This paper introduces an object-oriented approach to the integrated modeling of Organizations, and their Information Systems in a Distributed context. The approach is based on the OOram role modeling methodology concepts and tool. In the proposed approach organization modeling is done at the enterprise level of abstraction and both reverse and forward engineering are consistently supported. Dis...

The League of Nations Health Organization collaborated with Latin American specialists in public health and infectious diseases from the early 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. The League developed studies of infant health and nutrition, and leprosy. The approach was expert-oriented, and designed to develop public health on a scientific basis. There were conferences, tours and repo...

The International Dermoscopy Society The IDS was founded in 2003 to promote clinical research in dermoscopy and to represent a clinically oriented international organization with a thrust towards helping and improving education in dermoscopy. Our membership is worldwide and currently more than 100 countries are represented, with individuals joining by direct application for free membership. Our...

Many agent-oriented patterns have been written to capture agentoriented software engineering experiences over the past ten years. However, there is no unified organization of these patterns and their reuse is almost non existent. In this paper, we present a process for analyzing agent-oriented patterns leading towards the creation of a unified view of these patterns. The process is based on the...

Throughout human affairs and even in mathematics, science, and engineering, there are two logics that are dual to one another (series-parallel duality). Albert Hirschman investigates the two logics as the parallel-oriented logic of exit and the series-oriented logic of commitment, loyalty, and voice. Economics focuses almost exclusively on the logic of exit so that all questions of institutiona...

While the aspiration for the IS discipline's bright future is a shared objective, there is a controversy about what are the fundamental challenges ahead let alone how to approach them. This panel addresses the question of what should we do to nurture a thriving IS discipline? Opinions regarding how to solidify the position of the IS discipline can be classified into five interrelated clusters: ...

Hierarchy organization is suitable for multi-robot system application. Robot or collaborative robots group is considered as an agent, then the organization model consists of agents and the relations between them. This paper introduces the logic of tasks combined with description logic to construct logic system L′ . According to related works [4], we can prove L′ is decidable, complete and sound...

This paper presents the initial results of an empirical study of the learning organization concept to information technology enabled process improvement projects. A brief overview of the process change studies is presented. The Learning Organization Model is then presented as a possible framework for understanding the behavior of organizations engaged in the implementation of process improvemen...