In this short technical note we show how PADL – the process algebraic architectural description language of Bernardo, Ciancarini and Donatiello – can be used to specify AFrames. AFrames exist to structure the machine in a Problem Frames development, and are important in that framework as they allow architectural expertise to be captured and reused therein. Because of the close proximity of PADL...

Social scientists have long theorized about &dquo;mass society&dquo; and &dquo;mass culture&dquo; and, generally, are appalled by the frightening images brought to mind by these concepts. A wide-ranging debate over their validity, a concern about the &dquo;functions&dquo; of the mass media in modern society, and their &dquo;effects&dquo; on the general public have been major subjects of mass co...

During the last half decade, various theories, concepts, and models have been established to make organizations more environmentally sustainable. The IS community had their share with the Green IS/IT domain. As it turned out most of these concepts took a very functional approach, not making a good fit for business process oriented organizations. To fill this gap the research stream of Green Bus...

Within organisations, business processes are increasingly captured and supported through socio-technical systems, which incorporate both people and technologies. In today's rapidly changing marketplace, such business processes are more and more complex and volatile, and so are the requirements for their supporting systems. In this paper we consider change in organisations, and proposed novel te...

Currently, literature on organizational boundaries is at the center of a heated debate, characterized by a shift from a transactional approach to a broader immaterial perspective centered on the concept of boundless organizations. However, the overestimation of the effects of contemporary dematerialization on business processes can lead to the progressive neglect of the existence of corporate b...

We show that the increments of generalized Wiener process, useful to describe nonGaussian white noise sources, have the properties of infinitely divisible random processes. Using functional approach and the new correlation formula for non-Gaussian white noise we derive directly from Langevin equation, with such a random source, the Kolmogorov’s equation for Markovian non-Gaussian process. From ...

This paper studies equilibrium selection based on a class of perfect foresight dynamics and relates it to the notion of p-dominance. A continuum of rational players are repeatedly and randomly matched to play a symmetric n × n game. There are frictions: opportunities to revise actions follow independent Poisson processes. The dynamics has stationary states, each of which corresponds to a Nash e...