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references g-h
Topic:
rules
Topic:
organizations as systems
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systems
Topic:
concurrency
Topic:
Petri net transitions and events
Topic:
roles
Topic:
event time

Reference

Holt, A.W., "Roles and activities. A system for describing systems", unpublished monograph, March 30, 1979. Google

Notes

Holt's blue papers

Quotations
i ;;Quote: a coordination science of laws about realizable rules--what rules work
6 ;;Quote: a system is those aspects of an organization that can be described and analyzed by formal means
17 ;;Quote: coincidence in a system occurs when one transition always occurs with another; e.g., enter a train as leave the platform
21 ;;Quote: coincident transitions imply that two roles interact in a common activity; the transitions express the same fact
24 ;;Quote: an interaction occurs when all the needed resources are present; represent by moving markers from pre-states to post-states
27 ;;Quote: a system's transitions and interactions impose a temporal ordering on events
28 ;;Quote: while concurrent occurrences are at the same time, the time window increases with the distance between them in system space
40 ;;Quote: when a thing transfers between roles, a negative thing transfers in the opposite direction; e.g., credit/debit

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ThesaHelp: references g-h (299 items)
Topic: rules (43 items)
Topic: organizations as systems (28 items)
Group: systems   (17 topics, 526 quotes)
Topic: concurrency (33 items)
Topic: Petri net transitions and events (21 items)
Topic: roles (20 items)
Topic: event time (44 items)

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