This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic ... more This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic seaports, taking into account various economic indicators and addressing investment planning and management issues. Special attention is given to the sustainable development goals and objectives of the seaports, considering their significance in transport and logistics systems. The primary objective of this work is to develop a system approach for conducting multi-criteria studies on seaport performance efficiency. The findings obtained through the proposed methodology consider criteria at different levels of seaport management, offering valuable practical implications. Notably, this study fills a gap in the literature as no previous work has provided a comprehensive methodology for studying and analyzing ports from the perspectives of management, logistics, and macroeconomics. The system approach can also incorporate environmental considerations and innovative solutions in port infrast...
Abstract: We are living in an era of Scientific Enlightenment in which an incredibly instantaneou... more Abstract: We are living in an era of Scientific Enlightenment in which an incredibly instantaneous technological development is changing everything in our life. At this point, past decades of scientific and digital era have produced great comforts of life and easy access to knowledge. Today, there is an alarming call, "The Robots are coming! Artificial Intelligence is coming!" No doubt, science produces greater knowledge, enhances our understanding of the natural world and the universe, but the important point is, does it help enhance our wisdom which is more important than knowledge? We know that without wisdom human beings do not know how to use ethically scientific developed instruments for the benefit of mankind. Thus the crucial questions before us are: Can science help us to become wiser? Can artificial intelligence create or help us receive or discover wisdom? Can future super-computer be equipped with a wisdom chip to propound spontaneously and wisely as an incomputable and unpredictable situation demands? Scientists working on artificial intelligence are discovering to equip the digital computers with a brain performing as good as human brain. It seems possible scientists may discover a way or a process of uploading human mind with all that exists in an individual's brain, such as, memory, perception, emotion, experience, wisdom and consciousness, as an artificial neural network or mind-transfer from a biological brain to a computational device. Some scientists believe that theoretically it would be possible that a person's brain can be scanned, mapped, and its activities transferred to a computer hard drive. If this process becomes practicable, computers would be able to respond in the same way as the original human brain. But a technological prospect of wisdom is not is still utopian, as human brain is not a digital computer but a highly sophisticated neural network. Its neural networks are collections of hundred billions of neurons that constantly rewire and reinforce themselves after accomplishing a new task. The biological brain's neural network requires no programming which is parallel with a hundred billion neurons firing instantly to accomplish a single task to learn and to create something new. A digital computer has a fixed architecture having a devised operating system based on input, output, and processor. Thus the crucial questions before us are: Can artificial intelligence create or help us receive or discover wisdom? Can future super-computer be equipped with a wisdom chip to propound spontaneously and wisely as an incomputable and unpredictable situation demands?
One keystone in the evolution of sustainable transport solutions is the considering of the green ... more One keystone in the evolution of sustainable transport solutions is the considering of the green transport corridor concept with its transnational and multimodal character and the involvement of the heterogeneous group of stakeholders that require multi-level approaches in the phases of implementation, management and governance.
Developments in digitalization are in actual scientific discussion with leading focus on the auto... more Developments in digitalization are in actual scientific discussion with leading focus on the automatizing of tasks especially in managers´ decision making, but also cover the view on the daily managerial task-fulfilment with digitalized solutions. Challenge for the managers is hereby the design of the digitalized work in a human-task-technology system by using advanced working models, methods and solutions. This compels to rethink causal-deterministic approaches and find new solutions, which especially occur in tasks of the strategic management. The purpose of this study was twofold. The first target was to identify and analyse the models and characteristics of strategic management decisions using approaches of the system theory, cybernetic management, and quantum theory. The second aim was to outline a framework of design parameters for creating causal-deterministic and holistic approaches in complex and complementary decision situations, so that they can be designed and processed ...
This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic ... more This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic seaports, taking into account various economic indicators and addressing investment planning and management issues. Special attention is given to the sustainable development goals and objectives of the seaports, considering their significance in transport and logistics systems. The primary objective of this work is to develop a system approach for conducting multi-criteria studies on seaport performance efficiency. The findings obtained through the proposed methodology consider criteria at different levels of seaport management, offering valuable practical implications. Notably, this study fills a gap in the literature as no previous work has provided a comprehensive methodology for studying and analyzing ports from the perspectives of management, logistics, and macroeconomics. The system approach can also incorporate environmental considerations and innovative solutions in port infrast...
Abstract: We are living in an era of Scientific Enlightenment in which an incredibly instantaneou... more Abstract: We are living in an era of Scientific Enlightenment in which an incredibly instantaneous technological development is changing everything in our life. At this point, past decades of scientific and digital era have produced great comforts of life and easy access to knowledge. Today, there is an alarming call, "The Robots are coming! Artificial Intelligence is coming!" No doubt, science produces greater knowledge, enhances our understanding of the natural world and the universe, but the important point is, does it help enhance our wisdom which is more important than knowledge? We know that without wisdom human beings do not know how to use ethically scientific developed instruments for the benefit of mankind. Thus the crucial questions before us are: Can science help us to become wiser? Can artificial intelligence create or help us receive or discover wisdom? Can future super-computer be equipped with a wisdom chip to propound spontaneously and wisely as an incomputable and unpredictable situation demands? Scientists working on artificial intelligence are discovering to equip the digital computers with a brain performing as good as human brain. It seems possible scientists may discover a way or a process of uploading human mind with all that exists in an individual's brain, such as, memory, perception, emotion, experience, wisdom and consciousness, as an artificial neural network or mind-transfer from a biological brain to a computational device. Some scientists believe that theoretically it would be possible that a person's brain can be scanned, mapped, and its activities transferred to a computer hard drive. If this process becomes practicable, computers would be able to respond in the same way as the original human brain. But a technological prospect of wisdom is not is still utopian, as human brain is not a digital computer but a highly sophisticated neural network. Its neural networks are collections of hundred billions of neurons that constantly rewire and reinforce themselves after accomplishing a new task. The biological brain's neural network requires no programming which is parallel with a hundred billion neurons firing instantly to accomplish a single task to learn and to create something new. A digital computer has a fixed architecture having a devised operating system based on input, output, and processor. Thus the crucial questions before us are: Can artificial intelligence create or help us receive or discover wisdom? Can future super-computer be equipped with a wisdom chip to propound spontaneously and wisely as an incomputable and unpredictable situation demands?
One keystone in the evolution of sustainable transport solutions is the considering of the green ... more One keystone in the evolution of sustainable transport solutions is the considering of the green transport corridor concept with its transnational and multimodal character and the involvement of the heterogeneous group of stakeholders that require multi-level approaches in the phases of implementation, management and governance.
Developments in digitalization are in actual scientific discussion with leading focus on the auto... more Developments in digitalization are in actual scientific discussion with leading focus on the automatizing of tasks especially in managers´ decision making, but also cover the view on the daily managerial task-fulfilment with digitalized solutions. Challenge for the managers is hereby the design of the digitalized work in a human-task-technology system by using advanced working models, methods and solutions. This compels to rethink causal-deterministic approaches and find new solutions, which especially occur in tasks of the strategic management. The purpose of this study was twofold. The first target was to identify and analyse the models and characteristics of strategic management decisions using approaches of the system theory, cybernetic management, and quantum theory. The second aim was to outline a framework of design parameters for creating causal-deterministic and holistic approaches in complex and complementary decision situations, so that they can be designed and processed ...
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