This document proposes an Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM) platform to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between experts and citizens. The IKM would map both scientific and societal expertise on priority topics and development options. It would be accessible online and allow users to navigate relevant information, experts, and possibilities. The document outlines several potential applications of the IKM, including enacting Brain Networking between Romanian experts in the diaspora, creating business networking hubs, and stimulating local development. Implementation would involve building and testing the platform through iterative cycles.
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I gave a talk at ImagineXLab, Seoul, Korea.
In this presentation, I would like to share my recent works that have been explored sociotechnical issues through social media data.
1) /r/Assholedesign: Online conversation about ethical concerns (ACM DIS 20' Honorable Mention Award)
2) /r/Digitalnomad: Current tensions in community-based spaces (ACM CHI 2019 LBW, CSCW 2019)
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Designing the city as interface & the interface to the cityMartin Tomitsch
Ā
Due to population growth in cities around the world, their infrastructure and services are challenged to keep up with the growing demand. At the same time the availability of new technologies and their appropriation by citizens leads to certain expectations and new challenges regarding the interaction design of interfaces and their use in the city. By designing for new experiences using the city as interface, and by better understanding how to design interfaces to the city that follow new interaction models, some of the issues in contemporary cities can potentially be addressed, alleviating pressure on ageing infrastructures and services.
These are the slides for a talk I gave at the IxDA Sydney chapter meetup on 23 January 2014. The key take away are a set of design parameters for urban interaction design: scale, interaction models, users, and research & prototyping. There is not much text on the slides, but most of the slides include references to further information about the examples that are included in this slide deck.
Understanding everyday usersā perception of socio-technical issues through s...Ahreum lee
Ā
I gave a talk at ImagineXLab, Seoul, Korea.
In this presentation, I would like to share my recent works that have been explored sociotechnical issues through social media data.
1) /r/Assholedesign: Online conversation about ethical concerns (ACM DIS 20' Honorable Mention Award)
2) /r/Digitalnomad: Current tensions in community-based spaces (ACM CHI 2019 LBW, CSCW 2019)
3) /r/Purdue: Everyday usersā perception of delivery robots on campus (ACM CSCW 2020 LBW)
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Ā
Slides describing digital vocabulary and the key words and concepts for an in-depth understanding of platform analysis and key challenges businesses face when adopting social media strategy. Slides are created and used in the class MKT597 Digital and Social Media Marketing.
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Ā
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Ā
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Ā
Information technology has been around for a long, long time. Basically as long as people have been around, information technology has been around because there were always ways of communicating through technology available at that point in time. There are 4 main ages that divide up the history of information technology. Only the latest age (electronic) and some of the electromechanical age really affects us today, but it is important to learn about how we got to the point we are at with technology today.
Keynote Presentation: Architecting a customized mobile communications strategy ā lessons learned from the worldās #1-ranked engineering design firm
During this presentation, Paul J. Gennaro, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of AECOM Technology Corp., will discuss how the worldās largest engineering design firm is leveraging mobile technology to share its messaging with internal and external audiences globally. AECOM is an $8-billion provider of professional services that employs 45,000 architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists and management professionals who serve clients in more than 140 countries. AECOMās client base comprises approximately 50% business-to-business clients and 50% business-to-government clients ā requiring a unique and tailored strategy for mobile communications. During his presentation, Gennaro, PRWeek magazineās 2013 PR Professional of the Year, will share background on AECOMās e-magazine, which was recognized as the 2012 Digital Newsletter of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America; an internal app that AECOM developed for P&L managers; and its ongoing development of a mobile Web site.
Presented by: Paul Gennaro, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, AECOM Technology Corp.
www.bdionline.com
APrIGF 2020: Internet innovation and developmentAPNIC
Ā
APNIC Foundation's Head of Programs Sylvia Cadena presented on Internet innovation and development at the APrIGF 2020, held online from 27 to 30 September 2020.
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Ā
This 90 minute presentation and discussion was given by Steve Brewer and David Rees at the Bournemouth University Media School research day on 30 April, 2014. The full title for the talk was: Strategies for Growth for Creative Digital Clusters: The Road to Bournemouth Pier.
