the decision to buy, sell, design and construct residential apartments is a complex process due to a combination of multiplequalitative and quantitative factors. it thus requires a great deal of costs and time for decision makers in this market. identifying these factors and determining the priority of them are importance for selectingan apartment. the aim of current research is to identify the...

Creativity refers to the potential to produce novel ideas that are task-appropriate and high in quality. Creativity in a societal context is best understood in terms of a dialectical relation to intelligence and wisdom. In particular, intelligence forms the thesis of such a dialectic. Intelligence largely is used to advance existing societal agendas. Creativity forms the antithesis of the diale...

An essential problem in online forms of alternative dispute resolution is that it is difficult to structure and process the information that is exchanged between negotiating parties. This paper offers a simple scheme according to which users can enter claims and justify them with other claims. Claims can also be conceded, questioned and contradicted. Based on the information that is entered int...

In this paper we consider the co-evolutionary dynamics of IS engagement where episodic change of implementation increasingly occurs within the context of linkages and interdependencies between systems and processes within and across organisations. Although there are many theories that interpret the various motors of change be it lifecycle, teleological, dialectic or evolutionary, our paper atte...

Two agents endowed with different individual conceptual spaces are engaged in a dialectic process to reach a common understanding. We model the process as a simple noncooperative game and demonstrate three results. When the initial disagreement is focused, the bargaining process has a zero-sum structure. When the disagreement is widespread, the zero-sum structure disappears and the unique equil...

Modern social media relies on high quality user generated writing such as reviews, explanations, and answers. In contrast to standard validation to provide feedback for structured inputs (e.g., dates, email addresses), it is difficult to provide timely, high quality, customized feedback for freeform text input. While existing solutions based on crowdsourced feedback (e.g., upvotes and comments)...