Performing temporal processes

Performing strategy: Aligning processes in strategic IT

Alignment is perceived to be a desirable aim in IT projects – by improving the fit between the technology and the aims of the organization. Our study departs from previous literature by looking at this issue as a more dynamic and contextually localized phenomenon – emphasizing this dynamic quality by the use of the term “aligning”. We take a performative view by conceptualizing the doing of str...

Point processes , spatial – temporal

Performing the Common Recognition in Online Participatory Processes

How can e-participation be understood? New information communication technologies (ICT) create new types of public spheres, while old social hierarchies prevail. Grounds for discrimination e.g. gender, age, and ethnicity, are just as common online as in other social contexts. Moreover, socio-economic inequalities are emphasized rather than reduced. Therefore it is important to carefully investi...

Designing and Performing Geographic Analysis Processes with GISCASE

This work presents GISCASE, an UML CASE tool based on the conceptual framework GeoFrame-A to aid GIS users to model their geographical analysis processes. Starting from a graphical specification of the geographic process, the tool generates an XML intermediate code free of platform and then creates the specific programs for a GIS system. In addition, GISCASE is entirely developed using free sof...

COMAS: A Multi-agent System for Performing Consensus Processes

The need for achieving consensus in group decision making problems is a common and sometimes necessary task in a myriad of social and business environments. Different consensus reaching processes have been proposed in the literature to achieve agreement among a group of experts. Initially, such processes were guided by a human moderator, but afterwards, some proposals to facilitate such a proce...