Systems 2030 – Emergent themes

Analysing Ambulance Dispatcher Decision Making: Trialing Emergent Themes Analysis

Understanding how people make decisions in actual, real-time operational environments can provide software developers with useful insights into how systems should be designed to support them. However, part of the difficulty is developing that understanding. In this paper we describe a case study of how Critical Decision Method interview data was analysed using the Emergent Themes Analysis Appro...

Gestural, Emergent and Expressive: Three Research Themes for Haptic Interaction

Drawing on three case studies of work in the fields of participatory design, interaction design and electronic arts, we reflect on the implications of these studies for haptic interface research. We propose three themes: gestural; emergent; and expressive; as signposts for a program of research into haptic interaction that could point the way towards novel approaches to haptic interaction and m...

Emergent Semantics Systems

With “peer production” becoming commonplace and new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated semantic web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic reconciliation methods, dependent upon shared vocabularies or global ontologies, cannot be used in such open and dynamic environments. Instead, new heuristics based on emergin...

Themes and Variations in Complex Systems

Systems of Systems and Emergent System Context

One of the key issues facing architects of systems of systems (SOS) is the emergent nature of the context of the SOS. In the spirit of Herbert Simon, context here means all the stakeholders, objects, processes and other external effects that create the environment for goal attainment of a system. As SOS are systems, they too have contexts. Understanding the relationship between the contexts of ...