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188 articles · Published by MARIA OS
Eight papers that form the complete theory-to-operations stack: why organizational judgment needs an OS, structural design, stability laws, algorithm architecture, mission-constrained optimization, survival optimization, workforce transition, and agent lifecycle management.
Series Thesis
Company Intelligence explains why the OS exists. Structure defines responsibility. Stability laws prove when governance holds. Algorithms make it executable. Mission constraints keep optimization aligned. Survival theory determines evolutionary direction. White-collar transition shows who moves first. VITAL keeps the whole system alive.
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Company Intelligence
Why organizational judgment needs an operating system, not just AI tools.
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Company Intelligence
Why organizational judgment needs an operating system, not just AI tools.
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Structural Design
How to decompose responsibility across human-agent boundaries.
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Stability Laws
Mathematical conditions under which agentic governance holds or breaks.
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Algorithm Stack
10 algorithms mapped to a 7-layer architecture for agentic organizations.
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Mission Constraints
How to optimize agent goals without eroding organizational values.
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Survival Optimization
Does evolutionary pressure reduce organizations to pure survival machines? The math of directed vs. undirected evolution.
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Workforce Transition
Which white-collar workflows move first, and how fast the shift happens.
From Claude Bernard's milieu intérieur to allostasis — how closed-loop control sustains every living thing
Homeostasis — the maintenance of stable internal conditions despite external perturbation — is life's foundational operating system. This article traces the concept from its nineteenth-century origins through modern control theory and allostasis, connecting it to MARIA VITAL's 4-layer implementation architecture.
Latent governance density, observable metacognitive coverage, and the stability bounds of self-governing enterprises
We formalize an agentic company as a graph-augmented constrained Markov decision process G_t = (A_t, E_t, S_t, Pi_t, R_t, D_t), distinguish latent governance density D_t from observable constrained-candidate coverage D_hat_t on router-generated Top-K actions, and define damping via kappa_t = kappa(D_hat_t). The exact local contraction condition is (1 - kappa_t) lambda_max(W_t) < 1, while the buffered operating envelope lambda_max(W_t) < 1 - kappa_t preserves adaptation headroom. Governance constraints thereby function as organizational metacognition: each constraint is a point where the system observes its own behavior. Planet-100 simulations validate that buffered role specialization emerges in the intermediate governance regime.
A formal dynamical-systems treatment of human-AI interaction stability and how metacognitive control helps reduce capability decay and trust instability
We model the human-AI interaction loop as a coupled dynamical system `X_t = (H_t, A_t)` and analyze stability under metacognition-mediated control through spectral-radius conditions on the coupled Jacobian. Simulations across 1,000 trajectories report 94.2% trust-band stability and 87.6% capability preservation versus uncontrolled baselines.
Evaluating power grid decision stability through Lyapunov energy functions and responsibility-gated load balancing
Power grids can operate near stability limits, where dispatch errors or delayed interventions may trigger cascading disruptions. This paper introduces a Lyapunov-based decision-stability score for energy-grid AI agents, providing formal criteria for when autonomous grid-management actions remain within stable operating regions.
A control-theoretic framework for gate design where smarter AI needs smarter stopping, not simply more stopping
Enterprise governance often assumes that more gates automatically mean more safety. This paper analyzes why that assumption can fail. We model gates as delayed binary controllers with feedback loops and derive stability conditions: serial delay should remain within the decision-relevance window, and feedback-loop gain should satisfy `kK < 1` to avoid over-correction oscillation. Safety is therefore not monotonic in gate count; it depends on delay-budget management, loop-gain control, and bounded recovery cycles.
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188 articles
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