Design memories as evolutionary systems: socio-technical architecture and genetics

Author

Faro, Alberto ; Giordano, Daniela

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Catania Univ., Italy

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

4334

Abstract

A knowledge base consisting of design cases has been structured into an organizational memory, which has been supporting a community of novices to learn information system (IS) for six years. The paper discusses why the organizational learning process, which is taking place, can be described as a genetic system that evolves towards the best quality attainable, and by means of a simulation examines the role of some components of this socio-technical system (i.e. features of the organizational memory, teacher ability and memetic processes in the community) in steering this evolution. Some indications for the design of socio-technical systems supported by design memories are pointed out.

Keywords

computer science education; information systems; intelligent tutoring systems; teaching; design memory; evolutionary systems; genetic system; information system; memetic process; organizational learning process; organizational memory; socio-technical system; teacher ability; Decision making; Employment; Genetics; Information systems; Learning systems; Organizing; Problem-solving; Production; Sociotechnical systems; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1245666

Filename

1245666