Computational social science methodologies are increasingly being viewed as critical for modeling complex individual and organizational behaviors in dynamic, real world scenarios. However, many challenges for identifying, representing and incorporating appropriate socio-cultural behaviors remain. Social theories provide rules, which have strong theoretic underpinnings and have been empirically ...

This article is concerned with the engineering of societal information systems where technical components of a system software agents support the social network around which the system is centered. By software agent, we mean an autonomous software entity that can act in the system, perceive events and reason [1]. In information systems, software agents work on behalf of their owners in order to...

Recently, the Hungarian Geographical Bulletin – that had been a forum for introducing empirically focused papers covering various social and physical geographical issues for decades – became engaged increasingly in academic discourses on socio-spatial inequalities, embracing various approaches and problems with diff erent scalar foci. The theoretical and methodological diversity that ranged fro...

Knowledge management professionals are consistently presented with the challenges of socio-technical initiatives when it comes to enhancing, sharing, and utilizing knowledge and information in corporate, scholarly, and professional applications.Socio-Technical Knowledge Management: Studies and Initiatives connects knowledge management theory to knowledge management practice, allowing the empiri...

The research presents an elaborated mapping of common social problems in Azerbaijan across country’s regions. Using a survey dataset 2161 respondents representing various socio-demographic categories the population, study borrows two-stage approach to identify “common” country. Primary findings are (1) "top 5" list includes inflation, unemployment, corruption, state education and health, povert...

Introduction: This study was conducted to compare 10 American countries for the association between self-reported physician diagnosis of heart disease and subjective health above and beyond the effect of socio-economic factors. Methods: With a cross-sectional design, this study used data from Research on Early Life and Aging Trends and Effects (RELATE). T...

Electronic workflow facilitates transactions between systems and enterprises. In this paper we employ socio-cognitive theory and technologies in the context of an agent-based workflow engine to facilitate partner selection and build trust among electronic workflow participants. These elements form useful and effective additions to the workflow context, by capturing business policy aspects. We p...