US Budget: Escaping the ‘New Realism’

Policy Punctuations : US Budget

Digitalism: The New Realism?

Today’s society is increasingly digitalised, with mobile smartphones being routinely carried and used by a significant percentage of the population. This provides an augmented experience for the individual that does not depend on their geographical separation with respect to their community of friends and other contacts. This changes the nature of relationships between people. Individuals may l...

New Approaches to Studying Information Technology: Escaping the Organizational Straightjacket

The information systems (IS) field has been constrained by organizational studies (OS) for far too long. Although the close relationship between IS and OS has produced fruitful results, the prevalence of IT and its ever-widening impact at all levels of society requires that the IS field escape its organizational straightjacket and embrace new foundations. This research presents a foundation for...

Escaping the Brownian Stalkers

We propose a simple model for the behaviour of longterm investors on a stock market, consisting of three particles, which represent the current price of the stock and the opinion of the buyers, respectively sellers, about the right trading price. As time evolves, both groups of traders update their opinions with respect to the current price. The update speed is controled by a parameter γ, the p...

Escaping the Brownian stalkers

We propose a simple model for the behaviour of longterm investors on a stock market. It consists of three particles that represent the stock’s current price and the buyers’, respectively sellers’, opinion about the right trading price. As time evolves, both groups of traders update their opinions with respect to the current price. The speed of updating is controled by a parameter γ; the price p...