scholarly journals Analyzing the Communicability of Configuration Decision Space Over Time in Collaborative Systems through a Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Raquel Oliveira Prates ◽  
Mary Beth Rosson ◽  
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Modeling Language ◽  
Collaborative Systems ◽  
System State ◽  
Decision Space ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Inspection Method ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

Some configuration settings have immediate impact on system state; others have impact over time. In collaborative systems, the timeline of impacts can be even more complex, because changes may impact not only the user who made them but also other users. In this paper, we analyze the challenges involved in specifying configuration in collaborative systems that have impact over time. To do so, we have chosen Google Inactive Account Manager (IAM) as a case study, since it offers a limited set of decisions, but that addresses different aspects that are relevant to future impact configuration. In order to generate a thorough and systematic analysis of the communicability of Google IAM’s decision space we used the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) and the Configurable Interaction Anticipation Challenges (CIAC), as well as the Modeling Language for Interactive Collaborative Conversations (MoLICC). Our results describe and explain some of the main issues associated to the complexity of decisions that users may take in during a configuration task.

scholarly journals The Multi-Pattern Approach for Systematic Analysis of Transition Pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fjalar De Haan ◽  
Briony Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Pattern Approach ◽  
Transition Pathways ◽  
Central Notion ◽  
Case Comparison ◽  
High Level ◽  
Over Time

Pathways have become a central notion in various areas of research, amongst which are the studies of transitions to sustainability. Though various typologies and concepts are available, a framework for systematic analysis of transition pathways is lacking. We present the Multi-Pattern Approach (MPA) to fill this lacuna and provide a step-by-step manual for its application. The MPA addresses a range of traditional challenges of transitions’ pathway analysis, such as temporal and functional system demarcation and the unravelling of complex, interrelated systemic storylines. The approach provides an oft-called for rigour which allows a diagrammatic and formulaic representation of transitions’ pathways. Because of these qualities, the approach allows systematic cross-case comparison and provides a bridge between narrative-based and computational transitions research. The approach is demonstrated with an in-depth empirical case study of water management in Melbourne, Australia over the last 180 years. The article first presents a high-level mapping of the system’s evolution over time and a detailed analysis of the uptake and phasing out of specific servicing technologies and practices.

scholarly journals Ecodesign from High School to Bachelor Level: A French Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3261-3270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Perpignan ◽  
Vincent Robin ◽  
Yacine Baouch ◽  
Benoit Eynard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
French Case ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

AbstractNowadays, our society needs that an awareness be made about our impact on the planet. Many more or less alarmist reports tell us that there is a need to change our consumption patterns, production and energy consumption … One of the main axes to achieve these goals is education. Thus integrating sustainable development into the skills of future engineers is an essential challenge but above all a necessity to modify and reduce our impact on the environment and to allow a global understanding of the complexity of our society. For this, companies must also evolve. Some will do so in a strategy of greening their image, others will have to comply with the various regulations of their sector of activity and a final category of these companies will use this opportunity as a vector of innovation. Each at their level will make a contribution, the integration over time of new sustainability skills within their staff will expand their action. In this article, we will focus our study on the integration of ecodesign in the industry and the impact that this generates in terms of skills to acquire, values to evolve and knowledge to master.

Loosening the Ties that Bind: A Learning Model of Agreement Flexibility

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Koremenos
Keyword(s):  
Formal Model ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
New Information ◽  
Limited Duration ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

How can states credibly make and keep agreements when they are uncertain about the distributional implications of their cooperation? They can do so by incorporating the proper degree of flexibility into their agreements. I develop a formal model in which an agreement characterized by uncertainty may be renegotiated to incorporate new information. The uncertainty is related to the division of gains under the agreement, with the parties resolving this uncertainty over time as they gain experience with the agreement. The greater the agreement uncertainty, the more likely states will want to limit the duration of the agreement and incorporate renegotiation. Working against renegotiation is noise—that is, variation in outcomes not resulting from the agreement. The greater the noise, the more difficult it is to learn how an agreement is actually working; hence, incorporating limited duration and renegotiation provisions becomes less valuable. In a detailed case study, I demonstrate that the form of uncertainty in my model corresponds to that experienced by the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, who adopted the solution my model predicts.

scholarly journals Constructing victimhood in divided Germany: The case of the Association of the Victims of Stalinism (1950–1989)

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Historical Injustice ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Divided Germany ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

Taking the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus (Association of the Victims of Stalinism) as a case study, this article argues that civil society organisations which claim to represent the interests of victims of historical injustice must seek to construct and propagate notions of the political and social relevance of victimhood. They must do so in such a way that victimhood both offers a coherent point of identification for individual victims and speaks to the concerns of the political system on which victims rely for compensation and recognition. By examining the discourse of officials of this organisation over time, it is possible to demonstrate the extent to which victims’ representatives must adapt their conception of victimhood in order to respond to changing circumstances. The article also points to the challenges these organisations face in remaining relevant in the new political contexts.

