The communicative action theory of Habermas has been discussed and used within the research community of Language Action Perspective. The concept of validity claim is considered to be an important contribution. In his theory, Habermas has formulated three validity claims to be universal in communication: The claims for truth, rightness and truthfulness. A theoretical inquiry into the validity c...

The goal of this paper is a reassessment of the Action Workflow approach, a well-known application of the Language Action Perspective (LAP). Based on empirical work, we will assess the Action Workflow approach with reference to its suitability for the modeling of business processes. Three case studies are presented, and the Guidelines of Modeling developed by Becker et al. [Becker et al., 1999]...

Youth gang activity is on the rise again since declining from its peak in the early 2000s. We focus on contagion of youth gang membership and delinquency among adolescents who are at risk to peer pressure by creating an epidemiological model with differential equations. The model seeks to examine dynamics of the system through stability analysis. A tipping point that spreads youth gang activity...

System development, or broadly speaking, software engineering, would introduces risks and bugs as the increase of complexity. Formal specification is researched and developed for several years to constrain the states and transitions. This paper explores the system development with formal specification from the Empirical Modeling perspective, which is a novel approach to computer-based modeling ...

This chapter provides an illustration of how the models and modeling perspective can be used in collegiate mathematics education research and instruction. The models and modeling approach (chapter 1) provides instructional designers with a well-defined structure for creating curriculum. The curricular activities for this approach, referred to as model-eliciting activities (Lesh, Hoover, Hole, K...

How do we manage to step into another person’s shoes and eventually derive the intention behind observed behavior? We propose a connectionist neural network (NN) model that learns self-supervised a prerequisite of this social capability: it adapts its internal perspective in accordance to observed biological motion. The model first learns predictive correlations between proprioceptive motion an...

The object of our investigation is a software architecture for adaptive Service Level Agreement (SLA) management in value chains for service individualization. We address the problem that current SLA management is not capable to represent the full complexity of SLAs existing in real-world service industries. The problem is investigated from a functional-analytical supply chain perspective. The ...

The increasing demands concerning the modifiability and connectivity of business processes cannot be met adequately anymore by relying on best practices only. There is an urgent need for a reference conceptual framework for studying, modeling, analyzing and designing business processes. The Language-Action Perspective (LAP), in particular Habermas’ theory of Communicative Action offers a sound ...

This study was undertaken in partnership with a publicly funded reproductive healthcare organization to better understand barriers to utilization of its services as perceived by low income African American women in its community and how those barriers might be managed. The study uses a place-based, ecological perspective to theorize privacy challenges across different levels of the communicatio...

Collaborative networked organizations (CNOs) are complex entities whose proper understanding, design, implementation, and management require the integration of different modeling perspectives. A large number of modeling tools and theories that have been developed in other disciplines have a potential applicability in this domain. Therefore, an identification of the most promising approaches is ...