Formal Models of Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

Modern Bureaucracy

Max Weber believed that bureaucracy could be understood by analysing its ideal-typical characteristics, and that these characteristics would become more pervasive as the modern age advanced. Weber’s horizontal account of bureaucracy can be criticised on various grounds, including its unrealistic notion of bureaucratic rationality. An alternative view is proposed, namely, that the development of...

Formal Models of Web

| We present a new formal model of query and computation on the Web. We focus on two important aspects that distinguish the access to Web data from the access to a standard database system: the navigational nature of the access and the lack of concurrency control. We show that these two issues have signiicant eeects on the computability of queries. To illustrate the ideas and how they can be us...

Formal Models of Awareness

This special issue on Formal Models of Awareness contains five papers that concentrate on different approaches to the notion of awareness. They include syntactic and semantic approaches to modelling awareness (awareness of formulas as opposed to awareness of semantic objects such as sets of possoble worlds) and an alternative view from the multi-agent systems perspective where awareness is iden...

Dynamically Engineering Bureaucracy