In this paper we argue the need and motivation for an organizational engineering pattern language focused on the identification of the basic entities, or constructors, that would support the modelling, monitoring, simulation, and eventual execution of organizations. The main motivation for those constructors would be the development of a new class of information systems that would allow manager...

Enterprise-level component-based development is an important topic in today's software industry. Several technologies for components on the server exist, among them EJB, CCM and COM+. Although these technologies have significant differences, they are all built on the same core concepts. This paper captures these concepts in the form of a pattern language in Alexandrian style. The patterns are u...

Having developed greatly over millennium under its culture, the ancient buildings and old town atmospheres maintain a quality of comfort. However, people only appreciate the “good old” quality and do not think further about the rational reasons why they feel comfort in it. This keeps them from creating their own things and models with good old quality, relying on the imported western thinking a...

In this paper, we propose a pattern language for Generative Participants. Recent education more and more requires methods to cultivate creativity in the students. A Generative Participant proposed in this paper is a teaching style aimed to cultivate creativity in its students. In a project-based environment, a Generative Participant teaches by actually participating in creative activities to st...

Creating appropriate E-Learning material is difficult and expensive. Therefore, a reuse of existing material would be desirable. But this often fails as the material is usually context specific. When it is re-used in a new context, it often does not fit the needs of the new usage scenario. Hence, an adaptation to the new scenario of usage is needed. In this paper we present a new fragment of ou...

In natural language technology up to now most projects were based on either logical and linguistic methods or they were strictly based on stochastic techniques alone borrowed from pattern recognition. This article discusses hybrid symbolic and stochastic techniques in natural language processing as they are currently explored in many projects and in particular in our work within the Verbmobil p...

The traditional focus of companies has been on competition. However, increasingly companies understand that it may be in their best interest to collaborate with their competitors. What drives a company to collaborate with competitors, and what are the potential benefits and pitfalls? Under what conditions should the company pursue a business opportunity on its own? These are questions we try to...

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