Entropy and Organizational Performance

Neves, José; Maia, N. M. M.; Marreiros, Goreti; Neves, Mariana; Fernandes, Ana; Ribeiro, Jorge; Araújo, Isabel; Araújo, Nuno; Ávidos, Liliana; Ferraz, Filipa; Capita, António; Lori, Nicolás F.; Alves, Victor; Vicente, Henrique

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29859-3_18

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“…The corresponding logical program for the Best-case scenario is now given as Program 1, below [8,9,10]. where the assessment of PE and QoI for the various elements forming the CMQ -4 are given in the form, viz.…”

Section: Cmq−4: Exergy Vagueness Anergy Systemmentioning

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An Assessment of the Psychometric Evidence from Household Work Satisfaction of Women

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Machado²,

Araújo³

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Psychometrics has been understood as the branch of psychology that deals with the design, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, personality traits. On the other hand, a focus in the literature on determinants of women's health is the cost and benefit of occupying multiple roles as employee, spouse, and mother, yet little attention has been given to the work and home characteristics of different roles for women in paid and unpaid work. The impact of workhome factors on socio-economic gradients in health has also tended to be overlooked. This paper assesses the contribution of workhome factors on socio-economic differences in psychological distress among women. Once the few tools available to measure the Quality of Household Work (QoHW) roles do not include psychometric evidence [1], a new instrument to assess all aspects of the QoHW and to prove its validity and reliability is of paramount importance. QoHW measures initially operated at the quantitative level, specifically measuring the amount of time spent in a role and the number of roles women have, and none to evaluate their degree of satisfaction. The present work seeks to close this gap by introducing an Artificial Intelligence based computer environment that being built according to a cognitive interpretation of the Theory of Coherence [2,3], enables the processing of a series of questionnaires on a range of HW topics that pinpoint those the women may enjoy to accomplish and the level of satisfaction with what they are doing [2].

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Section: Cmq−4: Exergy Vagueness Anergy Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Assessment of the Psychometric Evidence from Household Work Satisfaction of Women

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Machado²,

Araújo³

et al. 2022

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“…On the other hand, clauses of the type ? (p 1 , .. , p n , not q 1 , .., not q n )n, m ≥ 0 are Integrity Constraints (ICs) (or invariants) that make it possible to specify the context under which the universe of discourse should be understood [15,17].…”

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“…With this in mind, an energy degradation process can be defined under a proper tangible background. Indeed, the problem-solving methodology presented and discussed in this article is based on this perception and aims to describe the practices of KRR as a process of energy degradation [17,18,19]. In order to explain the basic rules of the proposed approach, the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics are considered, attending that one's system moves from state to state over time.…”

Section: A Thermodynamics Approach To Knowledge Representation and Re...mentioning

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“…These terms refer to all possible processes as pure energy transfer and consumption practices [17,18,19].…”

Section: A Thermodynamics Approach To Knowledge Representation and Re...mentioning

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“…In this subsection a mathematical logical program is presented that considers the perception of the employee with respect to a particular subject (individual opinions about the satisfaction with the safety procedures) in order to evaluated the organization as a whole (Programs 4 and 5). This framework provides the basis for a symbolic assessment of the level of employees' satisfaction of an organization, plus a measure of its sustainability (QoI), i.e., a set of truth values that range in the interval 0 ... 1 [17,23].…”

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The actual COVID-19 pandemic crisis brought new challenges for all companies, forcing them to adapt new working methods in order to avert/minimize infection. Monitoring employee satisfaction is a very difficult task, but one that is paramount in the current pandemic crisis. To respond to this challenge, a workable problem-solving methodology had to be developed and tested that examined the dynamics between Artificial Intelligence, Logic Programming, and Entropy for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Such formalisms are in line with an Artificial Neural Network approach to computing, where the ultimate goal is to assess the satisfaction of employees in Water Analysis Laboratories while considering its development and management. The model was trained and tested with real world data collected through questionnaires that had an overall accuracy of greater than 90%.

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A Thermodynamic Assessment of the Cyber Security Risk in Healthcare Facilities

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Over the last decades a number of guidelines have been proposed for best practices, frameworks, and cyber risk assessment in present computational environments. In order to improve cyber security vulnerability, in this work it is proposed and characterized a feasible methodology for problem solving that allows for the evaluation of cyber security in terms of an estimation of its entropic state, i.e., a predictive evaluation of its risk and vulnerabilities, or in other words, the cyber security level of such ecosystem. The analysis and development of such a model is based on a line of logical formalisms for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, consistent with an Artificial Neural Networks approach to computing, a model that considers the cause behind the action.

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Entropy and Organizational Performance

Cited by 22 publications

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An Assessment of the Psychometric Evidence from Household Work Satisfaction of Women

An Assessment of the Psychometric Evidence from Household Work Satisfaction of Women

Assessing Employee Satisfaction in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic

A Thermodynamic Assessment of the Cyber Security Risk in Healthcare Facilities

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