Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-associated organizational change have appeared in the IS literature. A central task in developing such theories is to uncover the generative mechanisms by which IT is implicated in organizational change processes, but to do so, we must explain how critical realism’s concept of generative mechanisms applies in ...

Many recent generative models make use of neural networks to transform the probability distribution of a simple low-dimensional noise process into the complex distribution of the data. This raises the question of whether biological networks operate along similar principles to implement a probabilistic model of the environment through transformations of intrinsic noise processes. The intrinsic n...

Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative generative 3D virtual world available to a general Internet audience. The goal of the Nerve Garden project is to create a virtual terrarium that exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem. The resulting exploration of Artificial Life principles in a shared virtual world yields valuab...

Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative generative 3D virtual world available to a general Interact audience. The goal of the Nerve Garden project is to create a virtual terrarium that exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem. The resulting exploration of Artificial Life principles in a shared virtual world yields valuab...

While the generative view of language processing builds bigger units out of smaller ones by means of rewriting steps, the axiomatic view eliminates invalid linguistic structures out of a set of possible structures by means of wellformedness principles. We present a generator based on the axiomatic view and argue that when combined with a TAG-like grammar and a flat semantics, this axiomatic vie...

Two key aspects of eXtreme Programming are automated testing and frequent refactoring. But is refactoring the best way to arrive at a set of tests that are both sufficient and maintainable? This paper builds on previously cataloged test smells, classifies these smells into two broad categories and introduces principles (or goals) for test automation. It also provides the start of a generative p...

In the early years of the development of a theory of generative grammar (roughly 1955 through the early 1970s), a striking difference between the research problems that characterized the emerging field and those that had occupied its predecessors was the precipitous decline of the study of morphology. The principles of word structure can be divided roughly between those that govern the distribu...

the principles of quran interpretation are amongst the most important issues in the field of quran studies. these principles have always been addressed by both quran researchers, admirers and especially by notable interpreters. principles of interpretation are axioms and basic beliefs that quran interpretation stands on them. these beliefs and propositions affect the very principle of the possi...

abstract almond is an important nut tree which is cultivated in many mediterranean countries. this study was carried out to study some vegetative and reproductive traits as well as qualitative and quantitative characteristics and their correlation in some self-compatible and self-incompatible genotypes obtained from crossing between touno (male parent) and shahrood 12 (female parent). quantitat...