INTRODUCTION Procedural parameters in the imperative paradigm are hardly exploited in computing literature. Among the rare examples, Allison used procedural parameters to represent continuations, and van Eijk employed procedural parameters in generating all paths from the root of a binary tree to each of its leaves. To fertilize the field of procedural parameters, this note presents a use of pr...

This paper presents a new definition for Plans The objects defined are called Plan Nets, and are similar in spirit to Sacerdoti's Procedural Nets (1975) It is argued that Plan Nets are more descriptive tham Procedural Nets, because they can easily describe iterative behaviour The Plan Net definition is motivated by providing an operational semantics for the Procedural Net, and noticing that all...

social norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members based on the process of social control, the level of political legitimacy and procedural justice practices in the areas of governance, social order is guaranteed. in this study, the independent variables associated with three domains of social control, procedural justice and social capital to norm comp...

Groups use procedural structures to organize their efforts in meetings. These structures are affected by group members’ preferences for the degree of procedural order they want in a meeting, as well as by the communication media available in the meeting environment. Analysis of thirty partially distributed experimental groups that met over a series of four sessions was conducted by using two me...

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...