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Social-Psychological Harmonic Oscillators in the Self-regulation of Organizations and Systems

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We propose ab initio the existence of social-psychological harmonic oscillators (SPHO) acting computationally in the minds of an intelligent audience that a self-regulated collective exploits to solve problems, resolve complex issues, or entertain itself. Using computational intelligence, our ultimate goal is to self-regulate systems composed of humans, machines and robots. We conclude in an overview that self-regulation, characterized by our solution of the nonlinear tradeoffs between Fourier pairs of Gaussian distributions, affects decision-making differently for organizations and systems: When set inside of a democracy to solve well-defined problems, optimum performance requires command decision-making along with maximum cooperation among an organization’s multitaskers (few challenges maximize oscillations); but, to solve ill-defined problems across a system requires maximum competition among participants and organizations (challenges minimize oscillations).

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  1. Paine College, 1235 15th Street, Augusta, Georgia, USA

    William F. Lawless

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC, USA

    Donald A. Sofge

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  1. Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

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  2. Conservatoire National des Arts et M’etiers, 75003, Paris, France

    François Dubois

  3. Paris School of Economics, 75014, Paris, France

    Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky

  4. University of Padua, 35131, Padua, Italy

    Massimo Melucci

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Lawless, W.F., Sofge, D.A. (2012). Social-Psychological Harmonic Oscillators in the Self-regulation of Organizations and Systems. In: Busemeyer, J.R., Dubois, F., Lambert-Mogiliansky, A., Melucci, M. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35659-9_21

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