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Decision Taking versus Promise Issuing
Jan A. Bergstra
An alignment is developed between the terminology of outcome oriented decision taking and a terminology for promise issuing. Differences and correspondences are investigated betwee…
Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science
Jan A. Bergstra
Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of…
Decision Taking for Selling Thread Startup
Jan A. Bergstra
Decision Taking is discussed in the context of the role it may play for a selling agent in a search market, in particular for agents involved in the sale of valuable and relatively…
Decision Taking versus Action Determination
Jan A. Bergstra
Decision taking is discussed in the context of the role it may play for various types of agents, and it is contrasted with action determination. Some remarks are made about the rol…
Decision Taking as a Service
Jan A. Bergstra
Decision taking can be performed as a service to other parties and it is amenable to outtasking rather than to outsourcing. Outtasking decision taking is compatible with selfsourci…
Four Conceptions of Instruction Sequence Faults
Jan A. Bergstra
The notion of an instruction sequence fault is considered from various perspectives. Four different viewpoints on what constitutes a fault, or how to use the notion of a fault, are…
About Instruction Sequence Testing
J. A. Bergstra
Software testing is presented as a so-called theme within which different authors and groups have defined different subjects each of these subjects having a different focus on test…
Stratified Outsourcing Theory
J. A. Bergstra, G. P. A. J. Delen, S. F. M. van Vlijmen
The terminology of sourcing, outsourcing and insourcing is developed in detail on the basis of the preliminary definitions of outsourcing and insourcing and related activities and…
Introducing Sourcements
J. A. Bergstra, G. P. A. J. Delen, S. F. M. van Vlijmen
Sourcing processes are discussed at a high abstraction level. A dedicated terminology is developed concerning general aspects of sourcing. The term sourcement is coined to denote a…
Business Mereology: Imaginative Definitions of Insourcing and Outsourcing Transformations
J. A. Bergstra, S. F. M. van Vlijmen
Outsourcing, the passing on of tasks by organizations to other organizations, often including the personnel and means to perform these tasks, has become an important IT-business st…
Informal Control code logic
Jan A. Bergstra
General definitions as well as rules of reasoning regarding control code production, distribution, deployment, and usage are described. The role of testing, trust, confidence and r…
Machine structure oriented control code logic
J. A. Bergstra, C. A. Middelburg
Control code is a concept that is closely related to a frequently occurring practitioner's view on what is a program: code that is capable of controlling the behaviour of some mach…
Interface groups and financial transfer architectures
Jan A. Bergstra, Alban Ponse
Analytic execution architectures have been proposed by the same authors as a means to conceptualize the cooperation between heterogeneous collectives of components such as programs…