Chaos, Complexity, and Education

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Decision makers of today routinely encounter increasingly complex and interrelated problems, preceding the necessity for a large number of significant decisions to be dynamic in nature. Frequently rather than a single decision the requirement of a number of decisions exists, conventionally being interdependent on each…

In this paper, a dynamic model-based management consultancy project carried out for a major insurance company in Turkey is presented. The objective of the project was to address certain strategic managerial problems of the company by using systemic dynamic simulation. The main strategic problem of concern was that the…

This chapter examines how organizations act as self-adapting, complex systems, and how they manage to creatively maintain their existence on the edge of chaos, foster complexity, and renew themselves. The overall shift in academic thought that has given rise to these theories, and this terminology is also examined, wi…

• NİHAN POTAS
• ŞUAY NİLHAN AÇIKALIN

Why do individuals come to live (to move) together, to organize? Here, we propose that organization is a reflection of the physics reality (bio and nonbio) that it takes less power (useful energy, fuel, food, and exergy) to move 1 unit of mass in bulk than to move 1 unit individually. The objective of this work is to…

• BAHRİ ŞAHİN
• ÜMİT GÜNEŞ

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Internal and external environment where operating continues their activities have a changeable structure continuously. It is stated that operating has to adapt to this structure which causes unexpected, undesirable and sudden results. How operatings behave during this period is stated in chaos-complexity theory. Thus,…

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• ŞUAY NİLHAN AÇIKALIN

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• NURİ GÖKHAN TORLAK

In recent years, postmodernism and complexity have been discussed intensively in the social sciences. Postmodernism, as a concept, has been widely discussed from the organization theory perspective. It’s expected that complexity theory will make important contributions to the organization research. In this study, post…

• ERKAN ERDEMİR

This study revisits the fuzzy control system design problem with the motto “Fuzzy with Conventional Control,” inspired by L.A. Zadeh’s statement in the famous debate “Some Crisp Thoughts on the Fuzzy versus Conventional Control.” Focused on single-input (SI) fuzzy PIDs (FPIDs), our approach synergizes fuzzy and conven…

• TUFAN KUMBASAR

The human is a social being and survives as the part of a group in every field of life from the birth. Group is a community consisting of one or more individuals who interact with each other in order to accomplish a certain goal. The groups are created formally and informally within the organization at different times…