For medical students, virtual patient dialogue systems can provide useful training opportunities without the cost of employing actors to portray standardized patients. This work utilizes wordand character-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for question identification in a virtual patient dialogue system, outperforming a strong wordand characterbased logistic regression baseline. While t...

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This paper looks at the organising of work, as in who does what, when and how. We explore the relationship between work as situated action on the one hand and unfolding within the confines of stable social structures on the other. Being an underdeveloped topic of research, we analyse how more stable structures of work are being produced. By conceptualising the organising of work as a special ca...

This essay asks what firms are, whether they are ‘real’ social actors, and whether their actions can be traced without remainder to the actions of living people or whether there is some irreducible aspect of their existence or operation that must be attributed to the organization itself. It describes firms as ongoing, multilateral relational contracts from whose operation – that is, from perfor...

Internet technology with its standards of exchange has been regarded as a method to reduce the amount of communication interfaces among the partners in supply chains. Since enterprises have a huge amount of relationships to partners fulfilling various tasks and business processes, the usage of the internet and its standards can hardly be considered to be the same interface for each actor. In fa...