communication, Meaning, Partial Participation, The Receiver's Internal Representation of Information, Probabilistic Aspects, Postscript

The groupF4 and its generators

Abstract: The representations ofF4 are discussed and the decompositions of some representations in the reductionsSO26 →F4 →SO9 are tabulated. The decompositions of some inner products ofF4 are also tabulated. A general method of constructing operator bases for representations of larger groups is given. Using this method, operators corresponding to the generators ofF4 acting on the representation (1000) are constructed. This method also generates relations between 6-j symbols and some examples are given.

The computer representation of simply described scenes

Abstract: : The paper describes the computer representation of scenes consisting of a number of simple three-dimensional objects. One method of representing such scenes is a space oriented representation where information about a region of space is accessed by its coordinates. Another approach is to access the information by object, where, by giving the object name, its description and position are returned. As the description of an object is lengthy, it is desirable to group similar objects. Groups of similar objects can be represented in terms of a common part and a number of individual parts. If it is necessary to simulate moving an object then only the individual information need be saved. (Author)