Legislating for Air Quality Management: Reducing Theory to Practice

What does it mean to bootstrap a compiler, and why do it? This paper reports on the first bootstrapping of a full-scale EOO (Equation-based Object-Oriented) modeling language such as Modelica. Bootstrapping means that the compiler of a language can compile itself. However, the usual application area for the Modelica is modeling and simulation of complex physical systems. Fortunately it turns out that with some minor extensions, the Modelica language is well suited for the modeling of language semantics. We use the name MetaModelica for this slightly extended Modelica. This is a prerequisite for bootstrapping which requires that the language can be used to model and/or implement itself. The OpenModelica Compiler (OMC) has been written in this MetaModelica language. It originally supported only the standard Modelica language but has been gradually extended to also cover the MetaModelica language extensions. After substantial work, OMC is able to quickly compile itself and produces an executable with good performance. The benefits include a more extensible and maintainable compiler by introducing improved language constructs and a more powerful runtime that makes it easy to add functionality such as parser generators, debuggers, and profiling tools. Future work includes extracting and restructuring parts of OMC, making the compiler smaller and more modular and extensible. This will also make it easier to interface with OMC, making it possible to create more powerful and user-friendly OpenModelica-based tools. The compiler and its bootstrapping is a major effort -- it is currently about 330 000 lines of code, and the MetaModelica extensions are used routinely by approximately ten developers on a daily basis

Design Ltd.: Renovated Myths for the Development of Socially Embedded Technologies

This paper argues that traditional and mainstream mythologies, which have been continually told within the Information Technology domain among designers and advocators of conceptual modelling since the 1960s in different fields of computing sciences, could now be renovated or substituted in the mould of more recent discourses about performativity, complexity and end-user creativity that have been constructed across different fields in the meanwhile. In the paper, it is submitted that these discourses could motivate IT professionals in undertaking alternative approaches toward the co-construction of socio-technical systems, i.e., social settings where humans cooperate to reach common goals by means of mediating computational tools. The authors advocate further discussion about and consolidation of some concepts in design research, design practice and more generally Information Technology (IT) development, like those of: task-artifact entanglement, universatility (sic) of End-User Development (EUD) environments, bricolant/bricoleur end-user, logic of bricolage, maieuta-designers (sic), and laissez-faire method to socio-technical construction. Points backing these and similar concepts are made to promote further discussion on the need to rethink the main assumptions underlying IT design and development some fifty years later the coming of age of software and modern IT in the organizational domain.Comment: This is the peer-unreviewed of a manuscript that is to appear in D. Randall, K. Schmidt, & V. Wulf (Eds.), Designing Socially Embedded Technologies: A European Challenge (2013, forthcoming) with the title "Building Socially Embedded Technologies: Implications on Design" within an EUSSET editorial initiative (www.eusset.eu/

Role of Family Governance in Bringing the Next Generation Close to the Family Business

In terms of family business continuity, succession remains one of the most pressing challenges for business-owning families. According to statistics, only 10 % of family businesses survive through the third generation of ownership. Nonetheless, research focusing on next generation integration and supporting communication practices is scarce. This thesis is a case study of next generation integration in a family business currently in its second generation of ownership (later "the case Family Business"). The purpose of this study is to identify ways in which the next generation has built its relationship with the case Family Business, and what role formal communication practices (later "planned communication") have played in that process. The theoretical framework consists of theories that explain the distinctive fea- tures of family businesses, their development over time, and the subsequent loss of natural communication. Family governance is presented as a solution to reintroduce communication into the family business system and manage the increasing family complexity. The relationship between the next generation and the case Family Business is analyzed with the help of the stakeholder communication model. Finding suggest, that next generation members build their relationship with the case Family Business through the same dimensions that constitute a family business: family, ownership and business. Furthermore, touchpoints to all three were needed in order to achieve a strong stakeholder relationship. The findings also highlight the role of family governance in next generation integration. Although the next generation members’ immediate families remained their most important link to the Family Business, the role of planned communication was found to be significant and growing. Planned communication was found to enable ownership talk, create shared mean- ing about the business, increase overall communication, promote equality, and increase the sense of togetherness within the business-owning family. Based on this study, family governance and planned communication have been beneficial in terms of bringing the next generation closer to the Family Business

Securing the Future: Volume 2. Implementing Your Firm\u27s Succession Plan

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Media narratives, politics and the Cyprus problem

Media, politics and the Cyprus Problem are the main themes of the present study. Through analysis of Greek and Turkish Cypriot television news bulletins and newspaper editorials and leading articles, the study seeks to establish media approaches and positions on important issues so as to better understand their work, role and functions. The study analyses practices and positions related to the Cyprus Problem, the solution, matters of identity, the ‘others’ and the European Union, the authorities and the political forces. This attempt to ascertain the underlying values that guide news selection and content will provide a clearer picture of how the media interacts with or influences society