Research on e-commerce transaction networks using multi-agent modelling and open application programming interface

We provide a formal definition of an e-commerce transaction network. Agent-based modelling is used to simulate e-commerce transaction networks. For real-world analysis, we studied the open application programming interfaces (APIs) from eBay and Taobao e-commerce websites and captured real transaction data. Pajek is used to visualise the agent relationships in the transaction network. We derived one-mode networks from the transaction network and analysed them using degree and betweenness centrality. Integrating multi-agent modelling, open APIs and social network analysis, we propose a new way to study large-scale e-commerce systems.     

控制论在学生思想政治工作中的应用

如何大力加强和改进学生思想政治工作，促进思想政治工作与教学科研工作一体化，使学校朝着正确的方向发展，这是在当前条件下摆在我们每一位教育工作者面前的崭新课题，本文把控制论中有关的控制原理运用到学生思想政治工作中，提出了在学校人才培养过程中，根据学生行为控制系统，运用控制原理做好学生思想政治工作的一般方法。     

Customers’ everyday understanding of ‘value’ from a second-order cybernetic perspective

ABSTRACT

Value is in the centre of service and marketing. However, what does value mean to customers? The purpose of the paper is to contribute to an understanding of value from a customers’ perspective using a second-order cybernetics approach. We found that the word ‘value’ is recursively linked to 13 different ‘meanings’ indicating a variety of understandings of the term ‘value’. Furthermore, the findings support service-dominant logic where customers integrate their own resources (skills and knowledge) in the value co-creation process. Future research has to be aware of the different meanings, which are associated with value. Marketing managers need to understand, on the one hand, that value has a different meaning to their customer and on the other hand, what value means to their specific target groups.     

Thermoeconomics: Beyond the Second Law

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger's (1945) What is Life? has inspired many subsequent efforts to explain biological evolution, especially the evolution of complex systems, in terms of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the concepts of ‘entropy’ and ‘negative entropy’. However, the problems associated with this paradigm are manifold. Here some of these problems will be highlighted and briefly critiqued. ‘Thermoeconomics’, by contrast, is based on the proposition that the role of energy in biological evolution should be defined and understood not in terms of the Second Law but in terms of such economic criteria as ‘productivity’, ‘efficiency’, and especially the costs and benefits (or ‘profitability’) of the various mechanisms for capturing and utilizing available energy to build biomass and do work. Thus thermoeconomics is fully consistent with the Darwinian paradigm. Economic criteria provide a better account of the advances (and recessions) in bioenergetic technologies than does any formulation derived from the Second Law.     

The rejection of Andrew G. Pikler from postwar American economics

This paper introduces the life and work of the Hungarian-born, U.S.-naturalized economist Andrew Pikler (1907–1984). First in 1930s Hungary and then as a refugee in postwar U.S., Pikler pursued a radical program of physics analogies in economics. This program was endorsed by (among others) John von Neumann who, however, unsuccessfully tried to introduce Pikler into the Cowles Commission. In the end, Pikler could not become a professional economist. His experience testifies to a major turn in mathematical economics in the 1950s, as this field avoided programmatic and explicit physics analogies and also diverged from cybernetics.     

赛博格人类学:信息时代的“控制论有机体”隐喻与智识生产

本文试图通过分析赛博格之概念,为中国文化人类学提起一种虽有关联但不同于互联网人类学等应用研究,主要聚焦信息社会人之主体性重构的范式转换的人类学研究。"赛博格"意译为"控制论有机体",最早是针对宇航员太空生存问题而提出的技术概念,后经挪用而成为一个本体论隐喻。在原理上,赛博格模糊人机二分边界并引发人之主体性反思的根源来自于控制论,即将人理解为信息收发处理终端或信息网络节点。在呈现上,赛博格多呈现为人与物组装拼接而形成的开放结点及联通网络。赛博格隐喻射程之功直至关涉智识生产的范式转换,本文提起中国语境的全球赛博格人类学议题,试述当代赛博格人类学范式之人机主体性的本体论思考与知识论、方法论探索,以及自觉于此的信息化时代之新范式民族志研究。     

内部控制学科体系构建

美国一些知名公司在金融危机中纷纷破产或被收购,凸显了内部控制的重要性.国内外研究文献大多是从制度建设的视角将其视为一种基于财务报告的可靠性、经营活动的效率效果、相关法律法规遵循的应用性的管理制度,没有从学科的角度阐述和解释内部控制.为丰富和发展内部控制理论,有必要从理论基础、学科定位、研究内容、研究方法等方面系统构建内部控制学科体系.     

控制论视域下的粉丝侵权行为归责问题初探

粉丝为了维护偶像的形象和市场利益而发生各种行为,这些行为可能导致对他人权益的侵害。相较一般的民事侵权归责,粉丝行为的侵权责任难以有效归结。如果基于控制论重新梳理粉丝、明星及其所属公司以及网络平台的关系,将他们作为一个系统整体中的组成部分,分析这个系统中粉丝行为控制者与侵权粉丝的关系,厘清控制者与侵权粉丝的法律责任,可以为解决粉丝侵权行为的归责问题提供一个新的路径。     

关于电路网络线性相关结构的讨论

本文运用控制论方法研究了电路网络中的线性相关结构问题,阐述了电路网络中的可约割集和可约回路的概念。讨论了零初始状态的网络状态的线性相关问题,提出了几个具体实例。