Large-scale dams are controversial public infrastructure projects due to the unevenly distributed benefits and losses to local regions. The central government can make redistributive fiscal transfers to attenuate the impacts and reduce the inequality among local governments, but whether large-scale dam projects are Pareto improving is still a question. Using the geographic variation of dam impa...

There is an increasing emphasis on the restoration of ecosystem services as well as of biodiversity, especially where restoration projects are planned at a landscape scale. This increase in the diversity of restoration aims has a number of conceptual and practical implications for the way that restoration projects are monitored and evaluated. Landscape-scale projects require monitoring of not o...

[Context and motivation] User participation in software development is considered to be essential for successful software systems. Especially missing direct communication between users and developers can cause various issues in large-scale IT projects.[Question/Problem] We want to understand current practices of user–developer communication in large-scale IT projects, the factors for, and conse...

Improved separation of concern is important for dealing with increasing complexity of today’s software systems. A number of language designs have been proposed in the last decade with the common goal to improve the separation of concerns by providing better modularization mechanisms e.g. mix-ins, units, roles, layers, hyperspaces, events, aspects, etc. To understand the benefits of a new modula...

Climate-Based Daylight Modelling (CBDM) is a methodology that allows the prediction of several measures of daylight using the sky condition from location specific meteorological data. CBDM was originally used as a means for predicting indoor daylight availability and intensity. Since the scalability of the method has been proved it has been applied at different architectural scales for differen...