A semantic framework for open processes. We propose a general methodology for analysing the behaviour of open systems modelled as coordinators, i.e., open terms of suitable process calculi. A coordinator is understood as a process with holes or placeholders where other coordinators and components (i.e., closed terms) can be plugged in, thus influencing its behaviour. The operational semantics of coordinators is given by means of a symbolic transition system, where states are coordinators and transitions are labeled by spatial/modal formulae expressing the potential interaction that plugged components may enable. Behavioural equivalences for coordinators, like strong and weak bisimilarities, can be straightforwardly defined over such a transition system. Trolltech, phonon and open processes. There's been a scatter-shot of updates on planet.kde.org and Google+ (and I assume elsewhere in places Id don't follow so closely) about Plasma Desktop's KRunner, Milou and Sprinter and, given the feedback and comments that I keep seeing, I fear that it is generally leaving people more confused than enlightened.
Let's see if we can sort it all out together here. What people want Let's start by talking about the use cases these tools are intended to address, as that will help us understand why the tools exist and why they are designed the way they are. Essentially, people want to find and then open things. That sounds both obvious and simple, but on closer examination it is a bit more exciting than it may at first seem.
Find: The traditional way of finding something on a computer is to start with a user interface that lists a set of entry points and then navigate through them like a maze. Open: An application gets launched. So the point of all these tools is to find and open things. Fine! Magazine / Columns : Open processes. Magazine Open processes BILL KIRKMAN Two recent elections have been very different in their significance and their impact. With all due respect to the Liberal Democrat Party in the United Kingdom, the election of its new leader, Nick Clegg, on December 18, was not the sort of news that required editors around the world to hold the front page.
The Lib Dems are the third party in the British political firmament. Realistically, the nearest they are likely to come to power in the foreseeable future is as holders of the balance in a “hung” parliament. Neither of the two candidates for the leadership, Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne, is a household name. Turn now to another election on the following day — that of Jacob Zuma as leader of the African National Congress in South Africa.
Crucial outcome Clearly, South Africa has a crucial position in the African continent, and the leadership of the country has wide-ranging implications. Courtesy still an asset Magazine. Tom Fuentes: professional schmoozer, circumventer of open processes, and THUG. I’ve been thinking about the mystery of Tom Fuentes’ occupation. Just what does this man do for a living? In documents, he states that he is a consultant. But what does that mean? Well, sometimes it seems to mean that he helps companies, and sometimes individuals, to get what they want—lucrative contracts, government positions, etc. Near as I can tell, Fuentes has had a series of jobs that include stuff that has routinely invited suspicions of dire corruptophilic hinkyhood.
Fuentes performed mostly personnel work for the firm and sometimes lobbied public agencies for contracts. Evidently, at some point in the last ten years, Fuentes ceased his VP gig with T&A, but he still “consults” for them. Because I’m in a peevish mood, I shall close with this curious passage from Filkins’ 1996 article: In his drive to reduce the Democrats to political irrelevance, Fuentes has often taken on the role of GOP kingmaker.
Yeah. SEE Guiding with an Iron Hand (LA Times, 1996) O.C. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), Volume 27, Number 2. 1.2.3 Process - Experiences of learning mathematics. Advantages of open source processes for reliability: clarifying the issues - City Research Online. SPIP-OSS.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt) Icse03-ws-opensource.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt) Notizen zur Keynote "Open Source Processes - lessons for the industry" Social peer-to-peer processes. Allura is an open platform for open processes — Allura documentation. Rather than build yet another forge, we decided to do something new. We wanted to build a new kind of extensible forge, and a new set of highly integrated forge tools. It’s easy to get frustrated with existing development tools. Too often they are overbearing, complex, and make assumptions that get in your way.
