In the early stages of design, several concepts are usually generated to explore the possibilities. This paper investigates how well a computer-based system can support design thinking. SESAME is a novel 3D design system that aims to support creativity during the explorative phase of the design process. We report an evaluation comparing SESAME to paper sketching for early design exploration in ...

In analog integrated circuits, process variations result in physical parameter variations. Simulated performance values must then be considered with their tolerance intervals. Consequently, contrarily to digital circuits where the outputs are either ’0’ or ’1’ such that we can decide without ambiguity whether a fault is detectable or not, for analog circuits fault detectability is still a vague...

This study examined the effects of locus control, tolerance ambiguity, vision, persistence, and resilience on entrepreneurial competency, performance, sustainability among micro-enterprises in Kelantan, Malaysia. Adopting a cross-sectional design, authors collected data from 403 micro-entrepreneurs. The findings revealed that control vision significantly influenced competencies. In turn, compet...

Recent improvements in information technologies have led to the creation and advancement of numerous interfaces or visual displays. However, not all innovations in visual representations optimize their users’ decisional performance. This research examines whether granting users discretion improves their decisional accuracy and expedites their decision making, as well as reduces their stress and...

In this paper, we explore several statistical methods to find solutions to the problem of query translation ambiguity. Indeed, we propose and compare a new possibilistic approach for query translation derived from a probabilistic one, by applying a classical probability-possibility transformation of probability distributions, which introduces a certain tolerance in the selection of word transla...

A self-organizing neural network is proposed to handle multiple temporal sequences with states in common. The proposed network combines context-based competitive learning with time-delayed Hebbian learning to encode spatial features and temporal order of sequence items, respectively. A responsibility function to avoid catastrophic forgetting, and a redundancy mechanism to avoid loss of stored s...

In analog circuits, process variations result in physical parameter variations. Simulated values must then be considered with there tolerance intervals. Consequently, contrarily to digital circuits where the outputs are either '0' or '1' such that we can decide without ambiguity whether a fault is detectable or not, for analog circuits the fault detectability is a vague problem as the fault can...

We apply a model of preferences about the presence and absence information to domain decision making under risk ambiguity. An uncertain prospect exposes an individual 1 or more gaps, specific unanswered questions that capture attention. Gambling makes these important, attracting attention them. To extent uncertainty (or other circumstances) gaps unpleasant think about, tends be averse Yet in ci...