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Improving cross-functional communication about product architecture [PDF]
, 2004 Product architecture decisions, such as product modularity, component commonality, and design reuse, are important for balancing costs, responsiveness, quality, and other important business objectives.
Kerssens-van Drongelen, I.C. +1 more
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FormAkademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk, 2013 The combination of realising buildings with such architectural care that they become high-quality architecture and the momentum of introducing a competitive phase in this creative work may strike most people as odd. However, the phenomenon dates back to the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece, where the harmony between aesthetics and architectural ...
Jonas E Andersson +2 more
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Searching for improvement [PDF]
, 2006 Engineering design can be thought of as a search for the best solutions to engineering problems. To perform an effective search, one must distinguish between competing designs and establish a measure of design quality, or fitness.
Atherton, MA, Bates, RA
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Choice architecture in physician–patient communication: a mixed-methods assessments of physicians’ competency [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2021 BackgroundClinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence.ObjectiveTo assess physicians’ abilities to predict how common choice frames influence people’s choices.MethodsWe ...
Joanna Hart +7 more
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Competing in Architecture. Crowdsourcing as a Research Tool
FormAkademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk, 2013 Architectural competitions are powerful strategies for generating visual ideas for new futures. Academic research generates new knowledge based on rigorous investigations of informed propositions. This paper describes an unusual merging of a research process with a competition process using crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge.
Clare Newton, Sarah Backhouse
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A Decoupled 3D Facial Shape Model by Adversarial Training [PDF]
, 2019 Data-driven generative 3D face models are used to compactly encode facial shape data into meaningful parametric representations. A desirable property of these models is their ability to effectively decouple natural sources of variation, in particular ...
Abrevaya, Victoria Fernandez +3 more
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Optical IP switching a solution to dynamic lightpath establishment in disaggregated network architectures [PDF]
, 2006 The landscape of the telecommunications environment is constantly evolving; in terms of architecture and increasing data-rate. Ensuring that routing decisions are taken at the lowest possible layer offers the possibility of greatest data throughput.
Barry, Liam P. +5 more
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Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 IT architecture is often assumed to follow business strategy, to align IT with the business's strategic objectives. Increasingly, though, many business strategies depend on specific underlying IT capabilities. To develop a synergy between business strategy and IT architecture, firms must develop organizational competencies in IT architecture.
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Beyond Product Architecture: Division of Labor and Competence Accumulation in Complex Product Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Firms that develop complex products have a strong incentive to leverage the suppliers’ specialized knowledge. On the other hand, firms are often confronted with a trade-off between the benefits of leveraging external sources of innovation and the benefits of competence accumulation provided by in-house design and engineering.
Becker M., ZIRPOLI, Francesco
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Robust Image Sentiment Analysis Using Progressively Trained and Domain Transferred Deep Networks [PDF]
, 2015 Sentiment analysis of online user generated content is important for many social media analytics tasks. Researchers have largely relied on textual sentiment analysis to develop systems to predict political elections, measure economic indicators, and so ...
Jin, Hailin +3 more
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