In recent decades, new methodologies have emerged in architectural design that exploit the computer as a design tool.This has generated a varied set of digital skills and a new type of architectural knowledge. However, up to now, a theoretical framework is missing that would allow for a comprehensive pedagogical agenda for the teaching of digital design in architecture.The present paper offers ...

Domain-specific programming languages (DSLs) are emerging as an important paradigm for the engineering of large reliable software systems. Modular interpreters are an approach to building off-the-shelf software components that implement fragments of DSLs. We describe an approach to implementing modular interpreters in an object-oriented fashion, using the design pattern of extensible computatio...

Research on IT infrastructure investments and organizational productivity has been marked with ambiguity, evidenced by the much debated productivity paradox. Part of the ambiguity arises from a paradigmatic aggregated treatment of IT infrastructure and productivity constructs along with a disregard for contingencies and time lags. The focus in this paper is to extend the component based view to...

Exploration of the clinical literature shows an awareness that an infant's experience as a selfobject often is traumatic, but if there is an experience of mutuality, the trauma might be avoided. Where such mutuality does not occur, an infant's experience of constantly repairing a depressed parent, or of being blamed, abused or having an identity imposed by a parent, leads to exhaustion and/or t...