Agile Modeling (AM) provides a set of best practices of “lightweight” modeling to support the modeling process on a macro level within the agile development teams. At the core of AM is close collaboration with stakeholders which is similar to participative Enterprise Modeling (EM). Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyze the potential of using EM in agile development projects to addres...

The Future Policy Modelling Project (FUPOL) is a research project funded by the 7 framework program of the European Union. Its research focus are new technologies and methods for e-governance, e-participation and policy modelling. The FUPOL consortium consists of partners from European countries, China and Kenya. and comprises innovative multinational companies, leading research institutes, hig...

Landholders have long used weather and climate information, based on experience and intuition, for planning and decision making on land or crop management. Over recent times, the availability of data bases of historical climatic information and the development of predictive tools ranging from correlation analysis to computer simulation models have made the climatic information useful to a much ...

This paper explores participative Social Information Behavior in the educational domain. The goal is to capture a picture of current information practices in the Social Web. The focus is on the “places” and the scale of the Social Web in the domain, the communication dynamics and structure of communities and the specificities, quality, pragmatics and success of communication processes. The pape...

The interpersonal trust of 296 Brazilian development bankers was related to indicators of cultural modernism, satisfaction with supervisory behaviors, and individual reactions to different organizational climates. Contrary to theories which associate trust with national "culture" or "modernism", the Brazilian bankers scored higher on a four-item trust scale than Peruvian white-collar workers, a...

THEORY regarding patterns of deA X D P R A C T I C E cision-making in libraries have been relatively neglected aspects of library administration. Yet the decisions by which a library attempts to control its operations are of major importance to its welfare and effectiveness. Recent theories in management and social psychology have addressed themselves to the implications of participative manage...

Enterprise modeling is a daunting task to be carried out from a single perspective. A challenge to this whole complexity is conflicting descriptions given by different actors when business processes are documented. Often enterprise modeling takes rounds of iterations and clarification before the models are verified and validated. In order to expedite the modeling process and validity of the mod...