This paper reviews the interest of using context for participative simulation in virtual environment for training. Our aim is to simulate some cognitive mechanisms in order to obtain credible agent’s decision-making. Another interesting aspect is the explanation needed when the learner makes a mistake. We argue, in this article, that context is a good concept to give better explanations. We des...

The present Technical Report contains a concise analysis of some participatory methods and a discussion of the method of consensus as a formal tool for decisionmaking. The treatment is kept at an informal and colloquial level with the aim to be precise and concise. The main source is Elliot et al. (2005) but other sources are used and will be mentioned in the right places. This Technical Report...

Eurofound data shows that only 29% of employees in the European Union, Norway and United Kingdom participate work their organizations at a high level involvement: they making decisions have an impact on wider organization, individually or collectively, show personal initiative carrying out daily tasks. At time when many companies are facing serious crises (inflation, problems functioning supply...

This article suggests an assessment of new national framework legislation related to biodiversity loss (called “Biodiversity Act”) be performed in Finland. Such could partly inspired by the Climate Change Act (609/2015), and it inter alia, promote following aspects explored this article: realisation fundamental rights, more effective coherent governmental planning, participative democracy. As c...

Current decision-making practices used to determine water allocations between competing uses in Australia generally disregard the social, cultural and political impacts of these types of decisions and to a lesser extent the economics. Tokenistic community consultation, rather than meaningful and purposeful participation in the water allocation decision-making process, results in a lack of commu...

Our research explores meta-design as an innovative framework in the design of an emerging type of software-intensive systems called participative software systems. The fundamental challenge facing this approach is achieving the best fit between the software system and its ever-changing context of use, problems, domains, users, and communities of users. Our objective is to define the scientific ...

This research investigates the relationship between the hierarchical level of managerial personnel and individual differences in their leadership styles, specifically the degree to which they are disposed to the use of participative versus autocratic decision-making strategies. Analysis of self-report data collected from four different levels of managers suggests a greater propensity for use of...

The presented work investigates process models for participatory spatial decision processes, especially focusing on IT-supported procedures. Results of this work are process patterns according to different classes of problem complexity, accompanied by operational instructions for conducting the procedure, and requirements for the supporting software tools. The aim of this paper is to explain th...

In a distributed eLearning environment, the development of learning objects is a participative task. We consider learning objects as knowledge pieces, which are subject to the management processes of acquisition, delivery, creation and production. A multiple-tier architecture for participative knowledge production tasks is introduced, where knowledge-producing agents are arranged into knowledge...

Participative software systems are a new class of software systems whose development does not end at the deployment but requires continued user participation and contribution. They need to provide both solutions to users and a participation framework that entails technical and social challenges. Metadesign is a promising approach to guide the development of participative software systems. Drawi...