Unanticipated Benefits: The Moffat Tunnel

The power of the context map: Designing realistic outcome evaluation strategies and other unanticipated benefits.

Developing a feasible evaluation plan is challenging when multiple activities, often sponsored by multiple agencies, work together toward a common goal. Often, resources are limited and not every agency's interest can be represented in the final evaluation plan. The article illustrates how the Antecedent Target Measurement (ATM) approach to logic modeling was adapted to meet this challenge. The...

Rare Immunodeficiency Unanticipated Benefits from the Study of a Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency:

Compressing Integer Sequences and Sets (2000: Moffat and Stuiver)

Suppose that a message M = 〈s1, s2, . . . , sn〉 of length n = |M | symbols is to be represented, where each symbol si is an integer in the range 1 ≤ si ≤ U , for some upper limit U that may or may not be known, and may or may not be finite. Messages in this form are commonly the output of some kind of modeling step in a data compression system. The objective is to represent the message over a b...

Unanticipated Software Evolution

1 Dept. of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany, [email protected] http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/∼gk/ 2 Software Engineering Lab, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, [email protected] http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/∼noppen/ 3 Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, [email protected] http://prog.vub.ac.be/∼tommens/ 4 University of Limerick, Castle...

Design for Unanticipated Use

Support for work practice is better conceptualised as support for activity taking place in a multidimensional space than as prescription of temporal task sequences. The notion of "common artefact" is introduced to illustrate, unify, and summarise recent research that identifies significant dimensions of cooperative work. Common artefacts may be mundane, everyday objects like hotel keyracks or s...