A principal owns a firm, hires an agent of uncertain productivity, and designs dynamic policy for evaluating his performance. The observes ongoing evaluations decides when to quit. When not quitting, the is paid wage that linear in expected productivity; claims residual After players secure fixed outside options. I show equilibrium Pareto efficient. For broad class performance technologies, det...

many old damaged and undamaged building structures do not meet the criteria of modern seismic design codes. such structures need to be seismically enhanced. the main objective of this paper is to propose and validate the effectiveness of an upgrade scheme for non-seismic buildings using steel plate shear walls (spsw). the upgrade is carried out considering a probability-based drift-based criter...

Evaluation design is concerned with the detailed planning of the evaluation. It builds on the evaluation context to specifically identify practices, processes, timing and responsibilities for completing an evaluation. The detailed information gathered at this stage can be compiled into an evaluation plan for the particular type of evaluation and contribute to the portfolio of evaluations discus...

Developments in the field of sustainable product design are manifold, which means that education in this field is rapidly evolving as well. In this paper, the continuously evolving portfolio of courses offered at Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design Engineering faculty is systematically discussed, with a focus on content, course formats, assignments and lessons learned from course...

Parametric design is an emerging research issue in the design domain. However, our current understanding of creativity in relation to either a process or product standpoint is limited. This paper presents a formal approach for the description and identification of creativity from both perspectives. The framework combines: (i) protocol analysis for encoding cognitive design activities, providing...

This article reports a new method and tools for exaggerated realtime character animation control method for full-body gesture interaction systems. Game Action Motion Interaction Controller (GAMIC) is a motion interaction design tool that can be used by motion interaction designer with KINECT, WiiRemote, it comprises a generic evaluation function with thresholds and does not require any addition...