Museums need to find innovative ways of communicating if these institutions want to survive in the new era and want to play their active role of educators. In this paper, we will present our idea of living artworks. Using conversational agents we want to give artworks the capability of talking to visitors. A living artwork attracts attention, being a funny and novel combination of art and techn...

Translating clinical guidelines into formal models is beneficial in many ways, but expensive. The progress in medical knowledge requires clinical guidelines to be updated at relatively short intervals, leading to the term living guideline. This causes potentially expensive, frequent updates of the corresponding formal models. When performing these updates, there are two goals: The modelling eff...

The development of medical clusters is high on the agenda of many policymakers in the European Union. Constructing medical clusters may draw on the presence of living labs of different kinds in the regions involved. Living labs are practical environments for innovation aiming at a better mix and match between stakeholders for co-development and reduction of time-to-market through an early invol...

The Semant ic Binary Relat ionship Model (SBRM) is a f i r s t -o rde r formal ism which combines an o rgan lsa t iona l l y s imple basis ( I . e . b inary re la t ionsh ips) with the capabi l i t ies of semant ic networks and logical Integri ty and deduct ion ru les. The aim Is to permit the ef f ic ient model l ing of pract ica l en terpr ises In a DBMS context , whi lst accommodating the re...

The analogy between the physical world and that of knowledge enables us to speak of the “knowledge environment” and discuss various environmental problems of great significance. However, analogies can be misleading if they are not based on systemic relationships. In this paper we take the three worlds, physical, mental, and world 3, as defined by Popper, and analyze them in a common systemic fr...

The potential of new technologies which emulate or exploit the unique properties of living systems is widely lauded. Such technologies however, create new engineering challenges which must be addressed before they can become broadly utilised (see for example, Braha et al. (2006); Bedau et al. (2010); Penn (2008)). Additionally, many pressing challenges for society today are inherently concerned...

The state’s astounding variety of biotic communities with their diverse collections of plants and animals is examined in this chapter. The living laboratory we call California is so enormous and biologically diverse that the study of it poses some problems: Where do we start? How do we organize our study? How do we classify the various living environments? Of course, these same problems confron...

Living Labs have been established as real-life pilot settings in which IT innovations are developed and validated. Once these steps have been completed, these innovations are ready to be moved out of the Living Lab environment into the real world. In many cases Living Lab innovations require not only technological but also socio-political and institutional changes to be made in order for them t...