Hasil untuk "The performing arts. Show business"

Danuta Kuźnicka

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie wielowymiarowych formatów performatywnych site-specific, tworzonych przy realizacji spektakli D’ARC (2024) i Still Standing (2023), zapewniających ich powstanie, przebieg i odbiór. Autorka identyfikuje formaty performatywne w obszarach, które Miwon Kwon w książce One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity (2002) nazwała paradygmatami: fenomenologicznym, socjologicznym i dyskursywnym. Opisując aspekty doświadczeniowe i interpretacyjne odbioru, korzysta z ustaleń Mateusza Chaberskiego zawartych w pracy Doświadczenie (syn)estetyczne: Performatywne aspekty przedstawień site-specific (2015). O wyborze D’ARC i Still Standing zadecydowała nie tylko ich ranga artystyczna, ale także dwa typy pracy z przestrzenią: site-specific i site-generic, które reprezentują. W omówieniach spektakli zostało podkreślone przenikanie się paradygmatów Kwon, a wskazanie czynników formatotwórczych pozwala zauważyć wielość możliwości kreacyjnych i potencjał oddziaływania społecznego.

Ankolika De

This study examines how WhatsApp has evolved from a personal communication tool to a professional platform, focusing on its use by small business owners in India. Initially embraced in smaller, rural communities for its ease of use and familiarity, WhatsApp played a crucial role in local economies. However, as Meta introduced WhatsApp Business with new, formalized features, users encountered challenges in adapting to the more complex and costly platform. Interviews with 14 small business owners revealed that while they adapted creatively, they felt marginalized by the advanced tools. This research contributes to HCI literature by exploring the transition from personal to professional use and introduces the concept of Coercive Professionalization. It highlights how standardization by large tech companies affects marginalized users, exacerbating power imbalances and reinforcing digital colonialism, concluding with design implications for supporting community-based appropriations.

Cecil Pang

Contemporary businesses operate in dynamic environments requiring rapid adaptation to achieve goals and maintain competitiveness. Existing data platforms often fall short by emphasizing tools over alignment with business needs, resulting in inefficiencies and delays. To address this gap, I propose the Business Semantics Centric, AI Agents Assisted Data System (BSDS), a holistic system that integrates architecture, workflows, and team organization to ensure data systems are tailored to business priorities rather than dictated by technical constraints. BSDS redefines data systems as dynamic enablers of business success, transforming them from passive tools into active drivers of organizational growth. BSDS has a modular architecture that comprises curated data linked to business entities, a knowledge base for context-aware AI agents, and efficient data pipelines. AI agents play a pivotal role in assisting with data access and system management, reducing human effort, and improving scalability. Complementing this architecture, BSDS incorporates workflows optimized for both exploratory data analysis and production requirements, balancing speed of delivery with quality assurance. A key innovation of BSDS is its incorporation of the human factor. By aligning data team expertise with business semantics, BSDS bridges the gap between technical capabilities and business needs. Validated through real-world implementation, BSDS accelerates time-to-market for data-driven initiatives, enhances cross-functional collaboration, and provides a scalable blueprint for businesses of all sizes. Future research can build on BSDS to explore optimization strategies using complex systems and adaptive network theories, as well as developing autonomous data systems leveraging AI agents.

Gunnary Prado Coronado

Lukas Küng, George M. Giaglis

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are emerging innovative organizational structures, enabling collective coordination, and reshaping digital collaboration. Despite the promising and transformative characteristics of DAOs, the potential technological advancements and the understanding of the business value that organizations derive from implementing DAO characteristics are limited. This research applies a systematic review of DAOs' business applicability from an open systems perspective following a best-fit framework methodology. Within our approach, combining both framework and thematic analysis, we discuss how the open business principles apply to DAOs and present a new DAO business framework comprising of four core business elements: i) token, ii) transactions, iii) value system and iv) strategy with their corresponding sub-characteristics. This paper offers a preliminary DAO business framework that enhances the understanding of DAOs' transformative potential and guides organizations in innovating more inclusive business models (BMs), while also providing a theoretical foundation for researchers to build upon.

Michel Kunkler, Felix Schumann, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Business Process Management and Operations Research are two research fields that both aim to enhance value creation in organizations. While Business Process Management has historically emphasized on providing precise models, Operations Research has focused on constructing tractable models and their solutions. This systematic literature review identifies and analyzes work that uses combined concepts from both disciplines. In particular, it analyzes how business process models have been conceptualized as mathematical models and which optimization techniques have been applied to these models. Results indicate a strong focus on resource allocation and scheduling problems. Current approaches often lack support of the stochastic nature of many problems, and do only sparsely use information from process models or from event logs, such as resource-related information or information from the data perspective.

