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Daniels, Anne Elizabeth. "Order in chaos." Thesis, University of East London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542291.
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I have always been fascinated by the marks in nature which arise from growth, fracture and decay, in fact by the overwhelming abundance of nature's complexity as described by Gleich (1990): Untamed, undomesticated, unregulated wildness. Nature paints its scenes without regard for conventional order, for straight lines or Euclidean shapes. Luckily so the human mind seems to take as little pleasure in a straight line as in pure formlessness. The essence of the Earth's beauty lies in disorder, a peculiarly patterned disorder, from the fierce tumult of rushing water to the tangled filigrees of unbridled vegetation. My early academic training was in mathematics. So later in life, when I began to study art, I compared the models for nature constructed by both mathematicians and artists, and became interested in the connections between geometry and art. Section 2 of this report describes my autobiographical context. On my BA and MA studies, I discovered that for most of the twentieth century phenomenological forms of nature were not a topic of artistic investigation, and geometry was being used in art as an abstract symbol of man's triumph over nature, via technology. But I also found that with the development of the electronic computer, scientists had advanced new models, such as chaos theory, to better describe nature's complex, dynamical, nonlinear systems. A new geometry, named fractal geometry, was formalised in the 1980s, which approached nature by finding patterns in its disorder. Traditional Euclidean geometry provides a poor approximation to natural disorder, but fractal geometry produces much more successful approximations. These fractal models of nature are likely to be chaotic but at the edges of the chaos an order can be found. I began to make abstract art using these new mathematical ideas, but not using digital computation or computer graphics. Section 3, on creative practice, follows my development through the five years I spent on the doctorate programme. I entered the course feeling that I had only scratched the surface of my visual enquiry into nature's structures based upon fractal geometry. I spent a year researching fractals in geometry and art in the context of the artists that influenced me, and put forward a proposal to devise a form of abstraction based upon 3
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Boehm, William Hollister. "Order and chaos : articulating support, housing transformation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64503.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (p. 83).
This thesis presents an exploration on the theme of order and chaos, as a formal and social phenomenon, particularly as it relates to housing. The work stems from an attraction to the messy vitality we find in certain environments (such as back alleys), and searches for an understanding of the relationship that exists between the chaos and the underlying order. Chaos is defined and defended, as a crucial component of our lives in social and urbanistic terms. A parallel interest is revealed in a review of particular 20th century art. Modern housing approaches are critiqued in terms of an order/chaos relationship, and compared to non-western and vernacular precedents. A historic mill site is analyzed, considered for its transformational qualities and housing potential. Formal explorations and a design proposal address issues of housing for transformation in the existing mill buildings and in a new support structure. A design methodology, appropriate to the topic, models and records transformation based on individual's interventions.
by William Hollister Boehm.
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Pitman, John. "Order and chaos in the Old Testament." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Bullock, Mercedes. "Translating “Lunokhod”: Textual Order, Chaos and Relevance Theory." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40981.
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This thesis examines the concepts of textual order and chaos, and how Relevance Theory can be used to translate texts that do not adhere to conventional textual practices. Relevance Theory operates on the basis of presumed order in communication. Applying it to disordered communicative acts provides an opportunity and vocabulary to describe how communication can break down, and the consequences this can have for translation. This breakdown of order, which I am terming a ‘chaos principle’, will be examined through the lens of a Russian-language short story called “Lunokhod”, a story in which textual order, as described by Relevance Theory, breaks down.
In this thesis, I first lay out several translation challenges presented by my corpus, discuss each with reference to Relevance Theory, and examine the implications for translation through sample translation segments. This deconstruction section argues that conventional translation methods fail to properly address the challenges of my corpus. Next comes a reconstruction section, in which I develop a theoretical framework for my translation that has roots in Relevance Theory but that frees the translation from the constraints imposed by an ordered view of communication. Finally, I present the translation itself.
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Beckerleg, Susan. "Maintaining order, creating chaos Swahili medicine in Kenya /." Thesis, Online version, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.318523.
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Hasse, Gunther Willy. "Convergence from chaos to order in capital projects using chaos attractors – an explorative study." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73060.
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Successful capital projects contribute to sustain society and accelerate socio-economic development due to its inherent multiplier effect. The linear project management paradigm does not seem to stem either historical or current capital project cost overruns and failures. Accelerative societal change in terms of trends, megatrends, paradigm shifts, Black Swan events, and disruptive technologies require capital projects to be executed in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment that is expected to result in more chaos and failures of capital projects. This research contributes to the non-linear ‘management by chaos’ paradigm and develops and test chaos theories and models for employment in capital projects. The objective of this research is to explore if chaos attractors could cause local convergence (first research question) and overall convergence (second research question) from chaos to order in capital projects and thereby contribute to reduce capital project cost overruns and failures.
Using the grand chaos theory and literature references to chaos attractor metaphors as a starting point, six lower-level chaos theories and variance models were built for fixed-point attractors, fixed-point repellers, limit-cycle attractors, torus attractors, butterfly attractors and strange attractors. One lower level-theory and variance model were built for a landscape that comprised of the six chaos attractors. A randomness-chaos-complexity-order continuum model was derived from literature to represent the context within which dynamic capital project behaviour unfolds.
Assuming a constructivist research paradigm, a two-round qualitative explorative research strategy was employed with the capital project as the unit of analysis. The Nominal Group Technique was employed in the first round of interviews with 12 experienced capital project managers to obtain grounded definitions, an understanding of the randomness-chaos-complexity-order continuum model and the concept of chaos attractors. Voice recordings from interviews were transcribed and content analysis was done using the Atlas.ti software. Five capital project archetypes were identified by respondents. This was followed by a second round of deep individual interviews using semi-structured questions with 14 experienced capital project managers. Content analysis was used to confirm the archetypes and test the transferability and convergence effect from chaos to order of the six chaos metaphors and one landscape of the six chaos metaphors to the capital project domain.
Evidence was found in terms of examples, characteristics, value statements and variance model scoring to suggest that local convergence in capital projects from chaos to order could occur as a result of the six individual chaos attractors. Similarly, that overall project convergence could occur as a result of a specific constellation of these six chaos attractors located across the capital project life cycle. Nine convergence-divergence archetypes were defined by respondents that described the dynamic behaviour of different types of capital projects in the randomness-chaos-complexity-order continuum. It was also found that achieving capital project convergence from chaos towards an ordered project state, using chaos attractors, do not imply project success. However, an ordered project state could aid the minimisation of capital project cost overruns.
“Chaos theory considers the convergence from chaos to order a natural phenomenon in capital projects that is brought about by the following six chaos attractors: fixed-point, repeller, limit-cycle, torus, butterfly and strange”. This exploratory research found evidence to support the existence of this grand theory and its associated mid-range and lower-level theories, but further research is required to validate the generalisation of these findings.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM)
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Maguire, David. "Chaos and Order: Tourism and the Media in Global Crises." Thesis, Maguire, David (2012) Chaos and Order: Tourism and the Media in Global Crises. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/10634/.
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The chronicle of crises is added to regularly as major natural disasters and man-made conflicts hit populations from the wealthy West to the poorest quarters of the world's most remote regions. The resulting disruption generates fear and panic with repercussions that have far-reaching implications for everyday life and the modern systems that support it. Within these crises, tourism is a major casualty and its plight is exacerbated by the vector of media coverage of the event. This thesis studies the crisis relationship between tourism and media when news coverage is at its peak and holiday regions and business operators lose control over their immediate destiny.
