Today millions of players interact with one another in online games, especially massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games promote interaction among players by offering interdependency features, but to date few studies have asked what interdependency design factors of MMORPGs make them fun for players, produce experiences of flow, or enhance player performance. In th...

applying analytical network process in swot (case study in iran insurance company) swot analysis does not present an analytical technique for defining significance of recognized factors and assessment of different strategic alternatives. thus it has several problems in factors assessment. ahp technique solves some of the problems but it is not efficient when the factors have interdependency bec...

The Building-Block Hypothesis appeals to the notion of problem decomposition and the assembly of solutions from sub-solutions. Accordingly, there have been many varieties of GA test problems with a structure based on buildingblocks. Many of these problems use deceptive fitness functions to model interdependency between the bits within a block. However, very few have any model of interdependency...

In this paper we investigate some key challenges in designing organizati ons. We focus on requirements for the effective design of the processes that an organization carries out, with an emphasis on defining and managing interdependencies among organizational subunits engaged in processes within complex organizations. We draw on the concept of process architectures, a fundamental way of describ...