In an environment in which systems are configured by reusing existing subsystems, the determination of complete and consistent configurations is a non-trivial and errorprone task, although considerable information about the subsystems may already be available from previous configurations. The Configuration Management Assistant is a tool that supports tracking and exploiting such information in ...

Chiara Cordelli’s book The Privatized State makes an important contribution to debates over the morality of public administration and widespread privatization. Cordelli argues that privatization is a problem legitimacy, as private actors impose their will unilaterally on others. Bureaucratic decision-making, by contrast, can be legitimate, within correct institutional context in accordance with...

The understanding and development of computer-based information systems relies upon the extensive use of models of human cognition, computer systems and social activity. The development of a range of models in each of these areas represents considerable progress in explaining how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to develop complex systems to support organizations. T...

Political and economic internationalization and globalization, the rise of sub-national self-governing regions and spheres, governance replacing government and many related processes change the role and context of the nation-state, the protector of mass democracy. The concept of (substantive) representation, representation as ‘acting for,’ can help develop answers to the threat that this ‘loss ...

Although substantive due process is one of the most confusing and controversial areas of constitutional law, it is well established that the Due Process Clause includes a substantive component that “bars certain arbitrary wrongful government actions ‘regardless of the fairness of the procedures used to implement them.’” The Court has recognized substantive due process limitations on law-enforce...