In this article we present the preliminary operationalization of the Project’s Information System (PRIS) with the help of Gareis’s (1996) “New Management Paradigm“. PRIS is project group’s own information system, which is tightly connected to the Project-Oriented Company’s (POC) ISs. In order to reveal the POC environment’s characteristics, we present a case study of the process of procurement ...

Goals are central to the design and implementation of intelligent software agents. Much of the literature on goals and reasoning about goals in agent programming frameworks only deals with a limited set of goal types, typically achievement goals, and sometimes maintenance goals. In this paper we extend a previously proposed unifying framework for goals with additional richer goal types that are...

To study a phenomenon scientifically, it must be appropriately described and measured. How mindfulness is conceptualized and assessed has considerable importance for mindfulness science, and perhaps in part because of this, these two issues have been among the most contentious in the field. In recognition of the growing scientific and clinical interest in

Several investigations of American evangelicalism have been conducted in recent decades, yet they conceptualize evangelicalism in different ways. It is not surprising, therefore, that different profiles of the evangelical movement and its adherents emerge from these studies. This research reviews major studies on the subject undertaken since 1976, when evangelicals first attracted national atte...

Much attention in the field of machine learning has been directed at the problem of inferring concept descriptions from examples. But in many learning situations, we are initrally presented with a fully-formed concept description, and our goal IS instead to re-express that description with some particular task in mind. In this paper, we specifjcally consider the task of recognizing concept inst...

The work presented in this paper deals with the integration of heavyweight ontologies into Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). We claim that such ontologies have to be built at the conceptual level, and that their use in a KBS requires an operationalization step, that consists in transcribing the ontology in an operational knowledge representation language according to a given scenario of use. For t...

The purpose of the study is to operationalize concept “quality higher educationˮ in sociological discourse. methodological basis research represented by modern theories, within framework which understanding problems education development carried out.   Research results. social and scientific relevance stated problem determined, signs quality are identified, its resources (social, material,...