The qualitative interview is one of the most important data gathering tools in qualitative research, yet it has remained an unexamined craft in IS research. This paper discusses the potential difficulties, pitfalls and problems of the qualitative interview in IS research. Building on Goffman’s seminal work on social life, the paper proposes a dramaturgical model as a useful way of conceptualizi...

Qualitative reasoning typically proceeds by instantiating type-level constraints to produce a complete propositional model of a scenario, and then reasoning over this propositional representation. As we pursue the problem of learning qualitative models and applying them to openended construction domains, the limitations of this approach have become increasingly acute. Consequently, we have been...

The primary purpose of this study was to propose a grounded theory of knowledge transformation in the hypertext authoring process. More specifically, the present study attempted to answer the following two questions: 1) what cognitive processes are involved in knowledge transformation through hypertext authoring and 2) how are these cognitive processes interrelated. For the first question, this...

1 Abstract All the qualitative simulation algorithms so far proposed depend upon local propagation paradigm, and hence produce spurious states. Recent approaches use topological constraints in phase space diagrams for filtering the spurious states. We propose an alternative method of recognizing global properties in the graphically expressed qualitative model. Qualitative versions of such syste...

this article discuss about public policy implementation for cultural space in iran. we want to design a model for implementing cultural policy. and will explain the factors of the model and the relations between them. then we will compare the proposed model with the other famous models on the word. the proposed model created with the qualitative methodology which is grounded theory (gt). with p...

In the stochastic qualitative reasoning, which we have proposed, the probabilistic process is used for state transitions based on the stochastic qualitative model . States with relatively small existence probabilities are eliminated in order to suppress the number of generated states under computable order . The determination of stochastic parameters is the most difficult task in model construc...

the present study has dealt with studying the coaching model in training of human resource based on grounded theory. this study has done on qualitative bases and has utilized grounded theory approach besides semi-structured interviews for data collecting. in this study, interview was conducted, by using purposive and chain sampling, 7 training experts who were familiar with coaching. this quali...

Qualitative simulation predicts the set of possible behaviors consistent with a qualitative differential equation model of the world. Its value comes from the ability to express natural types of incomplete knowledge of the world, and the ability to derive a provably complete set of possible behaviors in spite of the incompleteness of the model. A qualitative differential equation model (QDE) is...