“Meaningful participation” can be defined in terms of access to voice and competence of knowledge(s) that fosters shared understanding about values, interests, and concerns. Recent research about “analytic-deliberative” decision processes shows that meaningful public participation is possible, and decision outcomes are improved. The analytic component provides technical information that ensures...

Let D be the open unit disc and, as usual, let H(D) be the algebra of bounded analytic functions on D with ‖f‖ = supz∈D |f(z)|. With pointwise addition and multiplication, H(D) is a well known uniform algebra. In this note we characterize the compact endomorphisms of H(D) and determine their spectra. We show that although not every endomorphism T of H(D) has the form T (f)(z) = f(φ(z)) for some...

Event arrival curves [13] are an abstract way of characterizing event streams or arrival patterns as used in the context of real-time analysis of embedded systems. One may employ these abstract stream descriptions as part of analytic, assume/guarantee (A/G), real-time interfaces and thereby define the traffic a component is willing to accept, and what it guarantees to emit. This extended abstra...

In this article we propose an alternative way to prove some recent results on statistics on words, such as the expected number of runs or the expected sum of the run exponents. Our approach consists in designing a general framework, based on the symbolic method developed in analytic combinatorics. The descriptions obtained in this framework are built in such a way that the degree of ambiguity o...

In this paper Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) maturity models are empirically validated in Australian environment. A research instrument used to determine the degree of SISP maturity in Australian organisations is described. While empirical testing of a five-stage SISP model has only confirmed the existence of three levels of SISP maturity, statistical methods confirmed the adequa...

Let X be a (not necessarily reduced) complex analytic space, and let F be a germ of an analytic space. The locus of points q in X at which the germ Xq is complex analytically isomorphic to F is studied. If it is nonempty it is shown to be a locally closed submanifold of X, and X is locally a Cartesian product along this submanifold. This is used to define what amounts to a coarse partial orderi...