We present a field study aimed at analysing the use of viewpoints in codesign meetings. A viewpoint is a representation characterised by a certain combination of constraints. Three types of viewpoints are distinguished: prescribed viewpoint, discipline-specific viewpoint and integrated viewpoint. The contribution of our work consists in characterising the viewpoints of various stakeholders invo...

Viewpoints are coherent collections of facts that describe a concept from a particular perspective. They are essential for a wide variety of tasks, such as explanation generation and qualitative model-ing. We have identiied many types of viewpoints and developed a program, the View Retriever, for extracting them from knowledge bases, either singly or in combinations. The View Retriever provides...

This study focuses on how products are viewed by their users. In order to capture users’ viewpoints, we focused on how the virtual 3D model of a product was examined (rotated/translated/moved by the user). We attempt to understand these viewing mechanisms by focusing on the dynamics of shifting viewpoints and verbal features during the generation of product impressions. The notion of dynamics o...

this essay proposes results of three investigations on satisfaction of industry & mine bank's customers. this research rendered yearly and pursues following purposes: attainment to resolution for increasing customers' satisfaction, knowing of customers' attitudes on bank employees, customers' judgment on regularities of bank, measuring customers' satisfaction, knowing o...

Abstract Demographic trends play an important role in the development of workforce diversity. Population expansion and immigration are two examples demographic changes that have created more diverse environments made it crucial for organizations to be able adapt manage change. Organizations constantly need reassess their methods come up with new, original ideas managing people as a result globa...

Viewpoints-based approaches have been proposed as a way of managing inconsistent and incomplete information gathered from multiple sources [8]. These approaches separate the descriptions provided by different stakeholders, and concentrate on identifying and resolving conflicts between them. A key advantage to the use of viewpoints is that inconsistencies between viewpoints can be tolerated [7].

Exposure to conflicting political viewpoints is widely assumed to benefit the citizens of a democratic polity. Nonetheless, the benefits of exposure to heterogeneous political viewpoints have yet to be demonstrated empirically. Drawing on national survey data that tap characteristics of people's political discussion networks, I examine the impact of heterogeneous networks of political discussio...

We study the problem of visibility in polyhedral terrains in the presence of multiple viewpoints. We consider three fundamental visibility structures: the visibility map, the colored visibility map, and the Voronoi visibility map. We study the complexity of each structure for both 1.5D and 2.5D terrains, and provide efficient algorithms to construct them. Our algorithm for the visibility map in...