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IJSKD
2011
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Socio-Technical Systems: A Meta-Design Perspective
Meta-design of socio-technical systems is an approach which complies with the need of integrating two different types of structures and processes: technical systems which are engi...
Gerhard Fischer, Thomas Herrmann
ISF
2002
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Language/Action Meets Organisational Semiotics: Situating Conversations with Norms
Abstract. Virtual professional communities require a strong coevolution of their social and information systems. To ensure that the evolutionary process of their socio-technical sy...
Aldo de Moor
IS
2007
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Formalizing the evolution of virtual communities
Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more comple...
Aldo de Moor, Hans Weigand
ITSSA
2006
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Self-Configuring Socio-Technical Systems: Redesign at Runtime
: Modern information systems are becoming more and more socio-technical systems, namely systems composed of human (social) agents and software (technical) systems operating togethe...
Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini
ECSCW
2001
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Harnessing complexity in CSCW
We argue that socio-technical systems can be understood as complex adaptive systems, that is, systems containing component sub-systems interacting such that they co-evolve This vie...
Simon M. Kaplan, Lesley Seebeck
MOBILWARE
2009
ACM
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Pervasive Adaptation in Car Crowds
Abstract. Advances in the miniaturization and embedding of electronics for microcomputing, communication and sensor/actuator systems, have fertilized the pervasion of technology in...
Alois Ferscha, Andreas Riener