?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Process+Complexity%3A+Towards+a+Theory+of+Intent-oriented+Process+Design&rft.creator=Qusaibaty%2C+Ammar&rft.creator=Howard%2C+Newton&rft.creator=Rolland%2C+Colette&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=This+paper+attempts+to+formulate+basic+building+blocks+of+an+intent-oriented+process+design+theory.+Motivated+by+process+engineering+literature%2C+this+work+extends+the+notion+of+process+to+an+interactive+algorithm+that+executes+relational+order+according+to+environmental+rules+and+conditions+to+satisfy+an+intention.+This+generalization+of+process+takes+into+account+physical+and+metaphysical+environments.++To+classify+processes+beyond+the+activity%2C+product%2C+decision%2C+and+context+oriented+categories+of+process+models%2C+process+complexity+is+defined+by+adopting+an+object-oriented+view+of+situations+and+actions.+Action-types+and+situation-types+are+mathematically+formulated.+This+view+of+situations+and+actions+concludes+that+process+complexity+is+caused+by+group+representation+of+objects+and+group+inter-dynamics+as+formed+by+individual+representation+of+objects+and+individual+intra-dynamics+then+vice+versa.+An+extension+of+intention+theory+that+considers+group+and+individual+representations+with+inter-dynamics+and+intra-dynamics+is+concluded.+An+extended+Nash+Equilibrium+approach+is+recommended+as+a+future+direction+to+solve+group+and+individual+intention+dominance.+This+work+recommends+an+abstract+view+of+process+actors+as+complex+systems+consisting+of+stable+and+modular+subsystems.+This+abstract+view+includes+human+agents%2C+information+systems%2C+and+organizations+%E2%80%93+groups+of+human+agents+and+information+systems+executing+collective+actions.+This+work+views+process+actors+as+C3I3K+complex+systems+(for+Command%2C+Control%2C+Communications%2C+Intention%2C+Information%2C+Intelligence%2C+and+Knowledge).+A+basic+argument+for+the+evolution+of+C3I3K+complex+systems+is+outlined.+Finally%2C+a+model+of+the+environment+as+distributed+multilevel+infrastructures+(DMLI)+is+recommended+to+extend+the+four+world+model+of+process+engineering.+++++&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4877%2F1%2Faq_infos04_paper.pdf&rft.identifier=++Qusaibaty%2C+Ammar+and+Howard%2C+Newton+and+Rolland%2C+Colette++(2004)+Process+Complexity%3A+Towards+a+Theory+of+Intent-oriented+Process+Design.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4877%2F