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...
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...
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...
: Modern information systems are becoming more and more socio-technical systems, namely systems composed of human (social) agents and software (technical) systems operating togethe...
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...
Abstract. Advances in the miniaturization and embedding of electronics for microcomputing, communication and sensor/actuator systems, have fertilized the pervasion of technology in...