Beyond the paper

Beyond Paper

The authors outline the way in which documents as social objects have evolved from their earliest forms to the electronic documents of the present day. They note that while certain featu res have remained consistent, processes regarding document authentication are seriously complicated by the easy reproducibility of digital entities. The authors argue that electronic documents also raise signif...

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Eliciting Requirements: Beyond the Blank Sheet of Paper

Actions in the requirements phase can directly impact the success or failure of a project. It is critical that project management utilize all available tools to identify potential problems and risks as early in the development as possible, especially in the requirements phase. The Software Assurance Technology Center (GSFC) and the Quality Assurance Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Working Paper Series Organizational rationality beyond the mechanistic framework

In this paper it is argued that the mechanistic framework allows only a very limited understanding of organizational rationality and that the concept of organizational rationality needs serious reconsideration, based on the assumption that theoretical understanding and articulation are the corner-stones of rationality. After a brief discussion about the fundamental importance of rationality for...

High-level robotic control: beyond planning Position paper

We agree with the premise of this workshop that it is time to take seriously the need for high-level cognition in designing robotic systems. In this position paper, we motivate and describe in an informal way the direction we are taking in this regard. Technical details can be found in the papers at our website above. For the past five years or so, a group of us1 at the University of Toronto ha...