The research analyses through four case studies significant disasters that were of such magnitude that their impact was global: the UK‘s foot and mouth disease outbreak of 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States in September 2001, the Bali bombings in 2002 and the SARS contagion of 2003. Each disaster dominated the world‘s media from the outset and had far-reaching implications for global tourism systems. They are assessed within the dual industry context of media and tourism using qualitative analysis methods including ethnographic inquiry, media content analysis and case study analysis. An underpinning supplementary series of four vignettes outlines a contextual range of media and tourism operating activities, starting with a study of "normal" news coverage and ending with an ethnographic study of a newsroom during a developing crisis.
While there has been much study of crisis management in tourism, and many models proposed, this research identifies stages in the assessed crises that conform to the principles of Chaos Theory. That is, when the intensity of a crisis is such that the contextual system of known order is destroyed. By comparing media and tourism actions during the case studies against Chaos Theory principals, a defining theoretical adjunct is provided to the findings.
The research finds that the media is a constant force of stability in the non-linear dynamics of chaos unleashed by the case study disasters. The findings are used to develop a chaos-themed Protocol of Media Response for Tourism from which industry can develop strategies for earlier recovery from crisis, including acting within the chaotic environment to enhance post-crisis recovery prospects.
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Deva, Sagar. "Searching for order in chaos : a pluralist critique of global constitutionalism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21284/.
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It is clear today that the problems faced by the international community are truly ‘global’ in scale and require collective action well beyond the level of the nation-state. As a result of this, many contemporary scholars have turned to the idea of global constitutionalism as a potential panacea to these global issues, seeking to extrapolate the benefits of the constitution into the international system in order to harness globalisations more beneficial qualities while ameliorating its more dangerous traits. This thesis will address these ‘global constitutionalist’ arguments with a particular focus on global pluralism. It will suggest that the ‘mainstream’ global constitutionalist arguments are likely to fail in their mission of attaining the benefits of constitutionalism at the international level for two key reasons. Firstly, the visions of global constitutionalism offered by these global constitutionalists tend to be ‘partial’ in nature and underplay the importance of constitutionalism as a holistic phenomenon comprised of a symbiosis of normative and empirical characteristics, which, if unbound, fail to legitimate and control government in the desired fashion. Secondly, such visions fail to sufficiently account for the specific nature of global legal pluralism, which is driven in part by processes of fragmentation, undermining the potentiality for any form of coherent global constitutionalism which could span the entirety of the international system. Nonetheless, in the face of these hurdles, it will be argued that the international system might still possess certain structural elements that can render a modest form of ‘constitutional pluralism’. Consequently, although critical of more utopian notions of global constitutionalism because of insufficient engagement with the full spectrum nature of ‘constitutionalism’ as well as insufficient engagement with global pluralism, this thesis will suggest that constitutionalism might still have value as a useful tool for evaluating and improving governance in the global sphere.
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Mallett, Anna. "Chaos and order : the environmental thought of John Martin (1789-1854)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670228.
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Clark, Ava Stacey Marion. "Oscillating between chaos and order : self organization in the creative process." Thesis, Connect to online version, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407493851&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=10306&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lee, A. E. "Order and chaos in Juan Goytisolo's fictional works from 1966 to 1982." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384499.
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Johnson, Patrick. "Analysis of 2nd order differential equations : applications to chaos synchronisation and control." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2008. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1295/.
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In this thesis a number of open problems in the theory of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and dynamical systems are considered. The intention being to address current problems in the theory of systems control and synchronisation as well as enhance the understanding of the dynamics of those systems treated herein. More specifically, we address three central problems; the determination of exact analytical solutions of (non)linear (in)homogeneous ODEs of order 1 and 2, the determination of upper/lower bounds on solutions of nonlinear ODEs and finally, the synchronisation of dynamical systems for the purposes of secure communication. With regard to the first of these problems we identify a new solvable class of Riccati equations and show that the solution may be written in closed-form. Following this we show how the Riccati equation solution leads us quite naturally to the identification of a new solvable class of 2nd order linear ODEs, as well as a yet more general class of Riccati equations. In addition, we demonstrate a new alternative method to Lagrange's variation of parameters for the solution of 2nd order linear inhomogeneous ODEs. The advantage of our approach being that a choice of solution methods is offered thereby allowing the solver to pick the simplest option. Furthermore, we solve, by means of variable transforms and identification of the first integral, an example of the Duffing-van der Pol oscillator and an associated ODE that connects the equations of Lienard and Riccati. These fundamental results are subsequently applied to the problem of solving the ODE describing a lengthening pendulum and the matter of bounded controller design for linear time-varying systems. In addressing the second of the above problems we generalise an existing GrOnwall-like integral inequality to yield several new such inequalities. Using one of the new inequalities we show that a certain class of nonlinear ODEs will always have bounded solutions and subsequently demonstrate how one can numerically evaluate the upper limits on the square of the solution of any given ODE in this class. Finally, we apply our results to an academic example and verify our conclusions with numerical simulation. The third and final open problem we consider herein is concerned with the synchronisation of chaotic dynamical systems with the express intention of exploiting that synchronisation for the purposes of secure transmission of information. The particular issue that we concern ourselves with is the matter of limiting the amount of distortion present in the message arriving at the receiver. Since the distortion encountered is primarily a due to the presence of noise and the message itself we meet our ends by employing an observer-based synchronisation technique incorporating a proportional-integral observer. We show how the PI observer used gives us the freedom to reduce message distortion without compromising on synchronisation quality and rate. We verify our results by applying the method to synchronise two parameter-matched Duffing oscillators operating in a chaotic regime. Simulations clearly show the enhanced performance of the proposed method over the more traditional proportional observer-based approach under the same conditions. The structure of thesis is as follows: first of all we describe the motivation behind object of study before going on to give a general introduction to the theory of ODEs and dynamical systems. This lead-in also includes a brief history of the theory of ODEs and dynamical systems, a general overview of the subject (as wholly as is possible without getting into the mathematical detail that is left to the appendices) and concludes with a statement of the scope of the thesis as well as the contributions to knowledge contained herein. We then go on to state and prove our main results and contributions to the solution of those problems detailed above starting with the solution of ODEs.
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Filler, Stephen. "Chaos from order anarchy and anarchism in modern Japanese fiction, 1900-1930 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5num=osu1087570452.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 230 p. Advisor: Richard Torrance, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230).
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Sacks, Kim. "Foules et coercition : flux, ordres et dynamique du chaos." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H327.
