Recently, Marengo and Settepanella (2010) introduced a model of social choice among bundles of interdependent elements. In this paper we prove that their voting model is highly decidable, i.e. a group of agents that agrees to use such voting process has an high probability to reach a final...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die individuelle, quantifizierte Bewertung der Komplexität als Kennzahl der Produktivität im Entwicklungscontrolling auf Grundlage der Produktmodelle. Dies umfasst zum Beispiel 3D-CAD-Modelle, Funktionsmodelle, Quellcode oder Anforderungsdokumente. Kernelement ist...

Organizations are increasingly challenged by dynamism and turbulence that determine conditions of complexity in decision making. The aim of this paper is to highlight the need for a general frame of reference for management and marketing and to justify why adopting a systems approach is adequate...

The recent increase in research collaboration, coupled with the increase in interdisciplinarity, creates the need to better understand the interaction between individual researchers and the collaborative team. Surprisingly, little theorizing has taken place to understand this interaction. The...

This article presents some of the results of a research program on industrial dynamics and sectoral interdependence, developed at the Economics Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ) in the 1980s.The research builds on the French concept of Filiegrave;re to put forth...

This article is about Complex Problem Solving (CPS), its history in a variety of research domains (e.g., human problem solving, expertise, decision making, and intelligence), and a formal definition and a process theory of CPS applicable to the interdisciplinary field. CPS is portrayed as (a)...

This study investigates estimation errors due to hidden costs — the costs of implementation that are neglected in strategic decision-making processes — in the context of services offshoring. Based on data from the Offshoring Research Network, we find that decision makers are more likely to...

Computationally represented laws should accurately model their real-world counterparts in rules-based legal compliance systems. Legal theoretical considerations, however, often complicate the task of faithful representation. One approach to this problem has been to create sophisticated models...