And even if they are open source, it’s often difficult to get them to work the way you need them too. Which is why we created Allura. It’s open in bunch of ways: It’s a combination of tools available under Free or Open Source licenses.It’s designed around a plugin architecture, and anybody willing to contribute a tool can play.It’s being hosted publicly, and is built through contributions of individuals and companies who want to promote Open Source development.It’s designed to provide a structure around which welcoming (open) communities can grow.Its core tools are designed around inclusive development processes. Open the processes and the "books"
Why is discussing salary so taboo? The systems are frequently indefensible. Although we have a desire for salary administration to be a meritocracy, base salaries are not performance based reflecting instead a number of factors including market conditions at time of hire, longevity, ability to negotiate and cost of living increases. Systems grow and are “patched” over time, what may have once made sense no longer does. In a command and control culture, information is secretive.
Salaries and money are emotionally charged. Why is openness about money so difficult? In Your Brain at Work, David Rock describes how the human brain is attuned to status at a primal level: "A perceived threat to status feels as if it could come with terrible consequences. In most corporate environments, the strongest symbols of status often involve money -- who earns the most, and who controls the most. Why don’t we open up the financial systems?
Processes | Open Health Informatics. The final piece of the Open Health Informatics jigsaw is the use of open development processes. Open source software is most usually constructed using an agile software development process, with continuous builds, automated testing and open issue logs. There is nowhere to hide in such a development process – what you see is, quite literally, what you get and if you want something different you can either contribute through the existing development community, or do it yourself. But open development processes, as embodied by agile methodologies such as Scrum, can deliver more than just software products. They can deliver solutions on time and within budget, through a true partnership between customer and supplier. So how can agile methodologies deliver openness in the process of systems development and solution delivery? IT project managers often make reference to the Project Triangle — combining the three variables of resources (equating to timescale and cost), scope and quality.
Open Processes Wiki. Visiting open processes when killing emacs. Open processes. Open processes. Social BPM: Gateway to Enhanced Process Efficiency | Virtusa. With the world getting more ‘social’, individuals are transforming the way they go about their daily lives. Businesses have recognized the need to rethink their strategies and reevaluate their operating models and have commenced to align them with customer expectations and customers’ perception of value. From focusing only on optimization of supply chains, penetration of new markets and scaled bottom lines, companies are now opening their eyes to the new world – a world which is moving towards a greater impetus on having a more social identity.
Today, people across the globe rely on social networks for finding lost friends, making new ones, buying new furniture and selling antiques — interacting with technology for almost every activity in their everyday life. You no longer get a wedding invite delivered by post to your doorstep; you get an event invite via Facebook delivered to your inbox! Social BPM. 8inShare By brian | January 24, 2012 | Social Applications Of course, this is a tongue-in-cheek question. Nonetheless, there is a lot of pressure on the BPM industry right now to jump on the “Social” bandwagon and this begs the question of whether or not this is a good idea?
What is really at the root of the “social” juggernaut? It seems clear to me that the root of the change is the Generation Y, and the way this generation has changed technology and expectations around the usage of technology. Generation Y has set new expectations of how technology should work and more importantly how it should work for the individual (remember Egypt?). The long tail was really the first manifestation of the coming age of “social”. The wiki and the self-publishing explosion were part of the same trend. The mobile app represented the leap of this phenomenon from the desktop and onto the mobile device, i.e. the merger of long tail and the mobile phone. So what is Social BPM? Ok, I exaggerate. Social BPM. Phil Gilbert on Social BPM and Operational Decision Management at IBM Impact 2012.
Buchtipps. Software-Anbieter. Blog posts & articles. Veranstaltungen. News - Open processes drive growth and connectivity. The Genius of the Internet: Open processes drive growth and connectivity The explosive growth of the Internet since the 1980s has been far faster than the growth of any other communications medium -faster than the spread of the telephone, radio, television, or even cellular telephones. This growth has been possible largely because of the open processes that have supported the development of Internet technologies and the administration of Internet resources.
The continued success of the Internet as a public communications infrastructure depends on maintaining these open processes while building on the extensive experience of the organizations that facilitate them. Who's in charge of the Internet? No one is in charge of the Internet and yet everyone is in charge of the Internet. One such community is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF develops the standards that provide the technological foundation for the Internet. Join the Internet Society today: www.isoc.org/members.