This paper presents observations and analysis of an activity of reification of professional practices within a community of practice. A case is examined of a distance community of tutors using a semantic Wiki for formalising their practices and a tool for storing and classifying documents. On the basis of the instrumental genesis theory, the author highlights the process of appropriation of the...

Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership has right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse narrative analyses, investigates specifically how negotiation meaning visible in often incomplete fragmented but naturally-occurring points discursive struggle over...

We propose and solve a negotiation model of multiple players facing many alternative solutions. The can be generalized to relevant circumstances where stakeholders’ interests partially overlap oppose. also show that the mapped into well-known directed percolation polymers problems. Moreover, statistical mechanics tools, such as Replica method, fruitfully employed. Studying our enlighten links b...

Research in L1 writing has found numerous benefits of employing collaborative learning in the classroom. The research findings on group work provide clear evidence that engaging learners in group activities increases opportunities for students to engage in the negotiation of meaning, which further leads to better acquisition. The present study, implementing two different collaborative feedback ...

One of the major challenges in cloud computing is the development of a service-level agreement (SLA) negotiation framework using an intelligent third-party broker negotiation strategy. Current frameworks exploit various negotiation strategies using game theoretic, heuristic, and argumentation-based approaches for obtaining optimal negotiation with a better success rate (negotiation commitment)....