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Legal Procedures as Formal Conversations: Contracting on a Performative Network
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Viewing procedures as formal conversations, this paper presents a representation schema and grammar to model these conversations and initiate the development of a formal language by which users can cooperate, negotiate, and make commitments over a performative network.Abstract:
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a telecommunications system that many view as the next major productivity gain made possible by information technology. This paper discusses how our semantic, procedure-oriented view of business transactions leads to a different kind of telecommunications system -- a performative network. Viewing procedures as formal conversations, we present a representation schema and grammar to model these conversations and initiate the development of a formal language by which users can cooperate, negotiate, and make commitments over a performative network. Our approach complements and extends EDI's syntactic, record-format orientation, seeking to express not only the data transmitted through these transactions but also the semantics of the procedures themselves.read more
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A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies
TL;DR: This paper analyses the fundamental philosophical assumptions of five "contrasting" information systems development (ISD) approaches: the interactionist approach, the speech act-based approach; the soft systems methodology approach,The trade unionist approach; and the professional work practice approach.
Analyzing information systems development: a comparison and analysis of eight is development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed eight IS development approaches: Information Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Socio-Technical Approach, Infological Approach, Interactionist approach, Speech Act-based approach, Soft Systems Methodology and the Scandinavian Trade Unionist approach.
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Analyzing information systems development: a comparison and analysis of eight IS development approaches
Juhani Iivari,Rudy Hirschheim +1 more
TL;DR: While the objective and subjective views dominate the established traditions, only the Speech Act-based approach and Soft Systems Methodology among the emerging approaches seem to emphasize the intersubjective nature of information requirements.
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A semantics for speech arts
TL;DR: In this article, a formal semantics for speech acts is presented that relates their satisfaction to the intentions, know-how, and actions of the participating agents, which makes it possible to state several potentially useful constraints on communication and provides a basis for checking their consistency.
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Designing trustworthy interorganizational trade procedures for open electronic commerce
TL;DR: This article presents the first steps toward establishing a theory on the auditing of interorganizational trade procedures and shows how this theory could be supported using an automated tool, and it demonstrates how this analysis process is conducted automatically.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this article. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Alice Koller,John R. Searle +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this paper. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
TL;DR: John Searle presents the first formalised logic of a general theory of speech acts, dealing with such things as the nature of an illocutionary force, the logical form of its components, and the conditions of success of elementary illocutions.