Landscapes as dynamic relations between people and worlds are always incomplete. They partial understandings, evolving knowledges, edited images unfinished stories of our designed undesigned environments. Gaps within landscapes can reveal histories omitted individuals silenced, but this open-endedness also provide opportunities to contribute participate. In paper I explore how under constructio...

The paradigm of Open-Innovation allows software companies new forms of interactive innovation and its diffusion across socio-cultural boundaries. This process constitutes and is constituted by a heterogeneous network of interacting actors. In this interaction, seeds for innovation will be created and have to be adopted by the participants of the respective network. This paper studies the concep...

Educational systems that model the user enable personalisation. Systems that open the model to the user to prompt reflection are increasingly common. These often offer a single view of the model. We introduce multiple-view open learner models, and show the varied preferences for model presentation.

This paper offers new theoretical and empirical insights into the emotional and spiritual geographies of religion in therapeutic landscapes designated for marginal and vulnerable populations. Drawing on original empirical work conducted in a Pentecostal Christian therapeutic community in the UK working in the area of addiction and rehabilitation, this paper investigates the spiritual landscapes...

A philosophical meditation on the open source movement as a mechanism for the design and distribution of software is presented. As a development paradigm, the open source method is depicted as being a radical novelty in the gamut of engineering phenomena and an exemplary metaphor for postmodernist design.

The public’s demand for more and better forest landscapes is increasing as scenic forest tours flourish in China, especially in the capital, Beijing. How to improve the quality of scenic forests has become one of the greatest concerns of urban foresters. Although numerous studies have focused on scenic forest management, to date, no reports have been found on developing a quality assessment ind...

Understanding how landscapes respond to climate dynamics in terms of macroscale (average topographic features) and microscale (landform reorganization) is of interest both for deciphering past climates from today’s landscapes and for predicting future landscapes in view of recent climatic trends. Although several studies have addressed macro-scale response, only a few have focused on quantifyin...

Local minima of a fitness landscape are separated by barriers. A barrier tree (Flamm et al., 2002) is a representation of a fitness landscape as a binary tree, where each leaf represents a local minimum; the barriers connecting the local minima are represented as the internal horizontal nodes of the barrier tree. To reflect the fitness values of barriers and minima, each node in the barrier tre...

We show that genetic recombination can be a powerful mechanism for escaping suboptimal peaks. Recent studies of empirical fitness landscapes reveal complex gene interactions and multiple peaks. However, classical work on recombination largely ignores the effect of complex gene interactions. Briefly, we restrict to fitness landscapes where the global peak is difficult to access. If the optimal g...