In the paper at hand we present the FDMM formalism that can be used to describe the core constituents of the ADOxx meta modeling approach as it is provided for the Open Models Initiative (OMI). The formalism is based on a first-order logic setting. Thereby formal descriptions of the implementation of modeling languages based on ADOxx can be realized in an intuitive and mathematically exact form...

Social networking sites pose a new arena for argumentative practices and may provide an opportunity to facilitate, and understand argumentative processes in large scale over longer periods of time. Through apps, group awareness tools and argumentation scripts can be implemented in social networking sites, to provide additional, graphically visualized information, and prompt learners to formulat...

Management of development processes in di erent engineer ing disciplines is a challenging task We present an integrated approach which covers not only the activities to be carried out but also the re sources required and the documents produced Integrated management of processes resources and products is based on a model which is for mally speci ed by a programmed graph rewriting system Manageme...

The character of knowledge-intense processes is that participants decide the next process activities on base of the present information and their expert knowledge. The decisions of these knowledge workers are in general non-deterministic. It is not possible to model these processes in advance and to automate them using a process engine of a BPM system. Hence, in this context a process instance ...

The Pellucid project developed an adaptable and customisable platform for enabling experience management in public organisations. A framework for experience management has been developed based on the generation of ‘active hints’ that are presented to the user according to working context. Working context encompasses both position in the work process and domain-specific characteristics. The pape...

In this paper, we introduce two contingency factors --task type and network characteristics—that examine how individuals learn from experience. We hypothesize that task specialization and variation have positive impacts on IS professionals’ learning from experience. We further hypothesize that this performance effect of learning is contingent upon task type and characteristics of domain-specifi...

In the context of a hybrid French-toEnglish SMT system for translating online forum posts, we present two methods for addressing the common problem of homophone confusions in colloquial written language. The first is based on hand-coded rules; the second on weighted graphs derived from a large-scale pronunciation resource, with weights trained from a small bicorpus of domain language. With auto...

The U.S. population has been migrating to places with high perceived quality of life. With homothetic preferences, such migration can follow from the increased demand for amenities that accompanies broad-based technological progress. Under the baseline calibration of a general equilibrium model, a place with amenities for which individuals would initially pay five percent of their income grows ...

Despite of the growing development of learning technologies into education, designing learning scenarios and exploiting them for setting up a learning situation is still a complex task. Visual Instructional Design Languages (VIDL) and their dedicated graphical editors have been identified as important conceptual tools for achieving more creative design solutions within a design process. In this...

The need for performance measurement tools appeared soon after the emergence of the first Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMSs), and proved important for both designers and users (Atkinson & Maier, 1990). Performance evaluation is useful to designers to determine elements of architecture and more generally to validate or refute hypotheses regar ding the actual behavior of an OOD...