title: Serendipity: integrated environment support for process modelling, enactment and improvement

authors: Grundy, John C.

subjects: computer science

abstract: Large cooperative work systems require work coordination, context awareness and process modelling and enactment mechanisms to be effective. The Serendipity environment provides visual languages for specifying process models and event processing. Enacted models can be modified during or after use and can act as plans of work to be done, describe work in progress, and record work done on a project. Serendipity has been integrated with an Information Systems engineering environment and office automation applications, without modification to these pre-existing tools. Animation of process models allows collaborating users to remain aware of the work contexts of their collaborators. Information about the current enacted process stage is attached to descriptions of changes made to work artefacts, recording the context of work. Such changes are also stored by the process stage, allowing collaborators to review the stage work history. Serendipity's visual event processing language allows users to specify rules and actions triggered by enactment, process or work artefact modification, or tool events. This paper describes Serendipity, our experiences using it, and its architecture and implementation.

text: Serendipity: integrated environment support for process modelling, enactment and improvement Large cooperative work systems require work coordination, context awareness and process modelling and enactment mechanisms to be effective. The Serendipity environment provides visual languages for specifying process models and event processing. Enacted models can be modified during or after use and can act as plans of work to be done, describe work in progress, and record work done on a project. Serendipity has been integrated with an Information Systems engineering environment and office automation applications, without modification to these pre-existing tools. Animation of process models allows collaborating users to remain aware of the work contexts of their collaborators. Information about the current enacted process stage is attached to descriptions of changes made to work artefacts, recording the context of work. Such changes are also stored by the process stage, allowing collaborators to review the stage work history. Serendipity's visual event processing language allows users to specify rules and actions triggered by enactment, process or work artefact modification, or tool events. This paper describes Serendipity, our experiences using it, and its architecture and implementation.

year: 1996-08

title: Not so scholarly but certainly on-message: the leadership BES and its significant silences

authors: Thrupp, Martin

subjects: New Zealand

abstract: This article suggests that the Leadership BES is intended to provide the intellectual underpinning for the Ministry of Education's preferred model of school leadership in New Zealand. Nevertheless, the instrumental 'what works' approach taken by the BES represents only a constrained and conservative research agenda which leaves out structural and political perspectives on school leadership. A number of points drawn from the introductory and main chapters of the BES are used to illustrate the problem. The article concludes by noting topics and authors which would have provided balance if included in the BES.

text: Not so scholarly but certainly on-message: the leadership BES and its significant silences This article suggests that the Leadership BES is intended to provide the intellectual underpinning for the Ministry of Education's preferred model of school leadership in New Zealand. Nevertheless, the instrumental 'what works' approach taken by the BES represents only a constrained and conservative research agenda which leaves out structural and political perspectives on school leadership. A number of points drawn from the introductory and main chapters of the BES are used to illustrate the problem. The article concludes by noting topics and authors which would have provided balance if included in the BES.

year: 2010

title: Bones | Iwi

authors: Apiata, Hāwea

abstract: Poetry written at Kāwhia featured in Issue 6 of The Quick Brown Dog Journal published by Hagley Writers' Institute, Christchurch, NZ.

text: Bones | Iwi Poetry written at Kāwhia featured in Issue 6 of The Quick Brown Dog Journal published by Hagley Writers' Institute, Christchurch, NZ.

year: 2024-03-08