Humanity faces a dual threat to its existence: climate change and biodiversity loss. The two risks are linked through human activity an economic system that promotes growth at the expense of nature. Creating nature-based economy can mitigate bring sustained, shared prosperity. article shows how markets be developed around protection regeneration Policies actions needed unleash resources innovat...

The satisfying of human needs through designing technical objects requires the compromisation and settling of various conflicting criteria at different stages of the engineering design process. The need for back and forth adjustment of design specifications, concept finding, and design embodiment can be considered to be carried out in a telescopic review fashion. The present study is concerned ...

This paper presents ACKTUS, a modeling tool for developing knowledge-based systems for the health domain, and an evaluation study of the system. The main purpose of the evaluation was to investigate whether the functionality and interaction design of ACKTUS was sufficiently intuitive for the domain experts to contribute with knowledge and to model the interaction design of the three end users’ ...

Conceptual Design is a preliminary stage of system design. It involves feasibility study, system specification, decision making and primary design. As system design projects become large, a muitidisciplinary approach is necessary to accomplish the task. An important activity of the cooperative conceptual design is concept negotiation. In this recursive process, design members evaluate and integ...

This paper seeks to uncover dominant configurations of inter-organizational relationships across the USA and Japan in the automotive industry. We integrate relevant theoretical concepts from transaction cost economics, organization theory and political economy to develop a conceptual model of inter-organizational relationships based on the fit between information processing needs and informatio...

We present a novel synthesis algorithm for procedurally generating complex curves. Our approach takes a simple example input curve specified by a user and automatically generates complex curves that resemble the input. The algorithm preserves many of the input shape features such as tangent directions, curvature, branch nodes, and closed loops. The overall approach is simple and can be used to ...

*Correspondence: Antonio F. Miguel, Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Évora, Rua Romao Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] The occurrence of configuration (design, shape, structure, rhythm) is a universal phenomenon that occurs in every flow system. Dendritic configuration (or tree-shaped configurations) is ubiquitous in nature and li...

construction industry consists of several phases in which a variety of stakeholders are involved. as construction projects are becoming larger, more complex and more diverse, the design phase has been more important factor for the success of projects than ever before. however, it is considered that most of design work occurred in actual design process is intangible. such recognition makes the d...