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While the specification languages of workflow management systems focus on process execution semantics, the successful development of workflows relies on a fuller conceptualisation of business processing, including process semantics. Traditionally, the success of conceptual modelling techniques has depended largely on the adequacy of certain requirements: conceptualisation (following the Concept...

In this paper, the question is addressed which patterns in world dynamics are an indication for a conceptualisation of a world’s process as an agent. Six criteria are discussed that provide an indication for the world to show a form agency, and allows for suitable agent-based conceptualisation. The criteria take the form of relationships between the occurrence of certain patterns in the world’s...

This paper describes a novel language processing approach to the analysis of creativity and the development of a machine-readable ontology of creativity. The ontology provides a conceptualisation of creativity in terms of a set of fourteen key components or building blocks and has application to research into the nature of creativity in general and to the evaluation of creative practice, in par...