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A New Mode for Medium and Long-Term Electricity Trade Based on Standardized Futures

open access: yesZhongguo dianli, 2021
The electricity futures are a kind of electricity financial contract that can effectively lower the trading risk in the electricity spot market. With the advance of China's electricity market reform, the marketization degree of electricity trade is ...
Junqiang SHI, Zeyu LIU, Donghan FENG
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Design Fiction Diegetic Prototyping: A Research Framework for Visualizing Service Innovations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Purpose: This paper presents a design fiction diegetic prototyping methodology and research framework for ...
Belk, Russell   +2 more
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Designing for Irrelevance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
My job title is ‘designer’ but I’m reluctant to describe myself as a designer for a number of reasons: first, because the practice has a lot to answer for; and second, because I don’t do a whole lot of design.
Scott-Kemmis, Will Owen
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Multinationals and futures hedging: An optimal stopping approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper examines the optimal design of a futures hedge program for a risk-averse multinational firm (MNF) under exchange rate uncertainty. All currency futures contracts are marked to market and require interim cash settlement of gains and losses. The
Meng, R, Wong, KP
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Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022
When considering the democratic intentions of co-design, designers and design researchers must evaluate the impact of power imbalances embedded in common design and research dynamics.
Kirsten E. Bray   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A journey to literacy in design futures: Revelations from the global south

open access: yesThe Design Journal
This study explores an experimental pedagogical approach to design futures by analyzing three speculative scenarios and artefacts demonstrating novelty in envisioning the future.
H. Myers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Articulating (Uncertain) AI Futures of Artistic Practice: A Speculative Design and Manifesto Sprint Approach

open access: yesCreativity & Cognition, 2023
AI is rapidly becoming enmeshed in our professional and private lives. The ubiquity of such technologies raises a host of ethical questions, value clashes, and unforeseen consequences that must be confronted.
S. Ashby   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparing gate and annealing-based quantum computing for configuration-based design tasks

open access: yesDesign Science
Complete exploration of design spaces is often computationally prohibitive. Classical search methods offer a solution but are limited by challenges like local optima and an inability to traverse dislocated design spaces.
Oliver Schiffmann   +2 more
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Sustainable Design Futures: An open design vision for the circular economy in fashion and textiles

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores the concept of the circular economy within the context of fashion and textile design in the UK, and does so from the textile and fashion perspectives to explore how this might be achieved.
Pauline V. Smith   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the Roles of Artifacts in Speculative Futures: Perspectives in HCI

open access: yesSystems
In an era where technology increasingly blurs the boundaries between humans and machines, artifacts have become crucial mediums for critically examining the technological, social, and ethical dimensions of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI).
Lin Zhu, Jiayue Wang, Jiawei Li
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