Evolutionary theory discusses the exits of organizations from environments that they do not fit, but most work underemphasizes the distinction between business acquisition and dissolution as selection processes. We address this gap by investigating how the presence of organizational capabilities affects whether struggling firms exit by acquisition or dissolution. The study, which bridges adapta...

This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and enables practitioners researchers to better understand the operational aspects of processes. It also a critical reflection on as multifaceted discipline.

This memorandum reviews the factors that constitute an Expert System Building Tool (ESBT) and evaluates current tools in terms of these factors. Evaluation of these tools is based on their structure and their alternative forms of knowledge representation, inference mechanisms , and developer/end-user interfaces. Next, functional capabilities, such as diagnosis and design, are related to alterna...

ECAs ought to be entities endowed with dialogic and expressive capabilities. They are used in interactive systems in which they can communicate with users. Being involved in a communicative process implies to perceive signs displayed by the other interactants and to emit signs. ECAs ought to have qualities over two main computational domains: perception and generation. We consider another domai...

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) combines rich optical absorption contrast with the high spatial resolution of ultrasound at depths in tissue. The high scalability of PAT has enabled anatomical imaging of biological structures ranging from organelles to organs. The inherent functional and molecular imaging capabilities of PAT have further allowed it to measure important physiological parameters a...