Redesign and Renewal

Automated Redesign with the General Redesign Engine

Given a system design (SD), a key task is to optimize this design to reduce the probability of catastrophic failures. We consider the task of redesigning an SD to minimize the probability of particular faults by introducing components selected from a component library. We have implemented a General Redesign Engine (GRE), which uses model-based reasoning techniques and Boolean functional synthes...

Mechanism Redesign

This paper develops the theory of mechanism redesign by which an auctioneer can reoptimize an auction based on bid data collected from previous iterations of the auction on bidders from the same market. We give a direct method for estimation of the revenue of a counterfactual auction from the bids in the current auction. The estimator is a simple weighted order statistic of the bids and has the...

Residency redesign.

Redesign Overcompensation.

-We have found that hydriodic acid can reduce isoalloxazine derivatives to the semiquinone level. Crystals of a solid material, probably an HI complex of the semiquinone hydriodide, containing approximately 100 per cent unpaired spin content, can be obtained from such solutions. The semiquinone hydriodide is also found to form stable 1:1 complexes with various phenols. These may be isolated in ...

Redesign, Development and Organizational Learning

The organizational paradigm of maximal division of labor is loosing ground. From business process redesign and sociotechnical systems theory, methods have been suggested to redesign organizations. Many redesign projects, however, do not yield the desired outcomes. This paper shows that the progression of fundamental change is related to the management of the change process. Research in forty-ei...