scholarly journals Causal analysis procedure focused on small software development organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Yohanna Zúñiga-Silva ◽  
Carlos Alberto Ardila-Albarracín ◽  
Francisco José Pino-Correa
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Arduous Task ◽  
Do So

Very Small Entities (VSE) dedicated to software development lack of enough resources to adopt causal analysis practices, defined in models as CMMI, due to their complexity and costs. It is important to detect the generated defects in the development process, and to make a systematic analysis aimed at determining its causes. However, identifying those root causes is an arduous task, and failing to do so leads to wrong decisions that either fail to solve the problem or even make it worse. On this basis, this paper proposes a causal analysis procedure focused on small organizations PAC-DS (according to its initials in Spanish), which includes activities aimed at identifying the defects causes. After its evaluation in a preliminary case study, the utility of the procedure was evidenced.

scholarly journals Memetic Moments

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Naomi Smith ◽  
Simon Copland
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Temporal Patterns ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

This paper examines how speed shapes internet culture. To do so, it analyses ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter, short-lived and rapidly circulated memes that quickly reach saturation. The paper examines two ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter in 2018 and 2019 to assess how they develop over time. Each case study comprises a week’s worth of relevant tweets that were analysed for temporal patterns. We analyse these ‘memetic moments’ through Lefebvre’s (2004) work on rhythmanalysis, arguing that the temporal patterns of memes on Twitter can be understood through his concepts of repetition, presence and dialogue. While seemingly trivial, memetic moments underscore the didactic relationship between social media and news media while also providing a way to approach complex social issues.

scholarly journals Info-Gap robustness pathway method for transitioning of urban drainage systems under deep uncertainties

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 1272-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonatan Zischg ◽  
Mariana L. R. Goncalves ◽  
Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin ◽  
Günther Leonhardt ◽  
Maria Viklander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
System State ◽  
Network Layout ◽  
Urban Water Cycle ◽  
Over Time

In the urban water cycle, there are different ways of handling stormwater runoff. Traditional systems mainly rely on underground piped, sometimes named ‘gray’ infrastructure. New and so-called ‘green/blue’ ambitions aim for treating and conveying the runoff at the surface. Such concepts are mainly based on ground infiltration and temporal storage. In this work a methodology to create and compare different planning alternatives for stormwater handling on their pathways to a desired system state is presented. Investigations are made to assess the system performance and robustness when facing the deeply uncertain spatial and temporal developments in the future urban fabric, including impacts caused by climate change, urbanization and other disruptive events, like shifts in the network layout and interactions of ‘gray’ and ‘green/blue’ structures. With the Info-Gap robustness pathway method, three planning alternatives are evaluated to identify critical performance levels at different stages over time. This novel methodology is applied to a real case study problem where a city relocation process takes place during the upcoming decades. In this case study it is shown that hybrid systems including green infrastructures are more robust with respect to future uncertainties, compared to traditional network design.

When Culturally Significant Songs are Decontextualised: The Initiation Song Somagwaza, A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Dowling ◽  
Somikazi Deyi ◽  
Anele Gobodwana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Ritual Music ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Small Focus ◽  
Over Time

While there have been a number of studies on the decontextualisation and secularisation of traditional ritual music in America, Taiwan and other parts of the globe, very little has been written on the processes and transformations that South Africa’s indigenous ceremonial songs go through over time. This study was prompted by the authors’ interest in, and engagement with the Xhosa initiation song Somagwaza, which has been re-imagined as a popular song, but has also purportedly found its way into other religious spaces. In this article, we attempted to investigate the extent to which the song Somagwaza is still associated with the Xhosa initiation ritual and to analyse evidence of it being decontextualised and secularised in contemporary South Africa. Our methodology included an examination of the various academic treatments of the song, an analysis of the lyrics of a popular song, bearing the same name, holding small focus group discussions, and distributing questionnaires to speakers of isiXhosa on the topic of the song. The data gathered were analysed using the constant comparative method of analysing qualitative research.

Impacts of Sample Preparation Methodology on TEM Failure Analysis of Advanced Semiconductor Devices

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongkai Zhou ◽  
Jie Zhu ◽  
Han Wei Teo ◽  
ACT Quah ◽  
Lei Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Thickness Measurement ◽  
Interface Roughness ◽  
Silicide Formation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Inspection Method ◽  
Low Mass

Abstract In this paper, two failure analysis case studies are presented to demonstrate the importance of sample preparation procedures to successful failure analyses. Case study 1 establishes that Palladium (Pd) cannot be used as pre-FIB coating for SiO2 thickness measurement due to the spontaneously Pd silicide formation at the SiO2/Si interface. Platinum (Pt) is thus recommended, in spite of the Pt/SiO2 interface roughness, as the pre-FIB coating in this application. In the second case study, the dual-directional TEM inspection method is applied to characterize the profile of the “invisible” tungsten residue defect. The tungsten residue appears invisible in the planeview specimen due to the low mass-thickness contrast. It is then revealed in the cross-sectional TEM inspection.

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