Business Intelligence (BI) beschreibt einen integrierten, unternehmensspezifischen, ITbasierten Gesamtansatz zur betrieblichen Entscheidungsunterstützung (Kemper, Mehanna, & Unger, 2006, S. 8). Die Entwicklung von einzelnen BIAnwendungssystemen erfolgt anhand von speziellen BI-Werkzeugen und bildet Teilaspekte des Gesamtansatzes ab. Für moderne BI-Anwendungen kommen in der Regel mehrere spezial...

This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

Une fréquentation même sommaire et partielle de l’immense littérature qui a été consacrée à Michel Foucault révèle qu’elle repose en grande partie sur une décontextualisation l’oeuvre. Dans un souci contextualiser celle-ci, je défendrai trois arguments : 1) le rejet la « pensée dialectique », dont phénoménologie est cas plus récent suivant Foucault, doit être considéré comme structurant tout so...

This is a historical-critical study of the hole argument, concentrating on the interface between historical, philosophical and physical issues. Although it includes a review of its history, its primary aim is a discussion of the contemporary implications of the hole argument for physical theories based on dynamical, background-independent space-time structures. The historical review includes Ei...

The internalization of public stigma by persons with serious mental illnesses may lead to self-stigma, which harms self-esteem, self-efficacy, and empowerment. Previous research has evaluated a hierarchical model that distinguishes among stereotype awareness, agreement, application to self, and harm to self with the 40-item Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS). This study addressed SSMIS...

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology will be developed that attempts to remain faithful to the limitations derived from this aspect of complexity science. We will argue that such an investigation of complex systems highlights the relevance of paradigmatic plurali...

AM MOST GRATEFUL to J. Linn Mackey (2002) for his thoughtful commentary on my article. He is correct in arguing that intuition deserves a more prominent place in a discussion of how to do interdisciplinary research. I welcome the opportunity to correct this oversight on my part. However, Mackey draws what I believe to be a false dichotomy between " rule-driven " and " intuitive " research; I wi...

KURZFASSUNG Moderne (Datenbank-)Anwendungen sehen sich in der heutigen Zeit mit immer höheren Anforderungen hinsichtlich Flexibilität, Funktionalität oder Verfügbarkeit konfrontiert. Nicht zuletzt für deren Backend – ein meist relationales Datenbankmanagementsystem – entsteht dadurch eine kontinuierlich steigende Komplexität und Workload, die es frühestmöglich proaktiv zu erkennen, einzuschätze...