OBJECTIVE Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) has implemented changes to more effectively communicate risk during public health emergencies. In spite of ongoing improvements, provincial and sub-provincial leaders face barriers, such as established modes of operation, lack of training, shortage of trained risk communicators, an...

In many industries, multiple parties collaborate on a larger project. At the same time, each of those stakeholders participates in independent projects simultaneously. A double patchwork can thus be identified, with many-to-many relationship between actors and collaborative projects. One key example is construction industry, where every project unique, involving specialists for subdomains, rang...

[Context and motivation:] For realistic self-adaptive systems, multiple quality attributes need to be considered traded off against each other. These are commonly encoded in a utility function, for instance, weighted sum of relevant objectives. [Question/problem:] The research agenda requirements engineering systems has raised the decision-making techniques that consider trade-offs priorities H...

The shift from analog to digital point-of-sale systems (e.g. Square) and app-based service platforms Uber) disrupted frontline services by creating new tipping processes that occur in an ever-expanding range of contexts involve stakeholders. increasing importance the global economy uncertainty regarding practices suggest need for a comprehensive framework accounts evolving tipped networks. We i...