Storage space, loss of documents, misfiled and misplaced documents, and document retrieval are just a few of the problems of processing large volumes of paper. High storage costs, lost productivity, personnel costs, and poor responsiveness are some of the results. Until recently, technology could not provide a Cost-effective method for reducing this paper flow. IBM designed its midrange ImagePl...

What is the evolutionary significance of the various mechanisms of imitation, emulation and social learning found in humans and other animals? This paper presents an advance in the theoretical resources for addressing that question, in the light of which standard approaches from the cultural evolution literature should be refocused. The central question is whether humans have an imitation-based...

We present a new approach for separating configuration privilege from traditional root privilege. We limit this new configuration privilege to a single (new) system daemon, configd. This daemon reads requests for changes in system configuration, either allowing or denying each request based on various criteria (possibly including user input). We do not allow any other application to run with co...

Information systems are understood as models or representations of an application domain. System analysis is a mode of inquiry for purposes of understanding the domain and effecting change in it. Scientific inquiry also aims for understanding and description of domain. In contrast to system analysis, scientific inquiry is based on a 4000-year history. Its processes and methods are well accepted...

Complexity and complex systems’ theory are issues coming more and more into focus as it seems that most systems in our lives must be understood in this perspective. This new way of understanding, explains features otherwise ignored or considered noise in an ordered perspective. The paper argues that construction should also be understood as a complex, dynamic phenomenon. It analyzes the constru...

Human language is a biological system: All humans are neurologically predisposed to acquire whatever language they are exposed to in their early years. Language itself is socially transmitted. A rich interaction between genetic (brain) structures and social behavior gives rise to what linguists call a “grammar”, which is the knowledge (part innate, part learned) of language complexity found ins...

In this paper we investigate a relation between modern hypertext approaches and conventional data modelling techniques, such as PSM. This relation provides us with the mechanism of query by navigation, in order to facilitate the query formulation problem.

The standard information flow view of cognition and language has environmental information being transduced at sensory surfaces, the encodings thereby generated being processed in internal cognition (whether of symbol manipulation or connectionist or neural net form, or all of the above), and further output encodings being generated for action, such as walking or eating. A special case of outpu...