Peer production projects such as Wikipedia or open-source software development allow volunteers to collectively create knowledgebased products. The inclusive nature of such projects poses difficult challenges for ensuring trustworthiness and combating vandalism. Prior studies in the area deal with descriptive aspects of peer production, failing to capture the idea that while contributors collab...

Restoration is a significant component of NOAA’s work and continues to increase. NOAA has played a central role in thousands of restoration projects. Those projects appear to be increasing in number and scale, both in dollars and acres. NOAA increasingly serves as an advisor on the best use of significant levels of restoration funds. NOAA is one of a very small handful of truly global leaders i...

It is now widely accepted that software projects utilizing the Web (e-projects) face many of the same problems and risks experienced with more traditional software projects, only to a greater degree. Further, their characteristics of rapid development cycles combined with high frequency of software releases and adaptations make many of the traditional tools and techniques for modeling defects u...

This is a studio report of researches and projects in SUAC (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture). SUAC was founded in April 2000, and organized NIME04 as you know. SUAC has "Faculty of Design" and "Department of Art and Science" and all students study interactive systems and media arts. SUAC has organized Media Art Festival (MAF) from 2001 to 2005. Domestic/overseas artists participated in S...

Variability in construction projects usually leads to schedule delays, cost overruns and productivity losses. Among the different techniques and tools employed to manage a construction project the use of buffers is a common approach to handle variability and to protect production processes from its negative impact. Time float, resource inventories and budget contingencies are examples of buffer...

Projects--planned activities with specific goals and outcomes--have been used in faculty development programs to enhance participant learning and development. Projects have been employed most extensively in programs designed to develop faculty as educators. The authors review the literature and report the results of their 2008 study of the impact of projects within the Pennsylvania State Univer...