Further Reflections

Further reflections on TREC

The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive ®ndings for IR that follow and the lessons TREC o€ers for IR evaluation. The paper focuses on the ad hoc retrieval task, with discussion of other test tracks as appropriate. The paper summarises the structure of the TREC work and analyses the experimental data in some detail. The analysis of ...

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

Highway spotters and traffic controllers: further reflections on complexity.

Norman’s essay on ‘Chaos, complexity and complicatedness’ in this issue of Medical Education offers an eloquent description of the reductionist position in medical education. The author’s argument is articulate and provides an impressive set of elaborations and clarifications regarding several scientific concepts that I and others have invoked in recent discussions on the epistemologies of medi...

Sustainability and the measurement of wealth: further reflections

The June 2012 issue of Environment and Development Economics published a symposium with considerable focus on our paper, ‘Sustainability and the measurement of wealth’. The Symposium also contained five articles in which other researchers offered valuable comments on our paper. The present note replies to those comments. It clarifies important issues and reveals how important questions relating...

Building Energy Simulation and Object-oriented Modelling: Review and Reflections upon Achieved Results and Further Developments

Over the past 30 years numerous Building Simulation Codes (BSC) have been developed. Nevertheless, none of them has yet become a “standard”. Focusing the attention on the use of advanced Object-Oriented Modelling, a review of the most used BSC is here carried out. First, new requirements have been investigated. Actually, the evolving nature of Building Systems and of society demand for tools de...