Over the last decade companies have struggled to balance the human dimension of business with the need to be aggressive, competitive, and profitable. Of all the management solutions considered, one philosophy, open-book management, has proven its power to transform organizations and enhance morale and productivity again and again.But what was it about a seemingly risky philosophy, in which all of a company's financial numbers are revealed to every employee, that compelled companies as dissimilar as multibillion-dollar RR Donnelley and modest-sized Crisp publications, to undertake such a...
Over the last decade companies have struggled to balance the human dimension of business with the need to be aggressive, competitive, and profitable. ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2004, held in Padova, Italy in October 2004.
The 29 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 3 tutorial summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on inductive inference, PAC learning and boosting, statistical supervised learning, online sequence learning, approximate optimization algorithms, logic based learning, and query and reinforcement learning.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2004, held in Padova, Italy...