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Par l'analyse des pratiques de l'image, artistiques et médiatiques, le texte entend mettre au jour les mécaniques de la société du spectacle, altérées par les révolutions de la technologie de l'information et de la communication. Dans les espaces virtuels, la médiatisation émerge comme la modalité principale de toute forme d'interaction dématérialisée. L'image exerce sa puissance et conditionne les comportements. Pourtant, l'image peut s'opposer au flux dominant du spectacle et offrir un espace d'expression à contre-flux, contestataire et radical. Ce texte examine la consommation des représentations dans cette société du spectacle où la coercition anime la psychologie des foules - nuages fluides de particules individuelles séparées dont les mouvements chaotiques semblent imprévisibles. Cette recherche élabore une typologie des foules repensée au travers de la coercition des images, des médias et du pouvoir de la technologie sur le libre arbitre individuel. En s'appuyant sur des représentations iconiques de la violence et de la mort dans les événements visuels globaux - à l'instar de la photographie sidérante « The Falling Man » - ce texte aborde les tensions entre dispositifs, information et foules en dressant le portrait de l'Homme hypermoderne face aux foules virtuelles. Soumis au flux d'images constant, il semble en quête permanente d'une liberté insaisissable, fruit d'une identité qui peu à peu se dissipe au sein d'une société à la dérive incitant à ne vivre que par l'externalisation dans les technologies : utopie d'un Homme transparent, dépourvu d'intériorité, vivant dans l'espoir d'outrepasser la mort par la projection de soi dans le flux d'informationThrough the analysis of artistic and media-generated imagery, this text seeks to shed light on the mechanisms of the society of the spectacle, altered by the revolutions of information and communication technology. In virtual spaces, mediatization has emerged as the main modality of every dematerialized interaction. Image exercises power and conditions behaviors, but may also act counter to the dominant stream of spectacle thus opening a space for a counter-current both controversial and radical. This text examines how image is consumed in this society of the spectacle, in which coercion drives crowd psychology - fluid clouds of unique separated particles whose chaotic movements appear unpredictable. This research establishes a typology of crowds revised through the coercion of images, media, and the power of technology over individual freewill. By studying iconic images of violence and death in global visual events - as exemplified in The Falling Man, a photograph that stuns the viewer - the text raises issues concerning the seeming tensions between devices, information and crowds, while displaying the portrait of hypermodern Man in his relationship toward virtual crowds. Man, subjected to incessant streams of images, seems to be on a permanent quest for a freedom which eludes him, a consequence of an identity slowly dissipating into the mainstream. This text proposes an analysis of a society running adrift, a society offering nothing but a life of selfdisembodiment into technological devices : utopia of a new transparent Man, deprived of self, living only in the hope of achieving immortality by projecting the self into the information stream
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Geraldi, Joana G. "Reconciling order and chaos in multi-project firms empirical studies on CoPS producers." Göttingen Sierke, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989236862/04.
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Pelham, Abigail. "Conversations about chaos and order : making the world in the Book of Job." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1318/.
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Setting their sights on the splash thrown up by Leviathan in chapters 3 and 41, many interpreters have argued that the conflict between chaos and order, as embodied in combat mythology, is a theme in the Book of Job. Although I agree that issues related to chaos and order are central to the book, the assumption that any discussion of chaos and order must be related to combat mythology does not stand up to scrutiny. Order and chaos, I maintain, are broader terms. I define them as “how the world ought to be,” and “how the world ought not to be,” respectively. Using these broader, and, I think, more accurate definitions, the Book of Job can be read as a long discussion about chaos and order, without requiring that we identify characters as forces embodying chaos or order who fight each other for control of the world, an interpretation which is an over-simplification of what is going on in the book. As “how the world ought/ought not to be,” order and chaos are container terms, capable of being filled in a number of different ways. That is to say, we cannot look at Leviathan (or Tiamat) and extrapolate characteristics of chaos that are applicable across the board. Rather, what constitutes chaos or order will depend on the particular circumstances and point of view of the person doing the labeling. In this thesis, I identify three pairs of concepts around which chaos and order are commonly conceived: singularity/multiplicity, stasis/change, and inside/outside. Taking these pairs one at a time, I examine how the various characters in the Book of Job describe order and chaos. What emerges is not a dictum as to what constitutes order or chaos, but a number of possible visions of how the world ought and ought not to be, none of which is definitive. At the end of the “conversation about chaos and order” that is the Book of Job, both God and Job make strong bids for their right to “make the world,” by deciding how it ought and ought not to be. In his speeches from the whirlwind, God identifies himself as the world’s creator, presenting an ordered world that is vastly different from what Job presumes order to be. Regardless of how Job’s response to God in 42:6 is understood—and it is interpreted in a great number of ways—in the epilogue Job can be seen to make his own bid for creator status, as he proceeds to inhabit a world that bears no similarity to the world God has just described. Job’s epilogue-world denies the ultimate reality of God’s whirlwind-world, but God’s whirlwind-world casts doubt upon the reality of Job’s epilogue-world. In this way, the book ends ambiguously; it curves back on itself, and the discussion about the nature of chaos and order continues, both within the book and beyond.
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Bousquet, Antoine James Aime. "The scientific way of warfare : order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2703/.
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The thesis of the present work is that throughout the modern era the dominant corpus of scientific ideas, as articulated around key machine technologies, has been reflected in the contemporary theories and practices of warfare in the Western world. Over the period covered by this thesis - from the ascendancy of the scientific worldview in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to present day - an ever more intimate symbiosis between science and warfare has established itself with the increasing reliance on the development and integration of technology within complex social assemblages of war. This extensive deployment of scientific ideas and methodologies in the military realm allows us to speak of the constitution and perpetuation of a scientific way of warfare. There are however within the scientific way of warfare significant variations in the theories and practices of warfare according to the prevalence of certain scientific ideas and technological apparatuses in given periods of the modern era. The four distinctive regimes I thereupon distinguish are those of mechanistic, thermodynamic, cybernetic, and chaoplexic warfare. Each of these regimes is characterised by a differing approach to the central question of order and chaos in war, on which hinge the related issues of centralisation and decentralisation, predictability and control.
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Cooper, Rachel Gray. "Augmented Neural Network Surrogate Models for Polynomial Chaos Expansions and Reduced Order Modeling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103423.
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Mathematical models describing real world processes are becoming increasingly complex to better match the dynamics of the true system. While this is a positive step towards more complete knowledge of our world, numerical evaluations of these models become increasingly computationally inefficient, requiring increased resources or time to evaluate. This has led to the need for simplified surrogates to these complex mathematical models.
A growing surrogate modeling solution is with the usage of neural networks. Neural networks (NN) are known to generalize an approximation across a diverse dataset and minimize the solution along complex nonlinear boundaries. Additionally, these surrogate models can be found using only incomplete knowledge of the true dynamics. However, NN surrogates often suffer from a lack of interpretability, where the decisions made in the training process are not fully understood, and the roles of individual neurons are not well defined.
We present two solutions towards this lack of interpretability. The first focuses on mimicking polynomial chaos (PC) modeling techniques, modifying the structure of a NN to produce polynomial approximations of the underlying dynamics. This methodology allows for an extractable meaning from the network and results in improvement in accuracy over traditional PC methods. Secondly, we examine the construction of a reduced order modeling scheme using NN autoencoders, guiding the decisions of the training process to better match the real dynamics. This guiding process is performed via a physics-informed (PI) penalty, resulting in a speed-up in training convergence, but still results in poor performance compared to traditional schemes.Master of Science
The world is an elaborate system of relationships between diverse processes. To accurately represent these relationships, increasingly complex models are defined to better match what is physically seen. These complex models can lead to issues when trying to use them to predict a realistic outcome, either requiring immensely powerful computers to run the simulations or long amounts of time to present a solution. To fix this, surrogates or approximations to these complex models are used. These surrogate models aim to reduce the resources needed to calculate a solution while remaining as accurate to the more complex model as possible. One way to make these surrogate models is through neural networks. Neural networks try to simulate a brain, making connections between some input and output given to the network. In the case of surrogate modeling, the input is some current state of the true process, and the output is what is seen later from the same system. But much like the human brain, the reasoning behind why choices are made when connecting the input and outputs is often largely unknown. Within this paper, we seek to add meaning to neural network surrogate models in two different ways. In the first, we change what each piece in a neural network represents to build large polynomials (e.g., $x^5 + 4x^2 + 2$) to approximate the larger complex system. We show that the building of these polynomials via neural networks performs much better than traditional ways to construct them. For the second, we guide the choices made by the neural network by enforcing restrictions in what connections it can make. We do this by using additional information from the larger system to ensure the connections made focus on the most important information first before trying to match the less important patterns. This guiding process leads to more information being captured when the surrogate model is compressed into only a few dimensions compared to traditional methods. Additionally, it allows for a faster learning time compared to similar surrogate models without the information.
