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Modeling Business Processes with Azzurra: Order FulïŹlment
Azzurra is a specification language for modeling and enacting business processes. Azzurra is founded on social concepts, such as roles, agents and commitments among them, and Azzurra models are social models consisting of networks of commitments. As such, Azzurra models support the flexible enactment of business processes, and provide a semantic notion of actor accountability and business process compliance.
In this technical report, we apply Azzurra to the order fulfilment exemplar from the literature
Programming Elasticity and Commitment in Dynamic Processes
In the past, elasticity and commitment in business processes were underexplored. But as
businesses increasingly exploit pay-per-use resources in the cloud for on-demand needs,
elasticity and commitment have become important issues. Here, the authors discuss the value
of using elastic resources and commitments to create more dynamic organizations that can
easily balance the need to be adaptable and flexible, while also retaining a high level of
manageability.Junta de AndalucĂa P12-TIC-1867Ministerio de EconomĂa y Competitividad TIN2012-32273Junta de AndalucĂa TIC-590
Extend Commitment Protocols with Temporal Regulations: Why and How
The proposal of Elisa Marengo's thesis is to extend commitment protocols to
explicitly account for temporal regulations. This extension will satisfy two
needs: (1) it will allow representing, in a flexible and modular way, temporal
regulations with a normative force, posed on the interaction, so as to
represent conventions, laws and suchlike; (2) it will allow committing to
complex conditions, which describe not only what will be achieved but to some
extent also how. These two aspects will be deeply investigated in the proposal
of a unified framework, which is part of the ongoing work and will be included
in the thesis.Comment: Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Poster Session of the 5th
International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011@IJCAI), pages 1-8
(arXiv:1107.1686
The Partnership Paperchase: Structuring Partnership Agreements in Water and Sanitation in Low-income Communities
Tripartite partnerships between water utilities, local government and civil society are often seen as a good way to deliver services to informal urban communities and slums. However, while these 'partnerships' can be seen as benign relationships, they often fail because the incentives and interests of the partners are not well aligned. In this report, the authors argue that the development of robust documentation (in forms which consitute a 'contractual' agreement) can enhance the performance of such partnerships. Aspects of the partnership which should be included in such documentation include roles and responsibilities, financing, objectives and indicators of success and dispute-resolution mechanisms. The report provides practical guidance and examples of good practice to guide the reader through a process of developing such documentation
The Partnership Paperchase: Structuring Partnership Agreements in Water and Sanitation in Low-income Communities
Tripartite partnerships between water utilities, local government and civil society are often seen as a good way to deliver services to informal urban communities and slums. However, while these 'partnerships' can be seen as benign relationships, they often fail because the incentives and interests of the partners are not well aligned. In this report, the authors argue that the development of robust documentation (in forms which consitute a 'contractual' agreement) can enhance the performance of such partnerships. Aspects of the partnership which should be included in such documentation include roles and responsibilities, financing, objectives and indicators of success and dispute-resolution mechanisms. The report provides practical guidance and examples of good practice to guide the reader through a process of developing such documentation
Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector
This essay examines the changing character of public sector work in the Canadian federal public service context. It is based on an empirical examination of various forms of contractual relations currently operative within the Canadian state and on a comparative approach of other western liberal state reform initiatives. We argue that contract governance is an ongoing process involving distinct interrelations between the public and private sectors. In this context, we identify various forms of contract governance and flexibility schemes that have been enfolded and refolded into the conventional structures of governance, and unfolded into a liminal space between the state and civil society through the establishment of nonstandard work and the creation of alternative service delivery programmes
The legal framework for Australia's Carbon Pricing Mechanism: a critique
As part of the Australian Governmentâs Clean Energy Plan, the Government has attempted to harness the legal innovation of the tradeable emissions unit, within a capped carbon trading system, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such an approach promises to send a price signal to the market which will influence emitting behaviours and reduce our emissions in a cost-effective manner. However, if the carbon trading scheme is to successfully achieve cost-effective emissions reductions then the carbon market must be supported by an appropriate legal framework. This paper will consider the key features of the Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism, including the Carbon Farming Initiative, and critique whether it has all the hallmarks of an effective legal framework to reduce Australiaâs net greenhouse gas emissions. The likely future of the trading scheme, following the 2013 elections, will also be addressed
Doctrina perpetua: brokering change, promoting innovation and transforming marginalisation in university learning and teaching [Editors introduction]
Doctrina perpetuaâtranslated variously as âforever learningâ (Cryle, 1992, p. 27), âlifelong
learningâ and âlifelong educationââis the Latin motto of Central Queensland University (CQU), an
Australian regional university with campuses in Central Queensland and the metropolitan and
provincial cities of Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Sydney and with centres in China, Fiji,
Hong Kong and Singapore.
During its early development the institution was small and regional; in many ways it was an
institution at the margins of higher education. For only a third of its 40-year life has it been recognised
as a university. However, the vision of both its founders and its continuing staff has been that of an
institution that actively brokers change, promotes innovation and seeks to transform marginalisationâ
for students, for its community and for itself. Its short life on the edge of the universe of higher
education has promoted a culture of innovation and an acceptance that change is a necessary and
positive aspect of life on the edge. Embracing change, CQU has become a complex institution, a notion
well expressed in a speech in August 1999 by former Vice-Chancellor Lauchlan Chipman on Visioning
Our Future:
I have often remarked that I do not see CQU as âthe last university of the old
millenniumâ but rather as âthe first university of the new millenniumâ. One of our
greatest strengths in making the transition is our relative immaturity as a university. The
more mature a university, especially if it is successful, the less agile it is when it comes
to the need to change. So far as the future of universities and change is concerned, my
position is unequivocally Heraclitean: change is the only thing that is permanent.
Applying to itself the motto âdoctrina perpetuaâ over its short life, the agile University has become
a âcomplex and diverse organisationâ (Danaher, Harreveld, Luck & Nouwens, 2004, p. 13). This
overview of CQU seeks to provide readers with a short description of the current state of the institution
and the story of its development to provide a context for understanding the chapters that follow, and to
assist readers to reflect on how these developments at CQU relate to higher education generally, and to
the universities with which they are more familiar
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