When creating (open) agent systems it has become common practice to use social concepts such as practices, norms and conventions model the way interactions between agents are regulated. However, in literature most papers concentrate on only one of these aspects at time. Therefore there is hardly any research how relate. It also unclear whether something like a norm evolves from or convention th...

A considerable amount of research has already been conducted in the IT/IS evaluation arena, yet rewards remain elusive. This has been variously explained and in this paper we aim to realize two objectives: first, to examine some particular political and social aspects of evaluation processes in organizations and, second, to show the potential contribution of a social shaping approach to informa...

the nigerian rice sector has made remarkable improvement in the last decade as production has increased significantly thereby reducing the gap between domestic supply and demand. in the last three decades, rice imports make up greater proportion of nigerian imports as rice forms a structural component of the nigerian diet. past government inconsistent policies were not successful in securing go...

A theory of complex systems has been developed from the forties, relating simple elementary processes to collective functional properties in physics, biology and the social sciences. More recently, application to design and business have been developed. A major turning point around year 2000 is the availability of huge set of data which complex systems methodology allows to transform into usefu...