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Gatenby, Bruce. "Systems of safety: Representation, order and the chaos of terrorism in modern fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185755.
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Poststructuralist literary theory has sought to question the foundations and assumptions concerning art and representation that have governed Western culture since the time of Plato. If something is not representable in language, in image, in sound, it supposedly does not exist. Thus non-representational concepts such as disorder, chaos and terror are codified, labelled, and controlled as threats to the system of representation. In order to maintain power, control, systems must repress the knowledge that the very foundation of their order (disorder, chaos, terror) are concepts at the very heart of the system itself. In effect, every system contains the elements of its own destruction, elements that are ironically empowered by the very attempt to repress their existence. Terrorism becomes a metaphor for the failure of systems such as history, philosophy, language, even civilization itself, to provide stable, absolute truths and meaning. In the history of Western metaphysics, terror, in its various manifestations, has always been a non-representable concept, both a threat to systems of order and a supposed vehicle for their change. The way that systems of power deal with the threat of terrorism has been a major subject for modern fiction; what follows is an investigation of the connections between what I call these "systems of safety," representation, terror, and modern fiction.
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Paskvalin, Jadranka. "Order, chaos, and the city, space and urban form into the twenty-first century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32214.pdf.
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Hecker-Bretschneider, Elisabeth. "Bedingte Ordnungen : Repräsentationen von Chaos und Ordnung bei Walt Whitman, 1840-1860 /." Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994722680/04.
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Odeleye, Delle. "Towards a Neo-Geomantic Language of Place? Chaos, Complexity & Implicate Order in Urban Design." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490507.
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The realities of climate change and diminishing resources now require that each discipline re-examines its ontological relationship with nature. This is likely to involve are-examination of its own origins and development, and may require restructuring its models and practices in line with the most up to date scientific thinking about natural processes and reality. The modem movement in architecture and planning, which treated urban components as isolated objects in an abstract space, failed because it oversimplified reality, based on a mechanistic view of the world -summed up by Le Corbusier's; -A house is a machine for living in- statement. Modemism's deficiencies, the need to improve 'quality of life' in expanding urban areas, and people's desire for greater interaction with their immediate surroundings, have highlighted a polarisation of views conceming recently popularised geomantic practices. These range from uncritical acceptance on one hand, to total dismissal without investigation, on the other. The design of settlements, urban design, has long-forgotten roots in such traditional, geomantic (i.e. earth-centred) ways of environmental modification in cultures across the world. These are commonly thought to be archaic and irrelevant in our contemporary era. However, they were often a key basis on which settlements that are vital &vibrant, or are now much loved, were planned. The integrated way in which places were considered, appears to resonate with the mu/ti-dimensional ways in which we perceive the world, and is beginning to be reflected in some wholistic views being suggested by the 'New Sciences'. The post-modernist sciences of chaos and complex systems have revealed some of the deep structures and dynamic processes that underlie the diversity and complexity of the natural world. These are reflected in the way our brains are structured and by our perceptual processes, appearing to extend even to the social and economic systems people create. Such leading-edge paradigms promise more useful methods for dealing with complex built-environment issues. Over the last two decades, the traditional idea of 'place-making' has been effecting a comeback into urban discourse and regenerative practice. This study explores what this might mean for urban design theory as seen through the lenses of ancient and traditional geomantic approaches on the one hand, and the emergent concepts of chaos, complexity and implicate order in the sciences, on the other hand. It also uses relevant insights from post-modem design trends, to explore the usefulness of geomantic approaches in understanding place-complexity. This is done by firstly seeking to detennine what, if any, links might exist between geomantic and scientific worldviews, and secondly, by synthesising the implications of empirical studies underlying such a reconciliation, to formulate aConceptual Framework of place structure. Key elements of this place-structure are then used to propose a Generative Framework of the possible dynamics underlying urban morphogenesis. Ageneric mapping of attributes comprising our 'sense-of-place' with those ofageomantic 'meta-language' is outlined and briefly applied, to assess its usefulness andfile prospects for generating place complexity in various cultures. It thereby proposes a method for integrating extant urban design methodologies -and suggests through their mapping, the basis of a derivative language for representing key aspects ofthis complexity in urban design.
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Gallucci, Nicole Lynn. "From Chaos to Order: Balancing Cross-Cultural Communication in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Southeast." UNF Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/516.
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This Master’s Thesis examines the ways in which the culturally distinct groups who inhabited the pre-colonial and colonial Southeast approached cross-cultural communication. The extensive and violent entradas led by Spaniards into the Southeastern interior in the 1500s represent a watershed moment in North American history that deeply impacted the economic, social, and geopolitical landscapes of an already well-populated and politically sophisticated region. The subsequent establishment of St. Augustine in 1565 and the arrival of the British in the mid-seventeenth century are similarly seen as pivotal moments in the region’s history that forced many culturally and linguistically dissimilar groups to interact. Early accounts of cross-cultural interactions are peppered with glimpses into the importance of verbal and nonverbal communication to the successes and failures of Indian and European groups and individuals in the region.
This thesis explores how different groups actually learned and utilized language and communication in pre-colonial and colonial times. It argues that Southeastern Indians remained active agents of their lives when faced with the drama and disharmony that often accompanied European settlements and the individuals who populated them. Although they sometimes borrowed communicative techniques and methods from their European counterparts when attempting to quell cross-cultural anxieties and misunderstandings, Southeastern Indians continued to rely on methods of communication predicated on maintaining balance and harmony within and between communities developed during the Mississippian period. Meaning making, performance, and communicative practice lay at the heart of this study, as do the multiple perspectives of those who contributed to these processes.
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Sweet, Virginia K. "Exploring the implicate order in public organizations: the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39583.
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Sweet, Virginia K. "Exploring the implicate order in public organziations : the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory /." This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032007-172119/.
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Sidwell, Robert William. "Maintaining Order in the Midst of Chaos: Robert E. Lee's Usage of His Personal Staff." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1239652034.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 16, 2009). Advisor: Kevin Adams. Keywords: military history; U. S. Civil War; Confederate army; Army of Northern Virginia; Lee, Robert E.; staff. Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-141).
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Smuts, Leon. "Relasies in die chaosteorie / Leon Smuts." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/778.
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The central purpose of this study is the integration of modem philosophical
thinking with different chaos theory principles and definitions to form relational
perspectives. Relations are used in different contexts to base the causes of
deterministic chaos (chaost) in the laws of nature which constitutes order. The
chaost-attractor is used as subjective conception to investigate the possibilities of
hidden order in a seemingly chaotic state of the objective reality.
Relevant definitions of the chaos theory were analysed methodically and
transcendentally with the aid of concepts of order and relations. Attention is given
to the broad associations and analogies from philosophy and other disciplines
which relate to the connectivity of objects to form systems. Subjective model
development was done which is used to consequentially analyse some
statements from published research which applied principles of chaost.
It is argued that: the intrinsic properties of objects determine the causality of
forces which bind objects to compose systems; a web of interactive bonds
functions subjective to laws of nature which determine whether a system is in a
state of order, chaost or real chaos; a dynamical transfer of many intrinsic and
asymmetric properties via internal bonds constitutes non-linear connectivity which
causes a sensitivity for initial conditions.
It is found that the chaost of the chaos theory is not the same as real, objective
chaos. The random-like evolution of a dynamic system is determined by the
occurrence of irregularities and uncertainties in its internal order. A web of
interactive bonds distribute small changes self-similar and scale-relevant. The
difficulty in describing and explaining the complex behaviour of composed entities
is simplified by the proposed web-chaost model.Thesis (M.A. (Philosophy))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Kim, Tae Woo. "Individual(s), individualism, and the world of chaos and order : a study of Tom Stoppard's works." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30267.
