“…Consistent with the syntax view of information, which characterizes the vast majority of these papers (84%), these papers assume that systems can achieve a state of (dynamic) equilibrium with their environment. The premise style is mostly based on practical problems related to different areas of concern such as software development (Chiang & Mookerjee, 2004;Port & Bui, 2009), IT service pricing (Das, Du, Gopal, & Ramesh, 2010;Sen, Raghu, & Vinze, 2009), risk management (Hu, Shao, Hua, & Wong, 2012;Hua & Bapna, 2013;Kumar, Park, & Subramaniam, 2008), and dynamic resource allocation (Ba, Stallaert, & Zhang, 2010;Velu, Madnick, & Van Alstyne, 2013). The inference style is mostly based on the literature concerning equilibrium models (e.g., game theory, differential equations, etc.)…”