Price-driven economic order systems from a thermodynamic point of view
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many researchers have attempted to bridge their fields with others to gain insight into their own, benefiting from the synergies of such processes. As markets have become increasingly more competitive, disorder has become a prevailing characteristic of modern productive systems operating in complex, dynamic and uncertain environments. Some researchers in the discipline of management science/operational research have applied information theory and entropy approaches to account for disorder when modelling the behaviour of productive systems. However, few have applied classical thermodynamics reasoning to modelling such systems. The present paper postulates that the behaviour of production systems very much resembles those of physical systems. Such a parallel suggests that improvements to production systems might be achievable by applying the first and second laws of thermodynamics to reduce system entropy (or disorder). To demonstrate the applicability of these laws, the economic order (production) quantity model is used as an illustrative example.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it