Promise Theory

If services are fundamentally promise-based systems - where capabilities promise performance and resources promise affordance - what happens when promises break? And more troublingly: what happens...

The design systems framework I have been developing includes events as one of eight core elements, defined following Gärdenfors (2017) as atomic cause-effect triggers with a force vector and a result...

The previous post concluded that the Motivational Design Framework lacked a unifying architecture - that the synthesis of SDT, discrepancy theory, ARCS, flow, and Dreyfus was ad hoc rather than...

This post was originally written in November 2024. It has since been revised to include cross-references to the companion Language, Frames, and Domain Understanding series - on case grammar,...

The previous post introduced Promise Theory - Mark Burgess's framework for understanding cooperation between autonomous agents. Promises are voluntary commitments; services are networks of kept...

The previous posts - particularly Conceptual Spaces, What is a State Space?, and Graphs and Service Representations - have explored state spaces: what they are, how they are constructed, and how they...

The previous post introduced domain engineering - the design work of constructing the representational infrastructure that computational systems presuppose - and identified it as the series' central...