Reproducibility is an essential component of the scientific method. In order to validate the correctness or facilitate the extension of a computational result, it should be possible to re-run a published result and verify that the same results are produced. However, reproducing a computational result is surprisingly difficult: non-determinism and other factors may make it impossible to get the ...

Determinism is a theoretically and practically important concept in labelled transition systems and trees. We study its generalisation to event structures. It turns out that the result depends on what characterising property of tree determinism one sets out to generalise. We present three distinct notions of event structure determinism, and show that none of them shares all the pleasant propert...

The European Citizens’ Initiative is designed to make European democracy more direct by allowing citizens to propose (including electronically) legal acts to the Commission. The present paper offers a conceptual model for the analysis of this eParticipation case, and other similar e-petitioning practices, which is not biased by political ambition or technological determinism. The operational fr...

This paper compares groups of firms with different technological capabilities in Bangkok (Thailand), Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore in respect to their innovation activity, cooperation behaviour and assessment of the business environment. While conspicuous differences between the regions are found, the comparison of the different technological capabilitygroups is less conclusive. However, some...

Innovation in journalism became an important element to determine the current and future direction of profession. Through incremental cumulative transformations over time, because many obstacles faced inside newsrooms, has suffered from significant fundamental changes, including deployment data journalism. In Latin America, practice seen increasing expansion last years. Nevertheless, there are ...

OBJECTIVE Recurrence-based measures of communication determinism and pattern information are described and validated using previously collected team interaction data. BACKGROUND Team coordination dynamics has revealed that"mixing" team membership can lead to flexible interaction processes, but keeping a team "intact" can lead to rigid interaction processes. We hypothesized that communication ...