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In the early works, typically in Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are Dead and Lord Malquist and Mr Moon. Stoppard presents modem man's desperate efforts to find meanings in his lives and the world, on the one hand, and the agonizing process of an aspiring writer trying to establish his own identity as a creative writer, on the other. In spite of their instinctive and intuitive belief in the order of the world, however, the early protagonists are unredeemably entrapped in chaos, and end up in ignominious deaths. After the spectacular success of Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are Dead, the tone of Stoppard's works changed in a significant, if almost imperceptible, way. The frustration and helplessness which permeate his earlier works almost disappeared. More significantly, Stoppard deliberately tried to expound and defend his own ideas on such fundamental issues as morality and art in Jumpers and Travesties, respectively, and the ideas have basically remained the same throughout his whole career. After Travesties there took place more explicit changes in style and subject in Stoppard's works which marked Stoppard's so-called political theatre. The works of this period can best be explained as occasional and transitional, and, it is through these political works that Stoppard's individualist ethic found its most clear-cut expression. The Real Thing signals a new, maturer era of Stoppardian theatre. Stoppard almost for the first time furnished the stage with fully fleshed-out characters not only in terms of the protagonist but down to every and each minor character. Ideas are not simply presented as preconceived, but unfold themselves to the final conclusion through dramatic actions and conflicts. Love, a rare theme in the Stoppardian theatre until then, finally takes centre stage as "the real thing", and is presented in such a way that only through love is a real union possible between the people (individuals). Arcadia is the closest to Stoppard's dramatic ideal of "the perfect marriage between ideas and high comedy".
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Haddad, James R. "Order and Chaos in the Olivine Underworld| Two Mechanisms for the Formation of Basal Olivine Layers." Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928048.
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Recent debate has questioned the efficiency of magma differentiation in basaltic magma chambers (Marsh, 2013). As a result, petrologists are increasingly inclined to interpret olivine cumulate layers in small intrusive bodies as separately injected slurries, as opposed to the result of in-situ differentiation. Two sills with basal olivine layers, the 0601 sill, Victoria Island, NWT, Canada, and the Palisades Sill, Fort Lee, NJ have been examined in detail. First, it can be shown that the 0601 sill could have formed by the emplacement of a single phenocryst bearing magma, followed by settling of the initial phenocryst load, and in-situ differentiation. Second, a high-resolution analysis of the internal ordering of the Palisades Sill olivine horizon, widely recognized as the result of an olivine slurry, is described in order to create a generalizable model of basal olivine layers formed via slurry emplacement (Husch, 1990; Gorring, 1995). Both sills were analyzed for whole rock major and trace element compositions, mineral compositions, crystal size distributions and modal mineralogy. Parent-Daughter modeling, Pearce Element Ratio Analysis, trace element modeling, and MELTS (Ghiorso and Sack, 1995; Asimow and Ghiorso, 1998) were then used to model formation mechanisms. Finally, the 0601 sill olivine cumulate layer is com-pared with the Palisades Sill olivine horizon. While both olivine cumulate zones look superficially similar, detailed investigation reveals that a well developed trend of progressively increasing olivine upward from the base, as observed in the 0601 sill is best explained by crystal settling within an initial phenocryst-phyric magma, followed by in-situ differentiation, and cannot be explained by a slurry emplacement process.
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Ilebode, Terry, and Annwesh Mukherjee. "FROM CHAOS TO ORDER: A study on how data-driven development can help improve decision-making." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20070.
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AbstractThe increasing amount of data available from software systems has given a unique opportunity for software development organizations to make use of it in decision-making. There are several types of data such as bug reports, website interaction information, product usage extent or test results coming into software-intensive companies and there is a perceived lack of structure associated with the data. The data is mostly scattered and not in an organized form to be utilized further. The data, if analyzed in an effective way, can be useful for many purposes, especially in decision-making. The decisions can be on the level of business or on the level of product execution. In this paper, through a literature review, an interview study and a qualitative analysis we categorize different types data that organizations nowadays collect. Based on the categorization we order the different types of decisions that are generally taken in a software development process cycle. Combining the two we create a model to explain a recommended process of handling the surge of data and making effective use of it. The model is a tool to help both practitioners and academicians who want to have a clearer understanding of which type of data can best be used for which type of decisions. An outline of how further research can be conducted in the area is also highlighted.
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Choquet, Isabelle. "Environnements numériques et PME : figures du chaos et nouveaux usages." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30016/document.
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La « révolution » du web 2.0 s’est-elle imposée dans les PME ? La mise en réseau, porté par le web 2.0 qui met l’utilisateur au centre des processus de l’entreprise, a–t’elle opéré un changement de paradigme communicationnel au sens de Kuhn ? Sur fonds d’une société de plus en plus fluide, inscrite dans l’incertitude et la complexité, cette thèse s’intéresse à la question des ajustements transversaux en lien avec le web 2.0 et à leur prise en compte par les PME. Ce dernier peut être vu comme source de désordres dans l’organisation et la PME sera tentée de vouloir les réguler. Néanmoins, certaines PME choisiront de s’en servir comme d’un tremplin. Elles vont à la fois construire sur des compétences existantes et améliorer l’efficience de l’entreprise (activité d’exploitation) mais également explorer des champs totalement nouveaux (activité d’exploration) dont l’intelligence collective et le crowdsourcing sont des exemples. Les outils du web 2.0 indiquent le passage d’une technologie « outils » considérée comme stable vers une technologie « sociale » caractérisée par l’instabilité. Le web 2.0 a un effet de catalyseur qui suscite et facilite à la fois les ajustements transversaux, il peut se concevoir comme un levier de pilotage vers une organisation plus centrée sur les individus et les groupes. Ceci pose un certain nombre de défis aux PME. L’éclairage des sciences du chaos et de la complexité semble une piste intéressante pour comprendre cet équilibre à atteindre entre ordre et désordre. Cette thèse a un ancrage interdisciplinaire et montre l’intérêt de croiser les sciences de gestion et les sciences de l’information et de la communication lorsque ces disciplines sont appelées à prendre en compte la complexité des rapports transversaux mais aussi de co-construction entre consom’acteurs et PME. La recherche s’appuie entre autres, sur un terrain applicatif de 93 PME, auditées entre 2010 et 2014Is the revolution of the so-called Web 2.0 a real success for the SMEs? Do we really see a change of the communication paradigm (following Kuhn’s meaning) due to the arrival of the networks that put the individual at the centre of the organization processes? Within the framework of a “fluid society” characterised by uncertainty and complexity, this thesis focuses on the issue of internal and external adjustments in connection with the Web 2.0 within SMEs. These adjustments may be a source of disorder within the organization and SMEs would try to regulate them. Nevertheless, some SMEs will choose to use them as a springboard. They will build on existing skills, improve the efficiency of the company (operating activity) and also explore completely new fields (exploration activity) like collective intelligence and crowdsourcing. The web 2.0 indicates the passage of a "tools" technology considered as stable to a "social" technology characterized by instability. The Web 2.0 has a catalytic effect that encourages and facilitates transversal adjustments. It could be seen as a way to transform the organization in order to become more focused on individuals and groups. But it also brings a number of challenges for SMEs. Using the concepts of chaos and complexity was an interesting way to understand this balance to be attained between order and disorder. This thesis is interdisciplinary by objective. It intends to show the interest of using together theories, literature and fields coming from management, information science and communication when these disciplines are required to take into account the complexity of relationships but also co-construction between prosumers and SMEs, and management and employees. The research will be based inter alia on a total of 93 SMEs, audited by the author between 2010 and 2014
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Bargman, Daniil. "How Irrational Behavour Creates Order and How This Order Can Be Determined : The Theory and Practice of Fractal Market Analysis." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15533.
