Design and development of routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is an active area of research. The standard practice among researchers working in this emerging domain is to evaluate the performance of their routing protocols in a network simulator. It is now a well known fact that the simulation studies are scenario specific and hence their results can not be generalized. In thi...

David Snowden’s Cynefin framework, introduced to articulate discussions of sense-making, knowledge management and organisational learning, also has much to offer discussion of statistical inference and decision analysis. I explore its value, particularly in its ability to help recognise which analytic and modelling methodologies are most likely to offer appropriate support in a given context. T...

major grid company faced multiple challenges in their grid planning, adapting to the penetration of solar photovoltaics, new sets of regulation, demand side management, and other developments that changed the utility’s context. The grid company wanted to move beyond their current scenario planning and make their grid planning more robust for a wide range of future scenario’s. UMS Group was enga...

The Mobile Informatics program at the Viktoria Institute has to some extent used scenario planning as a method for discussing issues related to Informatics research during one year. One important lesson is that the scenario exercises have given the participants interesting ideas and perspectives as a side effect, while some other expected advantages seem much harder to achieve.

In this paper, we give a double twist to the problem of planning under uncertainty. State-of-the-art planners seek to minimize the localization uncertainty by only considering the geometric structure of the scene. In this paper, we argue that motion planning for vision-controlled robots should be perception aware in that the robot should also favor texture-rich areas to minimize the localizatio...

To coop with urbanization issues and the economic need for expansion, the city of Jakarta is planning to reclaim more land in the Jakarta Bay. However, the reclamation activities of some islands have barely started and already the developers are facing difficulties in finding sufficient quantities of sand as fill material. When addressing the problem of sand scarcity in the case of Jakarta wher...

Identifying the emerging requirements for technology management will help organisations to prepare for the future and remain competitive. Indeed technology management as a discipline needs to develop and respond to societal and industrial needs as well as the corresponding technology challenges. Therefore, following a review of technology forecasting methodologies, a sector-based scenario plann...

This paper is concerned with games against nature and multi-criteria decision making under uncertainty along with scenario planning. We focus on decision problems where a deterministic evaluation of criteria is not possible. The procedure we propose is based on weighted goal programming and may be applied when seeking a mixed strategy. A mixed strategy allows the decision maker to select and pe...

This paper uses a narrative literary study to discuss how the science fiction prototyping method has been applied so far in different disciplines, including technology and engineering research (specifically Intelligent Environment research), foresight, futuresand business studies. Then the paper presents very similar practices in human-computer interaction, entitled as e.g. critical design, spe...

Purpose The resourcing of policing activity is characterised by a level of complexity, particularly where evaluating alternative policy options is concerned. In this paper, a case study using multimethodological modelling to compare alterative policy choice in a group context is outlined with respect to response-patrol officer deployment within a UK police force. Design/methodology/approach The...