Background: Organizational architecture is a holistic approach to design of humane organizations and studies an organization from five perspectives: structure, culture, procsses, strategy and individuals. In this paper the concept of organizational architecture is firstly formalized using the fractal principle and then applied to multi-agent systems’ (MAS) organizations. Objectives: Providing a...

As buildings become more complex, it becomes more difficult to manage and operate them effectively. The holistic management and maintenance of facilities is a multi-domain problem encompassing financial accounting, building maintenance, human resources, asset management and code compliance, affecting different stakeholders in different ways. One technique, called scenario modelling, customises ...

This study aims at discussing the complex, multi-dimensional issue of the global phenomenon of urbanization. Based on a theoretical review and discussion on the situation of cities, the causes, dimensions and consequences of urban growth the idea is to raise the main questions for future activities to meet this challenge. For it a pragmatic and holistic framework is proposed to systematize the ...

Conceptualization is crucial when developing theories, especially when adopting a Grounded Theory approach. Based on the Multi-Grounded Theory approach, which is an extension and modification of Grounded Theory, a procedure for holistic conceptual determination is presented, which consists of the following steps: Determination of content, ontological position, context, functions, origin and eme...

The paper presents a multi-facet methodology for interactive software creation which melts holistic, participatory, meta-design approaches to obtain usable, coevolutive domain specific applications. The proposed methodology is based on the definition of three Interaction Languages, each one permitting to express the conceptual model of a Visual Interactive System in the system of signs of the s...

We believe a holistic approach to problems in childhood and adolescence will benefit the child, adolescent, and the whole family. As a rule, children have far less to say in the family than their parents. Therefore, it is the parents who set the agenda and decide how things are done at home and in relation to the child. Most often, it is also the parents who have a problem when the child is not...

The holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, holistic medicine--giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and l...

This chapter presents a process modeling approach for holistic process management. The main idea is that domain specific process models are required both to capture the contents of a process based application and to present a process model in a user friendly way. We presents how perspective oriented process modeling supports domain specific process model. Besides we describe how this approach c...

An important new class of communication-oriented applications are described as multi-party interactive multimedia applications. In this paper, we examine the programming abstractions, system support and communication services required by these applications; evaluate existing support; and propose strategies for improving support by combining current systems with new designs. We have taken a holi...