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This paper analyzes two main frameworks that challenge the “mainstream” finance theory and the random walk hypothesis. The first framework is based on investor irrationality and is called Behavioural Finance. The second framework views the financial market as a chaotic system and is called Fractal Theory of a financial market. Behavioural Finance attacks the assumption of investor rationality, thus challenging the conventional finance theories on the micro level. Fractal Theory challenges the EMH and the “macroeconomics” of finance. This paper presents a step towards unifying the frameworks of Behavioural Finance and Fractal Theory. After a review of the relevant literature, a model of the financial market is suggested that rests on the predictions of both Behavioural Finance and Fractal Theory. As a next step, a mathematical algorithm is described that allows to test the financial market for consistency with the presented model. The mathematical algorithm is applied to 10 years of daily S&P500 price quotes, and consistent statistical evidence shows that the predicted fractal pattern reveals itself in the S&P500 prices. The new model outperforms the random walk in out-of-sample forecasting.
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Braun, Mathias. "Reduced Order Modelling and Uncertainty Propagation Applied to Water Distribution Networks." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0050/document.
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Les réseaux de distribution d’eau consistent en de grandes infrastructures réparties dans l’espace qui assurent la distribution d’eau potable en quantité et en qualité suffisantes. Les modèles mathématiques de ces systèmes sont caractérisés par un grand nombre de variables d’état et de paramètres dont la plupart sont incertains. Les temps de calcul peuvent s’avérer conséquents pour les réseaux de taille importante et la propagation d’incertitude par des méthodes de Monte Carlo. Par conséquent, les deux principaux objectifs de cette thèse sont l’étude des techniques de modélisation à ordre réduit par projection ainsi que la propagation spectrale des incertitudes des paramètres. La thèse donne tout d’abord un aperçu des méthodes mathématiques utilisées. Ensuite, les équations permanentes des réseaux hydrauliques sont présentées et une nouvelle méthode de calcul des sensibilités est dérivée sur la base de la méthode adjointe. Les objectifs spécifiques du développement de modèles d’ordre réduit sont l’application de méthodes basées sur la projection, le développement de stratégies d’échantillonnage adaptatives plus efficaces et l’utilisation de méthodes d’hyper-réduction pour l’évaluation rapide des termes résiduels non linéaires. Pour la propagation des incertitudes, des méthodes spectrales sont introduites dans le modèle hydraulique et un modèle hydraulique intrusif est formulé. Dans le but d’une analyse plus efficace des incertitudes des paramètres, la propagation spectrale est ensuite évaluée sur la base du modèle réduit. Les résultats montrent que les modèles d’ordre réduit basés sur des projections offrent un avantage considérable par rapport à l’effort de calcul. Bien que l’utilisation de l’échantillonnage adaptatif permette une utilisation plus efficace des états système pré-calculés, l’utilisation de méthodes d’hyper-réduction n’a pas permis d’améliorer la charge de calcul. La propagation des incertitudes des paramètres sur la base des méthodes spectrales est comparable aux simulations de Monte Carlo en termes de précision, tout en réduisant considérablement l’effort de calculWater distribution systems are large, spatially distributed infrastructures that ensure the distribution of potable water of sufficient quantity and quality. Mathematical models of these systems are characterized by a large number of state variables and parameter. Two major challenges are given by the time constraints for the solution and the uncertain character of the model parameters. The main objectives of this thesis are thus the investigation of projection based reduced order modelling techniques for the time efficient solution of the hydraulic system as well as the spectral propagation of parameter uncertainties for the improved quantification of uncertainties. The thesis gives an overview of the mathematical methods that are being used. This is followed by the definition and discussion of the hydraulic network model, for which a new method for the derivation of the sensitivities is presented based on the adjoint method. The specific objectives for the development of reduced order models are the application of projection based methods, the development of more efficient adaptive sampling strategies and the use of hyper-reduction methods for the fast evaluation of non-linear residual terms. For the propagation of uncertainties spectral methods are introduced to the hydraulic model and an intrusive hydraulic model is formulated. With the objective of a more efficient analysis of the parameter uncertainties, the spectral propagation is then evaluated on the basis of the reduced model. The results show that projection based reduced order models give a considerable benefit with respect to the computational effort. While the use of adaptive sampling resulted in a more efficient use of pre-calculated system states, the use of hyper-reduction methods could not improve the computational burden and has to be explored further. The propagation of the parameter uncertainties on the basis of the spectral methods is shown to be comparable to Monte Carlo simulations in accuracy, while significantly reducing the computational effort
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Shea-Blymyer, Colin Russel. "Distinguishing Dynamical Kinds: An Approach for Automating Scientific Discovery." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101659.
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The automation of scientific discovery has been an active research topic for many years.
The promise of a formalized approach to developing and testing scientific hypotheses has
attracted researchers from the sciences, machine learning, and philosophy alike. Leveraging
the concept of dynamical symmetries a new paradigm is proposed for the collection of
scientific knowledge, and algorithms are presented for the development of EUGENE – an
automated scientific discovery tool-set. These algorithms have direct applications in model
validation, time series analysis, and system identification. Further, the EUGENE tool-set
provides a novel metric of dynamical similarity that would allow a system to be clustered
into its dynamical regimes. This dynamical distance is sensitive to the presence of chaos,
effective order, and nonlinearity. I discuss the history and background of these algorithms,
provide examples of their behavior, and present their use for exploring system dynamics.Master of Science
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Gröger, Maik [Verfasser], Bernd O. [Akademischer Betreuer] Stratmann, and Henk [Akademischer Betreuer] Bruin. "Examples of dynamical systems in the interface between order and chaos / Maik Gröger. Betreuer: Bernd O. Stratmann. Gutachter: Bernd O. Stratmann ; Henk Bruin." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077864388/34.
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McKinlay, Neil Charles. "Order in a world of chaos : a comparative study of a central dialectic in works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Luis Cernuda." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1348/.
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This thesis is a comparative study of three overtly unrelated authors. Thomas Mann, Kafka and Cernuda, setting them in a European context of a 'crisis of faith' where doubt in the existence of an ordered universe ultimately governed by God is becoming widespread. Rather than a philosophical or theological study, however, this thesis concentrates on the way that this loss of faith finds its expression in literature. After a brief introduction, setting the context, the focus is first of all on the way that faith in God (or some kind of Absolute) and order generally becomes lost, and the consequences of that loss in individual lives. Not surprisingly, this loss of order is grounds for despair, but what then manifests itself is a desire to find order once again. It is this desire for order which then provides the focus for the whole of the rest of the thesis. There is a desire both for absolute order and for order in the material world. Chapter two concentrates on the quest for absolute order, which would give genuine ontological security and a sense that there is ultimate meaning and purpose in the cosmos. This quest does however fail, but there are other quests for order, in both 'love' and erotic impulses and in art. The problems however continue, for 'love' is dominated by a sexuality which causes more chaos than it does order, and at its best is only transient. Similarly, art, while at times positive, at least temporarily, can divorce the artist from life and can bring him into contact with a darker, more 'chaotic' side of existence. There is also the desire to write literary works themselves, but this has problems of its own: the fluid nature of meaning and the fate of literature once it has left the control of the writer.
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Majri, Hanane. "Ordre et désordre dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Luigi Pirandello." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30053.
