Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Paul 's Cathedral, Lond on, wrote a famous essay that I invoke now. In A Modest Proposal , Swift ( 1729) satirically suggested that, for more Irish to live longer during a curren t famine, adults should eat their newborn s, thus feedin g the more able while prevent ing a popul ation grow th that would exacerbate the famine. I, too, wish to make a modest proposal, to ...

The following study aims to present an innovative approach for Design. Participatory Design is the model of direct involvement of different social groups in the design from functional tools to environments, social institutions and businesses. Diverse collection of practices has been developed to support this direct involvement by Participatory Design. People are invited to participate during di...

This paper seeks to investigate a new definition for architecture by unifying the three Vitruvian principles of firmitas, utilities, and venustas via a phenomenological approach in the interpretation and analysis of their role in defining architecture. The paper is composed in two main sections. The first section investigates the nature of architecture based on the mentioned principles, where a...

Experiments along the bazaar-route: the importance of user-producer dialogue in shaping new media technology Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? Technological mediation involves representation and inscription in the world. 1 One may therefore claim that engineers become sociologists through their...

Topic modeling of fashion trends were analyzed using the MALLET toolkit. Harper’s Bazaar magazines from 1860-1899 were used (freely available online). This resulted in 20 topics with 4 characterizing words each. Trends over time were analyzed in several different ways using 100-topics and 20-topics.

XOM is an open source API for processing XML with Java using a streaming tree model. XOM was implemented using the cathedral model of open source development rather than a bazaar. As such, a set of explicit design principles for both XML APIs specifically and Java APIs in general has informed its development. This paper discusses these principles. XOM Design Principles Table of

The Internet of Things will comprise many millions of systems, some being big data. The aggregated information from these systems represent, really big data systems. The problems arising from so many devices, data and processing coming together are likened to an international bazaar, with similar challenges. These big data problems in the IoT are reviewed from a reliability engineering perspect...