Adem Alparslan

This study examines conversational business analytics, an approach that utilizes AI to address the technical competency gaps that hinder end users from effectively using traditional self-service analytics. By facilitating natural language interactions, conversational business analytics aims to empower end users to independently retrieve data and generate insights. The analysis focuses on Text-to-SQL as a representative technology for translating natural language requests into SQL statements. Developing theoretical models grounded in expected utility theory, this study identifies the conditions under which conversational business analytics, through partial or full support, can outperform delegation to human experts. The results indicate that partial support, focusing solely on information generation by AI, is viable when the accuracy of AI-generated SQL queries leads to a profit that surpasses the performance of a human expert. In contrast, full support includes not only information generation but also validation through explanations provided by the AI, and requires sufficiently high validation effectiveness to be reliable. However, user-based validation presents challenges, such as misjudgment and rejection of valid SQL queries, which may limit the effectiveness of conversational business analytics. These challenges underscore the need for robust validation mechanisms, including improved user support, automated processes, and methods for assessing quality independent of the technical competency of end users.

Andrea Zugarini, Andrew Zamai, Marco Ernandes et al.

Albeit Natural Language Processing has seen major breakthroughs in the last few years, transferring such advances into real-world business cases can be challenging. One of the reasons resides in the displacement between popular benchmarks and actual data. Lack of supervision, unbalanced classes, noisy data and long documents often affect real problems in vertical domains such as finance, law and health. To support industry-oriented research, we present BUSTER, a BUSiness Transaction Entity Recognition dataset. The dataset consists of 3779 manually annotated documents on financial transactions. We establish several baselines exploiting both general-purpose and domain-specific language models. The best performing model is also used to automatically annotate 6196 documents, which we release as an additional silver corpus to BUSTER.

Ignacio Lucia

Como han observado algunas lecturas críticas de las obras teatrales de Copi, en ellas parecen predominar los lugares cerrados como espacios dramáticos: los personajes están siempre recluidos en un interior (en general una habitación u otro tipo de encierro) y amenazados por un exterior peligroso. Esta oposición coincidiría, en principio, con la oposición entre “espacio escénico” y “espacio extraescénico”. Estas categorías analíticas, válidas para la interpretación de cualquier obra teatral, resultan especialmente interesantes en la producción teatral de Copi, por cuanto permiten pensar cuestiones relacionadas con algunos de sus temas principales, en especial los de la identidad y del cuerpo, y la distinción entre interior y exterior de la subjetividad.

Jelena Novak

Review-essay of the film opera Upload and the chamber music theater piece The Book of Water by Michel van der Aa.

Linyue Liu, Xi Guo, Chun Ouyang et al.

With the continuous development of business process management technology, the increasing business process models are usually owned by large enterprises. In large enterprises, different stakeholders may modify the same business process model. In order to better manage the changeability of processes, they adopt configurable business process models to manage process variants. However, the process variants will vary with the change in enterprise business demands. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the co-evolution of the process variants so as to effectively manage the business process family. To this end, a novel framework for co-evolution between business process variants through a configurable process model is proposed in this work. First, the mapping relationship between process variants and configurable models is standardized in this study. A series of change operations and change propagation operations between process variants and configurable models are further defined for achieving propagation. Then, an overall algorithm is proposed for achieving co-evolution of process variants. Next, a prototype is developed for managing change synchronization between process variants and configurable process models. Finally, the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed process change propagation method are verified based on experiments on two business process datasets. The experimental results show that our approach implements the co-evolution of process variants with high accuracy and efficiency.

Andrea Russo

Having a good reputation is paramount for most organisations and companies. In fact, having an optimal corporate image allows them to have better transaction relationships with various customers and partners. However, such reputation is hard to build and easy to destroy for all kind of business commercial activities (B2C, B2B, B2B2C, B2G). A misunderstanding during the communication process to the customers, or just a bad communication strategy, can lead to a disaster for the entire company. This is emphasised by the reaction of millions of people on social networks, which can be very detrimental for the corporate image if they react negatively to a certain event. This is called a firestorm. In this paper, I propose a well-organised strategy for firestorm attacks on organisations, also showing how an adversary can leverage them to obtain private information on the attacked firm. Standard business security procedures are not designed to operate against multi-domain attacks; therefore, I will show how it is possible to bypass the classic and advised security procedures by operating different kinds of attack. I also propose a different firestorm attack, targeting a specific business company network in an efficient way. Finally, I present defensive procedures to reduce the negative effect of firestorms on a company.

Santosh Palaskar, Vijay Ekambaram, Arindam Jati et al.

The efficiency of business processes relies on business key performance indicators (Biz-KPIs), that can be negatively impacted by IT failures. Business and IT Observability (BizITObs) data fuses both Biz-KPIs and IT event channels together as multivariate time series data. Forecasting Biz-KPIs in advance can enhance efficiency and revenue through proactive corrective measures. However, BizITObs data generally exhibit both useful and noisy inter-channel interactions between Biz-KPIs and IT events that need to be effectively decoupled. This leads to suboptimal forecasting performance when existing multivariate forecasting models are employed. To address this, we introduce AutoMixer, a time-series Foundation Model (FM) approach, grounded on the novel technique of channel-compressed pretrain and finetune workflows. AutoMixer leverages an AutoEncoder for channel-compressed pretraining and integrates it with the advanced TSMixer model for multivariate time series forecasting. This fusion greatly enhances the potency of TSMixer for accurate forecasts and also generalizes well across several downstream tasks. Through detailed experiments and dashboard analytics, we show AutoMixer's capability to consistently improve the Biz-KPI's forecasting accuracy (by 11-15\%) which directly translates to actionable business insights.