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La recherche entreprise est une étude des œuvres romanesques de Luigi Pirandello, étude dont le fil conducteur est le rapport inextricable d’ordre et de désordre. Prisonniers d’une forme, les personnages pirandelliens tentent de se libérer à travers un questionnement existentiel sans fin qui leur fait prendre conscience des limites de leur être, mais aussi de leur difficulté à communiquer. Confrontés au regard de l’ « Autre », ils apparaissent toujours porteurs d’un masque, ce qui leur dénie toute identité stable et définitive. Et il n’est pas étonnant, dans ces conditions, que chaque personnage soit tout à la fois « un, personne et cent mille ». D’où le relativisme de Pirandello et sa théorie de l’humorisme qui vise à montrer les choses dans leur profondeur et leur abyssale complexité. En effet, pour Pirandello la réalité est multiple et changeante en fonction des points de vue. De plus, elle est souvent le résultat d’une série de hasards qui la mettent à l’épreuve du chaos, ce qui induit, chez les personnages, doute, incertitude et mal-être. C’est pourquoi leur quête de vérité et d’authenticité sera toujours infinie, sans cesse renouvelée. Entre désir de fuite et retours en arrière, leur vie sera – quelle qu’en soit la forme – illusoire. Tout au plus une fictionThe research undertaken here is a study of Pirandello’s novels ; a study with the inextricable relationship between order and disorder as a main theme. Imprisoned in their form, Pirandello’s characters attempt to free themselves through an endless existential questioning which makes them aware of their limitations as beings, and their difficulties to communicate. Confronted to the eyes of “others”, they always appear with a mask on, which denies them any stable and clear-cut identity. As a consequence it is not surprising that each character is at once “one, nobody and a hundred thousand”. This explains Pirandello’s relativism and his theory of humour which aims at showing things in depth and in their abyssal complexity. Indeed, in Pirandello’s view, reality is multiple changing depending on the points of view; Moreover, it is often a series of chances which puts it to the test of chaos, which entails doubt, uncertainty and discomfort on the characters. That is why their quest of truth and authenticity will always be infinite, continually renewed between the will to escape and backwards looks to the past, their lives –whatever their forms – will be illusory- a fiction at the most
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Yuan, Mengfei. "Machine Learning-Based Reduced-Order Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification for "Structure-Property" Relations for ICME Applications." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555580083945861.
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Walters, Robert G. "Order out of chaos: a study of the application of Auftragstaktik by the 11th Panzer Division during the Chir River battles 7 - 19 December 1942." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26144.
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Aldrovandi, Carlo. "Apocalyptic movements in contemporary politics : Christian Zionism and Jewish Religious Zionism." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5503.
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This dissertation focuses on the 'theo-political' core of US Christian Zionism and Jewish Religious Zionism. The political militancy characterizing two Millenarian/Messianic movements such as Christian Zionism and Jewish Religious Zionism constitutes a still under-researched and under-theorized aspect that, at present, is paramount to address for its immediate and long terms implications in the highly sensitive and volatile Israeli-Palestinian issue, in the US and Israeli domestic domain, and in the wider international community. Although processes of the 'sacralisation of politics' and 'politicisation of religions' have already manifested themselves in countless forms over past centuries, Christian Zionism and Jewish Religious Zionism are unprecedented phenomena given their unique hybridized nature, political prominence and outreach, mobilizing appeal amongst believers, organizational-communicational skills and degree of institutionalization.
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Guy, Julien [Verfasser], Jochen [Akademischer Betreuer] Staiger, Tim [Gutachter] Gollisch, and Siegrid [Gutachter] Löwel. "Order under the guise of chaos: functional neuroanatomy of the somatosensory "barrel" cortex of the reeler mutant mouse / Julien Guy. Betreuer: Jochen Staiger. Gutachter: Tim Gollisch ; Siegrid Löwel." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1102535745/34.
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Bauman, Zygmunt. "Local Orders, Global Chaos." Universität Potsdam, 1999. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2378/.
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Attindéhou, Olivier-Charles Bernardin. "Penser l'instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne. Examen des causes et revendication heuristique : la stabilité par le chaos. Les cas illustratifs de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Rwanda." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3053.
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L’Afrique subsaharienne se présente, involontairement, comme une région en proie à une succession de crises, de conflits, de guerres civiles. Ces externalités négatives de l’instabilité socio-politique s’appréhendent, souvent, par le truchement du rite jaculatoire causal. D’où, les vocables « ethnies », « identité » – lorsqu’il n’est pas question de sous-développement, ou de l’injection du déficit démocratique –, auprès des commentateurs, sont, de façon cursive, convoqués pour expliquer le désordre perçu. Ainsi, les événements de 1994 au Rwanda sont ramenés à un conflit – « ethnique » – Hutu/Tutsi; négligeant par voie de conséquence l’acuité de la complexité de la réalité, ou à défaut, celle de la convergence de variables. Et pourtant, en descendant dans cette profondeur cognitive, tout observateur constaterait que l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne reste une construction dans le temps et dans l’espace, optimisée par l’impénitent désir de pouvoir des acteurs politiques. Les structures historiques, loin d’être de véritables déterminants, participent à la construction sociale de la réalité porteuse d’idées, de règles et de pratiques représentationnelles qui érigent la nécessaire grammaire du bouleversement social. Nos présents travaux, non seulement, viennent examiner les causes habituellement avancées, mais s’opposent également aux arguments culturalistes mobilisés pour l’explication ou la compréhension de l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne. C’est pourquoi, nous retenons que la justesse scientifique afférente à la compréhension du mouvement mécanistique socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne est fonction du mode de connaissance de la réalité perçue. Par conséquent, nous estimons que l’instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne, est un processus dynamique évolutif qui, nonobstant le désordre structurel, tend vers une stationnarité relative, puis absolue avant l’avènement de la stabilitéSubsaharan Africa presents itself, involuntarily, like an area in the grip of a succession of crises, conflicts, civil wars. These negative externalities of sociopolitical instability are apprehended, often, by the means of the causal ritual. That's why, the terms "ethnic group", "identity" - when it isn't question of underdevelopment, or the injection of democratic deficit - near the commentators, in a cursory mention, are convened to explain the perceived disorder. Thus, the events of 1994 in Rwanda are brought back to a "ethnic" conflict Hutu/Tutsi; negleging consequently the acuity of the complexity of reality or failing this, that of the convergence of variables. And yet, while going down in this cognitive depth, any observer would note that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa remains a construction in time and space, optimized by the unrepentant desire of power of the political actors. The historical structures, far from being true determinants, take part in the social construction of reality carrying ideas, rules, and practices representational which set up the necessary grammar of the social upheaval. Our present work, not only comes to examine the usually advanced causes, but is also opposed to the culturalist arguments mobilized for the explanation or the comprehension of sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa. This is why, we retain that the scientific accuracy related with the comprehension of sociopolitical mechanisitc movement in subsaharan Africa is function of the mode of knowledge of perceived reality. Consequently, we estimate that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa, is an evolutionary dynamic process which, notwhithstanding, the strutural disorder, strives for a relative stationnarity, then absolute before the advent of stability
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Finamore, Stephen. "God, order and chaos : a history of the interpretation of Revelation's plague sequences (6.1-17; 8.1-9.21, 11.15-19; 15.1, 15.7-16.21) and an assessment of Rene Girard's thought for understanding of these visions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361819.
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Šustková, Apolena. "Řešení obyčejných diferenciálních rovnic neceločíselného řádu metodou Adomianova rozkladu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-445455.
