Making models work: library annotation through phenoclustering

Models at work--models in decision making.

In recent years, research on modeling in both the philosophy of science and the social studies of science and technology has undergone an acute transformation. Philosophers and social scientists have begun to realize that science, in the words of Carrier and Nordmann, has increasingly shifted its focus from “epistemic or truthoriented” research to “application-dominated” research. “Science is v...

Making Capital Markets Work through Corporate Governance

Making Specifications Complete Through Models

Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by Contract, applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a subset of the relevant properties. We present: – An approach to making these contract elements complete without extending the assertion language, by relying on “model classes” directly deduced from mathematical concepts...

Book reviews: Models for library management, decision-making, and planning

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book models for library management decision making and planning. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space...

Making Online Work, Work

Releasing the potential of online collaborative technologies in distributed work contexts is still a challenge for work systems managers. The availability of the technologies has outrun proven business models that can maximise the extraction of business value. Key problem areas remain in the management of online human interaction, control of business objectives within the medium, and risk manag...