In this paper we draw upon “After-ANT” scholarship to generate openings for a shift from purely deconstructive studies of object organization to a more straightforward generation of concrete and specific alternative trajectories towards the future by way of ontological experimentation. Through careful empirical investigation of a mine and a landfill, and how these are enacted in practice in dif...

Process modeling and enacting concepts are at the center of workflow management. Support for heterogeneous processes, flexibility, reuse, and distribution are great challenges for the design of the next generation process modeling languages and their enactment mechanisms. Furthermore, flexible and collaborative processes depend also on unpredictable changes and hence require human intervention....

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are associated with several types of degenerative dementias, including Alzheimer and prion diseases. Animal models have demonstrated abolition of rapid eye movement atonia, resulting in dream-enacting complex movements termed oneiric behavior, and patients with fatal familial insomnia may have vivid dreams that intrude on wakefulness. OBJECTIVE To describe a new for...

Execution of process models requires a process engine to handle control flow and data dependencies. While control flow is well supported in available activity-oriented process engines, data dependencies have to be specified manually in an error-prone and time-consuming work. In this paper, we present an extension to the process engine Activiti allowing to automatically extract complex data depe...

This paper comprises discussion on the research findings of this study into how apps can be used in the classroom to collaboratively promote construction of mathematical knowledge in children in ways that fundamentally transform the instructional environment. The study results identify how children enact viewing skills through digital texts to acquire new knowledge in their addition and subtrac...

Mallya, Ashok Ullal. Modeling and Enacting Business Processes via Commitment Protocols Among Agents (Under the direction of Professor Munindar P. Singh). Multiagent systems involve a rich variety of interactions among agents–situated computations that are autonomous in their behavior and heterogenous in structure. These interactions can be realized unambiguously if they are governed by publishe...

I describe an approach and mechanisms to support the design and engineering of software production processes throughout their life cycle. I describe what activities are included in the process life cycle. I then describe our approach, computational mechanisms, and experiences in supporting many of these life cycle activities.

Enacting business processes in process engines requires the coverage of control flow, resource assignments, and process data. While the first two aspects are well supported in current process engines, data dependencies need to be added and maintained manually by a process engineer. Thus, this task is error-prone and time-consuming. In this report, we address the problem of modeling processes wi...