For Generation Y, success was and often still is about getting ahead in male-dominated, hierarchical systems.
Software systems built on Web standards, he said, can be used as pick-and-place building blocks, instead of the more formal hierarchical systems of the past.
He was acknowledged at the awards ceremony for his influential research enabling new multiscale models in hierarchical systems.
The Ptolemy project addresses the design, simulation and implementation of heterogeneous hierarchical systems.
We focus on social interventions because we believe they can affect both formal hierarchical systems like school systems and complex nonlinear systems like cultures.
Hierarchical systems depend on keeping people in their "place". And for the majority, being in place means a priori not having a go.
Established in 1946, the NHS is an enormous, government-run institution that employs more than a million people in hundreds of units and divisions with deeply rooted, bureaucratic, hierarchical systems.
But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way that other hierarchical systems have been blown apart in the Internet age.
The region's economy was primarily agricultural and often supported social stratification; as chiefdoms, most cultures were structured around hereditary classes of elites and commoners, although some groups used hierarchical systems that had additional status levels.
This paper compares two methods for modeling karst aquifers, which are heterogeneous, highly non-linear, and hierarchical systems.
Our approach addresses the issue of combining the discipline of hierarchical systems with the agility of multi-agent systems.
