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Human interaction in the Swedish biogas sector
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the role of human interaction in defining, shaping, and
continuously re-shaping interpretations towards the biogas phenomenon in Sweden. This
investigation was conducted via two forms of inquiry. First, a theoretical inquiry was
conducted which was grounded in the principles of symbolic interactionism. The purpose of
this inquiry was to create a theoretical framework that can be applied to better understand the
phenomenon of human interaction. Second, an empirical inquiry was conducted based on
participatory research that involved direct interaction with actors working within the Swedish
biogas context. The empirical inquiry provided the opportunity to present concrete, tangible
results regarding the role of human interaction in the biogas sector, and was based on my own
direct participation in the Swedish biogas-context. This theoretical-empirical framework
(created through the two forms of inquiry) was established through a somewhat interdependent
process; that is, the underlying theoretical framework was used as a reference point from which
to conduct the empirical inquiry, while the theory itself was derived with empirical results and
observations in mind. As such, each form of inquiry served to support and complement the
other.
A main component of both inquiries was to investigate the role symbols play during
interaction. Key symbols that were observed during biogas-related interaction were outlined
and discussed. A discussion was also provided regarding the role these symbols played in
facilitating shared meaning and cooperation amongst the actors, as well as their role in
learning, perspective change and knowledge creation. To complement these empirical
observations, a personal account of how direct interaction in the Swedish biogas sector has
shifted my own perspective towards the biogas phenomenon was also provided
The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)
This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the
Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
(WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series
promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and
best practices, careers, learning, and credit. This article discusses the Code
of Conduct, idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and
lightning talks presented during the workshop. The main part of the article
discusses the speed-blogging groups that formed during the meeting, along with
the outputs of those sessions
A Dynamic Knowledge Management Framework for the High Value Manufacturing Industry
Dynamic Knowledge Management (KM) is a combination of cultural and technological factors, including the cultural factors of people and their motivations, technological factors of content and infrastructure and, where these both come together, interface factors. In this paper a Dynamic KM framework is described in the context of employees being motivated to create profit for their company through product development in high value manufacturing. It is reported how the framework was discussed during a meeting of the collaborating company’s (BAE Systems) project stakeholders. Participants agreed the framework would have most benefit at the start of the product lifecycle before key decisions were made. The framework has been designed to support organisational learning and to reward employees that improve the position of the company in the market place
Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study
Chat messages of development teams play an increasingly significant role in
software development, having replaced emails in some cases. Chat messages
contain information about discussed issues, considered alternatives and
argumentation leading to the decisions made during software development. These
elements, defined as rationale, are invaluable during software evolution for
documenting and reusing development knowledge. Rationale is also essential for
coping with changes and for effective maintenance of the software system.
However, exploiting the rationale hidden in the chat messages is challenging
due to the high volume of unstructured messages covering a wide range of
topics. This work presents the results of an exploratory study examining the
frequency of rationale in chat messages, the completeness of the available
rationale and the potential of automatic techniques for rationale extraction.
For this purpose, we apply content analysis and machine learning techniques on
more than 8,700 chat messages from three software development projects. Our
results show that chat messages are a rich source of rationale and that machine
learning is a promising technique for detecting rationale and identifying
different rationale elements.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. The 14th International Conference on Mining
Software Repositories (MSR'17
Sustainable urban development in practice:the SAVE concept
The need for sustainable development of the urban environment presents the research community with a number of challenges and opportunities. A considerable volume of research has been undertaken into the constituent parts of this complex problem and a number of tool kits and methodologies have been developed to enable and encourage the application of specific aspects of research in practice. However, there is limited evidence of the holistic integration of the body of knowledge arising from the research within real-life decision-making practices. In this paper we present an overview of the existing body of knowledge relating to sustainable development of the urban environment and propose a generic framework for its integration within current practices. This framework recognises the need to: understand social, economic, and environmental issues; understand the decision-making processes; provide a means of measurement, assessment, or valuation of the issues; provide analytical methods for the comparative assessment of complex data to enable an evaluation of strategies and design options and to communicate effectively throughout the process with a wide range of stakeholders. The components of a novel sustainability assessment, visualisation and enhancement (SAVE) framework, developed by the authors to ‘operationalise’ the body of knowledge are presented and justified. These include: decision-mapping methods to identify points of intervention; indicator identification and measurement approaches; appropriate mathematical and analytical tools and an interactive simulation and visualisation platform which integrates and communicates complex multivariate information to diverse stakeholder groups. We report on the application of the SAVE framework to a major urban development project and reflect on its current and potential impact on the development. Conclusions are also drawn about its general applicability
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