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This master's thesis deals with solving fractional-order ordinary differential equations by the Adomian decomposition method. A part of the work is therefore devoted to the theory of equations containing differential operators of non-integer order, especially the Caputo operator. The next part is devoted to the Adomian decomposition method itself, its properties and implementation in the case of Chen system. The work also deals with bifurcation analysis of this system, both for integer and non-integer case. One of the objectives is to clarify the discrepancy in the literature concerning the fractional-order Chen system, where experiments based on the use of the Adomian decomposition method give different results for certain input parameters compared with numerical methods. The clarification of this discrepancy is based on recent theoretical knowledge in the field of fractional-order differential equations and their systems. The conclusions are supported by numerical experiments, own code implementing the Adomian decomposition method on the Chen system was used.
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Larsson, Joakim. "Disciplin och motstånd : Pedagogisk-filosofiska perspektiv på samtida svensk skoldisciplin." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-28647.
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As Sweden approached its 2006 national election, issues on order and discipline in educational environments came to the forefront of educational interest, debate, and reform. This thesis aims at a critical discussion of the discourses in question, making use of educational, post-structural as well as political philosophy. In a series of articles, disciplinary policies are contextualized within current understandings of major trends in global educational politics; empirically investigated with a focus on resistance and political subjectivation; but also theoretically/ philosophically examined with the intention of bringing alternative conceptualizations of discipline to light. As a result, it is concluded that the political platform supporting contemporary school discipline is highly ambiguous, especially in terms of the different subjectification ideals that it embodies. In consequence, substantial possibilities for resistance, political influence and creative subjectification emerge in the breaks and ruptures between neoliberal and neoconservative territory. As for the disciplinary policies themselves, this thesis highlights the possibility that they amount to little more than a powerful simulation; a mode of perceptual management rather than a hands-on engagement with the real demands of contemporary education. An alternative route, the thesis suggests, would be to radically re-conceptualize the meaning and relevance of discipline – using, for instance, philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Jacques Rancière – but also while taking notice of relevant discussions in the fields of complexity and chaos theory. Such a re-conceptualization would allow for an immanent form of discipline, one that affords a circular segmentation to emerge; contextualized and sensitized to the particular demands of each learning situation rather than pre-stratified, pre-territorialized according to the ideals of classical discipline.Syftet med den här avhandlingen är, att inom ett pedagogiskt-filosofiskt ramverk föra en kritisk diskussion av 2000-talets skolpolitiska diskurser om disciplin och ”ordning & reda”. Med hjälp av filosofer som Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard och Rancière diskuteras den moderna disciplinens utmaning: att svara an på sin egen samtids behov av ordning och reda. I sömmarna mellan de politiska krafter som den nya disciplinen hämtar sin kraft ur – neoliberalism och neokonservatism – identifierar avhandlingen också möjligheter till motstånd. Genom att påvisa de skillnader och komplexiteter som finns under ytan av politisk konsensus, utgör dessa former av motstånd nya potentialer till politiskt inflytande – samt nya möjligheter till kreativa subjektblivanden. Slutligen hävdar studien, att vägen till en gräsrotsförankrad skoldisciplin för 2000-talet knappast kan ligga i återuppväckandet av forna tiders maktutövning, utan i en radikal omtolkning av disciplinbegreppet – en som tillvaratar den moderna människans förutsättningar till självdisciplin och självorganisering. En förutsättning är att vi, som en kontrast till neoliberalismens självtillräckliga subjektivitetsideal, börjar utforska subjektivitetens kollektiva och territoriella karaktärer.
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Mowaket, Anoud. "Ordre et chaos,hasard et necessite dans l'oeuvre romanesque de thomas hardy." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030181.
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Le debut des recits de thomas hardy est caracterise par un ordre souvent precaire. Puis vient un developpement chaotique. Le desordre s'infiltre dans la vie des personnages et provoque bien des malheurs. L'ordre initial est perturbe lorsque l'un des personnages commet une erreur grave, "legitime" ou meme insignifiante. Celle-ci entraine des consequences importantes et engage tous les autres personnages dans une succession d'erreurs nourries par des forces incontrolables dominees par le hasard et la necessite. Les personnages hardyens semblent etre la proie de leur propre caractere, de leur environnement (naturel, culturel et social), de leur passe, des lois de la nature, de l'heredite, du temps, ou encore d'une force inconnue qui, selon eux, n'a pour intention que de contrecarrer leurs projets. Les personnages forts sont ceux qui luttent contre toutes ces forces, mais qui ne reussissent que rarement, car des le debut ils sont voues a l'echec, portant en eux les elements destructeurs de la tragedie. A la fin des romans, nos heros sont desesperes et cessent de lutter, car ils n'ont plus ni l'envie ni la force de vivre, et ils se laissent devorer par les elements et les personnages plus forts qu'eux. Meme quand ils ont la liberte de choisir, leurs actes interviennent trop tard et manquent de portee. Toutefois, a la fin du roman l'ordre semble regner de nouveau, mais ce n'est qu'une apparence, car cet ordre est une sorte de compromis qui ne resout nullement les problemes des habitants du wessex.
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Laurent, David. "Chaos ondulatoire et diffusion multiple en cavité micro-ondes : expériences modèles et applications." Nice, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007NICE4079.
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Quel que soit le type d'onde étudié, on peut classer les systèmes ondulatoires complexes essentiellement en deux catégories, et ceci malgré la différence entre les équations d'ondes qui les régissent. On a d'une part ceux pour lesquels la géométrie des bords induit la complexité : on parle alors de chaos ondulatoire. On a d'autre part les systèmes rendus complexes du fait des hétérogénéités du milieu conduisant à un régime de diffusion multiple. L'utilisation des cavités micro-ondes bidimensionnelles (2D) comme système de base pour étudier ces deux régimes permet de réaliser des expériences modèles à l’échelle macroscopique. Dans le régime du chaos ondulatoire, nous étudions, pour la première fois dans une expérience, le cas d'une cavité rectangulaire perturbée par un défaut métallique quasi-ponctuel. En nous appuyant sur une approche semi-classique, basée sur la notion d'orbites périodiques, nous mettons en évidence, pour la première fois, les contributions des orbites diffractives dans les spectres de longueurs. L'utilisation de milieux désordonnés diélectriques fortement diffusifs ouverts, permet d'observer la localisation d'Anderson 2D par l’étude des modes localisés. Nous décrivons dans le détail le dispositif expérimental ainsi que le protocole suivi pour remonter à la représentation spatiale d’un mode localisé. Nous prouvons, pour la première fois expérimentalement, que les largeurs spectrales de ces modes localisés, liées aux fuites de l’énergie par les bords du système, décroissent exponentiellement avec la taille du système. Nous montrons, en outre, que cette décroissance exponentielle est contrôlée par les plus grandes longueurs de localisationComplex wave systems can be classified in two categories, whatever the type of wave equation involved. When complexity is induced by the geometry of boundaries one speaks of Wave Chaos. In the case of heterogeneous media complexity is due to multiple scattering. Microwave 2D cavities are ideal model systems to investigate both regimes on a macroscopic scale. In the Wave Chaos regime, a first experimental study of a rectangular cavity perturbed by a point-like metallic defect. Using a semiclassical approach based on periodic orbits, we provide evidence for the contributions of diffractive orbits in the length spectrum. Through the use of open strongly disordered dielectric media, the observation of 2D localized modes, in the sense of Anderson, is performed. We give details about the experimental setup and protocol to produce the spatial pattern of a localized mode. We experimentally demonstrate that the spectral widths of localized modes, related to leakage at the boundary, exponentially decrease with the system size. We also show that this decrease is controlled by the largest localization lengths
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Hayek, Yasmine Wafic. "Ordre et chaos sur les marchés financiers : nouvel environnement de la gestion de portefeuille." Paris 9, 2001. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2001PA090042.
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Bleeker, Jate. "An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?" Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-200830.
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A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality.