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Conventional sustainable urban development practices are predominantly focused on intervention measures aimed at larger urban stakeholders, providing limited room for citizen engagement. In the emerging context of smart cities, Internet and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming technology-enablers of citizen participation towards sustainable urban development targets. This article highlights...
Constraint Programming (CP) allows to solve constraint satisfaction and optimization problems by building and then exploring a search tree of potential solutions. Potential solutions are generated by firstly selecting a variable and then a value from the given problem, phase known as enumeration. In this context, Autonomous Search (AS) that is a particular case of adaptive systems, enables the problem...
Refactoring has been defined as improving code quality without affecting its functionality. When refactoring is overlooked in daily development, the likelihood of larger refactorings increases with time. Disadvantages of larger refactorings include that they disrupt the daily work, require additional planning effort, and often they need to be justified to stakeholders. In this paper, we investigate...
Undergraduate ethics instruction in engineering can be broadly divided into two models — disciplinary ethics (integrated within a course) and standalone semester-long ethics course. While both these models have educational value, they insufficiently prepare students in dealing with everyday routine ethical decision making that they might encounter in the workplace. This is because both these models...
Current technical debt management approaches mainly address specific types of technical debt. This paper introduces a framework to aid in decision making for technical debt management, and it includes those elements considered in technical debt management in the available literature, which are classified in three groups and mapped into three stakeholders' points of view. The research method was systematic...
As the availability of open-source information online increases, there are growing concerns regarding its reliability. This has led to renewed emphasis in quality-and trust-metrics research within the social computing space, to assist individuals in determining how reliable pieces of information actually might be. In this article, we take a step back to rigorously investigate the utility of trustworthiness...
Consensus reaching process can be seen as a collaborative process in which a panel of decision makers or experts reach an agreement on developing and supporting an alternative representing their best interests. In this process some decision maker(s) may be asked to modify his/her preference(s) or opinion(s) until the final agreement within the whole can be achieved. In this paper, we propose a consensus...
Innovation has gained prominence and importance within organizations as a means of ensuring competitiveness. Innovation management is usually considered in order to improve the efficiency of internal administrative processes in organizations. However, it may not be considered as a single and well-structured decision making problem, since it involves the need to aggregate different experts' points...
This study investigates some new approaches that concern the handling of human considerations in the decision-aiding field. We particularly look for the industrial context change and the awareness of the Decision-Maker with regards to such a change, in his decisions. Beyond the Routine regular situation, three situations are thus considered, namely the Control, the Emergency Crisis and the Loss of...
Lesson Learning is a process aiming to create knowledge through selection, analysis and reuse of past success and failures (experiences). This paper presents an approach to integrate a Lesson Learning System and a Risk Management Process in order to improve Project Management performance.
Situation identification is a complex task that is usually employed in order to sustain the work of Decision Support Systems in several and heterogeneous application scenarios like, for instance, Emergency Management, Safety and Security. Typically, situation awareness systems gather and process raw sensor data by means of different techniques. In this context, it is fundamental to exploit qualitative...
The necessity to simultaneously satisfy different stakeholders' objectives in an industrial project or in a process requires efficient performance management for decision-making. With the characteristics of multi-dimensions and dynamic nature of performance and the proliferation of evaluation criteria, the design and construction of performance measurement and management systems are facing new challenges...
Multi Criteria Decision Making methods have been developed to solve complex real-world decision problems. The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is currently one of the most popular methods and has been shown to provide helpful outputs in various application areas. In recent years, a variety of extensions, including fuzzy extensions of TOPSIS have been proposed...
Software architecture decision-making is critical to the success of a software system as software architecture sets the structure of the system, determines its qualities, and has far-reaching consequences throughout the system life cycle. The complex nature of the software development context and the importance of the problem has led the research community to develop several techniques, tools, and...
Social capital has been defined as an attribute of individuals that facilitates cooperation to achieve mutual benefit, and enhances a group's capability to solve collective action problems. In this paper, we formalise a new computational framework for optimising self-organised collective action using electronic social capital. This framework comprises event handlers which update multivariate forms...
Architects create models to enable their stakeholders to proactively make rational decisions. The information stored in lifecycle management repositories is not only the contained collections of concepts but also the synthetic network of relationships between those concepts. Because Knowledge is justified true belief and stakeholders should not trust unjustified claims, architects have a responsibility...
This paper presents a prototype for a risk project management game template (PrimaGate). The template was developed in order to offer instructors and learners a flexible tool to build or adapt project risk management games that could be included as part of the curriculum to teach project management. The core focus of the design was to create a learning environment that facilitates the involvement...
In the domain of criminal intelligence analysis, each day an analyst has to make sense and to create insight of a large amount of different data. However, due to the nature of human cognition, these cognitive processes may lead to systematic errors, so-called cognitive biases. In this paper, based on relevant state-of-the-art, preliminary ideas how to support the mitigation of cognitive biases - included...
Overlap functions are aggregation operators used in the overlap problem or when the associativity is not required. Residual implications derived from them (RO-implications) preserve the residuation property, and any overlap function O and the respective RO-implication form an adjoint pair, which is important in many applications. RO-implications are weaker than R-implications constructed from positive...
Information aggregation is a key task in any group decision making problem. In the fuzzy linguistic context, when comparing two alternatives, it is usually assumed that assessments belong to linguistic term sets of symmetrically distributed labels with respect to a central label that stands for the indifference state. However, in practice there are many situations whose nature recommends their modelling...
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