Search for dissertations about: "World-Systems analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words World-Systems analysis.
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1. Orienting West Mexico: The Mesoamerican World System 200-1200 CE
Abstract : As world-systems theory came to the fore in archaeology during the 1980s and 1990s, it became evident that the analysis of pre-capitalist core/periphery relations required modifications of this theory for its further use in the discipline. As a result, the comparative approach for world-systems analysis (Chase-Dunn and Hall 1997) discerned four interaction networks that defined pre-capitalist world-systems. READ MORE
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2. Hierarchical Concurrent Systems from a Model-Oriented perspective
Abstract : Real world systems are normally considered as hierarchically organized, for example, we see those as hierarchies of systems including subsystems. Examples on this can be seen in organizations where people act in environments and carry within themselves their own internal subsystem of thinking processes. READ MORE
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3. Efficient Analysis of Discrete Event Systems: Supervisor Synthesis with Binary Decision Diagrams
Abstract : Due to the ever-increasing complexity of software and hardware, it is becoming more and more important to develop methods and tools for automatic analysis and synthesis of systems. One obstacle in achieving this goal has been the unmanageable size and complexity of the involved mathematical operations. READ MORE
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4. Impact of High Levels of Variable Renewable Energy on Power System Generation Adequacy : Methods for analyzing and ensuring the generation adequacy of modern, multi-area power systems
Abstract : The generation adequacy of electricity supply has been an ongoing concern since the restructuring of the industry. Ensuring generation adequacy was a rather straightforward task in the era of natural monopolies. READ MORE
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5. Perturbed Markov Chains with Damping Component and Information Networks
Abstract : This thesis brings together three thematic topics, PageRank of evolving tree graphs, stopping criteria for ranks and perturbed Markov chains with damping component. The commonality in these topics is their focus on ranking problems in information networks. READ MORE