Socio-Technical Factors in Electronic Software Biddings

Intelligent software agents in electronic commerce: a socio-technical perspective

INTRODUCTION Although there is no firm consensus on what constitutes an intelligent agent (or software agent), an intelligent agent, when a new task is delegated by the user, should determine precisely what its goal is, evaluate how the goal can be reached in an effective manner, and perform the necessary actions by learning from past experience and responding to unforeseen situations with its ...

Software Market Configuration: A Socio-Technical Explanation

In the case presented herein, two three-dimensional rendering software products coexist without competing, though they present similar characteristics and rely on competitive technological architectures. The market configuration for these two software products thus appears largely determined by socio-technical elements, not just the technical characteristics of the software architecture. The so...

Designing for Participation in Socio-technical Software Systems

Participative software systems are a new class of software systems whose development does not end at the deployment but requires continued user participation and contribution. They need to provide both solutions to users and a participation framework that entails technical and social challenges. Metadesign is a promising approach to guide the development of participative software systems. Drawi...

Socio-Technical Support for Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development Tools

Software development is inherently a knowledge-intensive and distributed cognitive activity. From this perspective, one of the major issues in user-centered software development tools is to provide support for knowledge collaboration between the developer and the external knowledge resources, which include both information in repositories and knowledgeable peers. This paper describes two protot...

Critical Success Factors in M-Learning: A Socio-Technical Perspective