Process arrangements for variety, retention, and selection
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Intricate decision-making processes can be improved through process management, which aims at introducing variety, retention and selection into the decision-making process. The process arrangement mechanisms like variety, retention and selection could be imitated in the decision-making process, thus allowing evolution to take place in the process, which will result in an improved decision.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2004
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Innovation in open source communities through processes of variation and selection
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The process in which developers belonging to the open source communities develop innovative software is analyzed, where the open source communities are considered to be self-organizing systems with high levels of variation. Selection also forms a part of the innovation as it is based on the principle of copying and following the tags.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2004
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