Scientific Assistance in Law Making

Observations on Conway’s Law in Scientific Computing

We describe the structure of organizations and products of scientific computing projects using Conway’s Law as a lens to guide our observations. Our organizational findings include highly unconventional work structures, loose project membership and roles, low team coordination and awareness, and the dependence on liaisons for geographically distributed development. These characteristics are ref...

Challenges in Law Making in Mass Societies

Book Review: Law in the Making

Scientific Aspects of Silage Making

Silage is a common way of storing and feeding forage in the United States. There are 4 phases (aerobic, anaerobic, stable, and feedout) that silage undergoes. The most critical phases to manage to minimize nutritive losses are when the silage is going from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment and at feedout. The first important step in achieving silage of high nutritive value is to harvest at...

Analyzing law-making from a business process view: The paradox of law-making

REQUIRED) The law-making process is the source of legislation and is inextricably bound up with the developments of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of e-government. Against this backdrop, both the normative law-making process (as prescribed in law) and the law-making processes as found in practice are being analyzed. Both types of processes are modeled using Business Process Modeling...