Rising complexities and uncertainties have emphasized the need to employ scenario thinking in urban design planning. While different methods been widely used across disciplines, a comprehensive review of approaches planning literature is limited. Thus, we provide an overview scenarios existing currently practice. We also building process guide for developing context The highlights steps that co...

Introduction:  Parking areas that are gathering places for tank trucks are potentially dangerous places. This study analyzes accident consequences of oil products carriers, to check and compare the hazard radius with recommended separation distances. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was carried out in 5 stages, including: scenario selection, determination of the accidents source para...

Urban goods movement modelling is a popular subject in urban logistics research. However, most models remain under-used because practitioners have difficulties to apply them to simulate urban policies and their impacts on transport flows, mainly when the assessed situations are different from the initial usage of the mode. This paper aims to answer to that issue by proposing a methodology of sc...

We first advocate that the AUML (Agent Unified Modelling Language) notation, even in its new version, is not precise enough to adequately describe protocols. This problem was long identified by Harel and we propose to follow his solution: extend sequence diagrams with a “prechart”, i.e. single out the initiation sequence of the protocol. This new notation keeps readability and intuition, but is...

To facilitate the evolution of and to better understand human centered technology development in context of business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts, the study of HCI in the MIS discipline is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we attempt to conflate analytical and design methodologies from the Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction literature. HCI lit...

One of the most crucial and complicated phases of realtime system development lies in the transition from system behavior (generally specified using scenario models) to the behavior of interacting components (typically captured by means of communicating hierarchical finite state machines). It is commonly accepted that a systematic approach is required for this transition. In this paper, we over...

While the marketing literature has advocated for decades that new products should be designed for intended and anticipated consumer usages, the engineering literature mostly proposes optimization of product performances independent of specific users’ skills, anticipated usage scenarios, and competing products on the market. In contrast to tedious market studies which assume an existing market e...