Today’s knowledge workers regularly face ill-structured, non-routine wicked problems such as strategy development, product innovation or policy design. Morphological analysis (MA) is a versatile problem structuring method that helps teams to build a shared understanding of an issue, generate solution ideas and support decision-making. However, existing MA software has two major drawbacks given ...

So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors, has shown that cultural adaptation increased efficiency, but was extremely time-consuming and, thus, prohibitively expensive. In order to bridge the gap between cost-savings on one hand, and international usability on the other, this paper promotes...

Two high order imperfect interface models of elastic spherical interphase are developed using the Bövik-Benveniste methodology. In one model, effect layer is accounted for via jumps in field variables across traces its boundaries, while other—via corresponding trace mid-surface. The derived higher jump conditions incorporated into unit cell model particle composite and accurate semi-analytical ...

Abstract This paper aims to develop the nonlinear incremental modeling approach for describing both monotonic and cyclic behaviors of soil‐structure interface. An exponential function is adopted as an example reproduce asymptotic relationship between interface shear stress ratio displacement. A stress‐dilatancy relation developed shear‐induced change thickness. reversal technique incorporated l...

It has long been recognized that in order to build a good system in which a person and a machine cooperate to perform a task it is important to take into account some significant characteristics of people. These characteristics are used to build some kind of a "user model". Traditionally, the model that is built is a model of a canonical (or typical) user. But often individual users vary so muc...