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Most activities are anticipated before they are executed. The paper presents methods for describing this anticipated state and the processes that may lead to a new state where the activities are executed. The method builds on linguistic case-theory.
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Andersen, P.B. (2004). Anticipated Activities. In: Liu, K. (eds) Virtual, Distributed and Flexible Organisations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2162-3_3
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