Julie Beth Napolin

Review of Sound Objects. Edited by James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN 9781478001454 (paperback).

Samir Reyad-Mamdoh

This research proposes to study a theatrical experience conducted in a group to explore the potential of theatrical work. A working protocol was established: training to work on dynamic positions, contact and body plasticity, and preparation for the theatrical game, conducted with the aim of establishing the distance between the actors and the events that affect them, in order to overcome them. Theatrical action was a source of discovery, of working on oneself, an effective means of helping them to be free, sharing their feelings, controlling their fragility, recovering an ability to act until then ignored. They rebuilt themselves, finding self-confidence and re-appropriating other skills and attitudes. It is a path that can lead to resilience. Our empirical study combines two intrinsic dimensions: theory, allowing us to think about our approach and include it in a reflective process; and the practice that offers us the possibility to carry out an experience of working on the stage, in the exploration of personal goals and inhibitions.   Keywords Resilience. Revival. Theatrical Potentials. Collective Creation.

Inés Moguillanes

Este artículo toma como objeto de estudio a Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, un registro audiovisual del show de stand up del mismo nombre creado por Gadsby, disponible en Netflix. Dicho registro es concebido no como un sucedáneo del hecho espectacular, sino como una aproximación a él, resultado de un análisis particular, basado en elecciones interpretativas y estilísticas. En tal sentido, la intención será dar cuenta a lo largo del trabajo de dos escrituras -la audiovisual y la teatral-, así como de su interacción. En cuanto a la escritura escénica puntualmente, se observa que con Nanette la comediante rompe en cierta medida con el stand up, una de las variantes del teatro unipersonal. Por lo que un segundo propósito consistirá en caracterizar la estructura formal propia de esta modalidad, primero, para luego señalar cómo el espectáculo en cuestión la pone en crisis. Por último, Gadsby no sólo provoca quiebres respecto de un género teatral; sino también en lo que respecta a la concepción binaria del género y las etiquetas generadas a su alrededor. Su discurso puede vincularse con la obra teórica de Judith Butler así como con la teoría queer. Evidenciar esas conexiones será el tercer objetivo de este trabajo.

Cecilia Elia Levantesi

Dentro de la producción escénica existe una línea interesada en el trabajo con objetos, donde la danza ha realizado aportes en este sentido. Los objetos en las artes del movimiento en particular y en las artes escénicas en general han formado parte integral de los cambios que ambas zonas del arte han sufrido en el transcurso del siglo XX, por lo que, los objetos, no se pueden concebir por fuera de ellas. En consecuencia, se plantea el interés por llevar a cabo un análisis diacrónico de los objetos en la danza a partir de las Vanguardias Artísticas de principio de siglo pasado con el fin de reconocer los momentos de cambio o de producción de novedad. Por consiguiente, en este artículo se aborda este análisis, a partir de una operación de deconstrucción de la obra artística con el objeto de analizar: las características del objeto seleccionado, las relaciones de interacción sujeto – objeto, el estatuto de funcionamiento del mismo en la construcción de sentido de la obra  y su interrelación con otros elementos constitutivos del hecho escénico, considerando como referencia algunas obras de este período: Parade (1917), La mesa Verde (1932), Lamentation (1930), Ballet Triádico (1922) .

Paulo Caldas

A partir da afirmação de uma concepção dinâmica do espaço e do reconhecimento da linha como seu elemento generativo recorrente, o ensaio aborda concepções de Rudolf Laban e seus prolongamentos nos processos investigativos de William Forsythe. Palavras-chaves Rudolf Laban. William Forsythe. Coreografia. Espaço. Linha.

Peter Schrammel

Most businesses rely on a significant stack of software to perform their daily operations. This software is business-critical as defects in this software have major impacts on revenue and customer satisfaction. The primary means for verification of this software is testing. We conducted an extensive analysis of Java software packages to evaluate their unit-testability. The results show that code in software repositories is typically split into portions of very trivial code, non-trivial code that is unit-testable, and code that cannot be unit-tested easily. This brings up interesting considerations regarding the use of test coverage metrics and design for testability, which is crucial for testing efficiency and effectiveness. Lack of unit-testability is an obstacle to applying tools that perform automated verification and test generation. These tools cannot make up for poor testability of the code and have a hard time in succeeding or are not even applicable without first improving the design of the software system.

Leonie Persyn

In this article I wonder whether the non-breath in-between inhalation and exhalation and inherent to breathing equals what Hannah Arendt calls a space of appearance. Can the non-breath be considered as a place where human plurality and the self emerge (Arendt 2015, 160-163)? Or in other words, can a daily and habitual movement like breathing provide the space for action to appear? Can our breathing act? And if so, do we speak (up) through our breathing? Through listening to the breathing bodies in Grey (Kinga Jaczewska, 2018), Toute une nuit and Rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1982 1978) I search for answers to these questions.