This paper aims at providing a rigorous definition of selforganization, one of the most desired properties for dynamic systems, such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks, cooperative robotics, or ad-hoc networks. We propose a framework in order to prove the selforganization of dynamic systems with respect to generic criteria (e.g., similarity, load balancing, geographical neighborhood, batt...

This paper proposes a holistic equilibrium theory of organizational development (OD). The theory states that there are three driving forces in organizational change and development—rationality, reality, and liberty. OD can be viewed as a planned process of change in an organization so as to establish equilibrium among these three interacting forces. Existing OD theories, concepts and their impl...

MOTIVATION The increasing number and complexity of biomodels makes automatic procedures for checking the models' properties and quality necessary. Approaches like elementary mode analysis, flux balance analysis, deficiency analysis and chemical organization theory (OT) require only the stoichiometric structure of the reaction network for derivation of valuable information. In formalisms like Sy...

WE UNDERSTAND “THEORY” TO BE A SYSTEM of testable explanatory statements derived from research. In knowledge organization, the generation of theory has moved from an epistemic stance of pragmatism (based on observation of the construction of retrieval tools), to empiricism (based on the results of empirical research). In the nineteenth century, Panizzi (1841), Cutter (1876), and Dewey (1876), d...

In many organization theories, the interpretation frame is the most important part of the theory. Furthermore, organization theorists use a rich variety of reasoning mechanisms, for instance reasoning about actions using abstraction from time. In formalizing organization theories, one has to try to preserve the richness of the interpretation frames of those theories as well as the richness of t...

This paper outlines an organization theory of political integration among nationstates. If we assume there are existing shared institutions, political integration is here seen to take place to the extent that lines of conflict coinciding with national borders are complemented with cleavages cutting across such borders so that a multidimensional political space can be observed. I ask what differ...