When Things Go Awry in Axons

When sports rules go awry

Mike Wright (Wright, M. OR analysis of sporting rules – A survey. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(1):1-8, 2014 ) recently presented a survey of sporting rules from an Operational Research (OR) perspective. He surveyed 21 sports, which consider the rules of sports and tournaments and whether changes have led to unintended consequences. The paper concludes “Overall, it would seem th...

Plant Autoimmunity: When Good Things Go Bad.

A recent study finds that the Arabidopsis DM1 and DM2d proteins physically interact and trigger autoimmunity in plants. The DM1-DM2d interaction pattern differs from that of known immune receptor pairs, portraying the versatility in NLR functioning.

Getting it right when things go wrong.

When Things Go Wrong: Interrupting Conversations

This paper presents a true-concurrent approach to formalising integration of Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with Web services. Our approach formalises common notions in service-oriented computing such as conversations (interactions between clients and web services), multi-party conversations (interactions between multiple web services) and coordination protocols, which are central in a tran...

Researching the reliability of accreditation survey teams: lessons learnt when things went awry.

Accreditation of health organisations, occurring in over 70 countries, is predicated upon the reliability of survey teams judgements, but we do not know the extent to which survey teams are reliable. To contribute evidence to this issue, we investigated the reliability of two survey teams simultaneously assessing an organisation. The setting was a large Australian teaching hospital, and data we...