The content was based on the recent report Bournemouth Digital Pier - http://www.itutility.ac.uk/pilot-projects/creative-digital-it-cdit-feasibility-study/
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Ā
Cloud computing is gaining prominence and popularity in three important forms: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. In this paper, we will present
an empirical study of how these cloud-based services were used in an undergraduate Computer Science capstone class to enable agile and effective development, testing, and deployment of sophisticated software systems, facilitate team collaborations among students, and ease the project assessment and grading tasks for teachers. Especially, in this class, students and teachers could leverage time, talent, and resources collaboratively and distributedly on his/her own schedule, from his/her convenient location, and using heterogeneous programming platforms thanks to such a completely All-In-Cloud environment, which eliminated the necessity of spending valuable development time on local setup, configuration, and maintenance, streamlined version control and group management, and greatly increased the collective productivity of student groups. Despite of the relatively steep learning curve in the beginning of the semester, all nine groups of students benefitted tremendously from such an All-In-Cloud experience and eight of them completed their substantial software projects successfully. This paper is concluded with a vision on expandin and standardizing the adoption of the Cloud ecosystem in other Computer Science classes in the future.
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Ā
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APPLIED SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND TESTING
JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
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Ā
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Ā
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. Whatās changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part āEssentials of Automationā series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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Speakers:
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Ā
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Ikm bn user-outreach_3_20180404
1. Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM)
[new internet tool interfacing experts & citizens on topics
& options that are updated through both science & uses]
Idea already researched and tested. Platform to develop.
(details: in future slides) ā
Applied to enact Brain Networking (BN)
[Romanian Experts in Diaspora want co-work via Internet]
Idea already researched & tested (details: in future slides)
ā
To create a web & local Business Nodes
[IKM-BN user points where all-fields experts & business
actors orient & choose; find/make good action options]
ā
To stimulate local talent; development
[in each Romanian (later CE, EU) town/village, economic
activities to start-grow via good professional networks]
CHRONIC PROBLEM:
a slow economic growth
in Central Europe & EU is
brewing a systemic crisis
ā¦ no, they didnāt.
(an Athenian passing by)
PROPOSED SOLUTION:
A web-based Science-Technology-Business action platform
with an international network of experts & business actors
Contact: ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com;
ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
ļ photos: Suceava Seat Citadel, Romania (top), and
The Stone, Michigan State University, USA (bottom)
START CONCEPT - details
From here on: platform building-testing iteration cycles
2. Both scientific and societal knowledge (expertise) can be mapped; operated through a minimal common denominator,
i.e., map of topics of priority interests, completed with practical details; freely accessible online [Software as a Service]
Users navigate IKM for orientation; seeing combinations of relevant infos, experts & possibilities
A web-based Science-Technology-Business action platform
with an international network of experts & business actors
1 (of 4) ā Interactive Knowledge Maps
START CONCEPT - details
From here on: platform building-testing iteration cycles
Contact:
Ioan M. Ciumasu
ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com;
ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
3. In society: Despre brain networking. Interviu cu Dr.
Ioan M. CiumaČu. Institutul ProDiaspora Romana
(15 May 2014; text in Romanian language).
http://prodiasporaromana.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/05/Interviu-cu-I.-Ciumasu-2014.05.25.pdf
In research (to date - 30.09.2017, cited 41 times):
Ciumasu, IM, 2010. Turning brain drain into brain
networking. Science & Public Policy 37(2):135-146
https://academic.oup.com/spp/article-abstract/37/2/135/1619256
Brain Drain at the origin of global expert networks
Romanian Science-Tech Diaspora wants to help out projects in Romania
as experts, via Internet ļ would-be expert networks liaised by culture
A web-based Science-Technology-Business action platform
with an international network of experts & business actors
2 (of 4) ā IKM applied: to enact Brain Networking (BN)
START CONCEPT - details
From here on: platform building-testing iteration cycles
Contact: ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com;
ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
4. IKM-BN user hubs where experts, entrepreneurs and all business actors get orientation, options, partners and access to
technologies and services available on the market ā i.e., presented as practical info active in IKM during user navigation
This strategy is modified from Ciumasu 2010 (references in the previous slide): 1. Extended from āscience-scienceā to āscience-societyā; 2. Built into IKM
SOCIAL UNIT SOCIAL FUNCTION Suggested mechanisms (for start)
Country / region CONTEXT / RULES ā¢ Public authorities promoting civic/private initiative & learning-by-doing
ā¢ Cultural associations and institutions to promote openness, dialogue
ā¢ Professional associations to promote high quality, profession values
COMMUNITY
(any town or village)
LOCAL STRATEGY
(if it exists; priorities & plans)
ā¢ Public consultations organized to discern local collective priorities
ā¢ Public/private projects for human, technic & economic development
BRAIN
NETWORKING
POINT
BRAIN
NETWORKING
ACTIVITY
ā¢ IKM-BN user points: any internet connection - individual (houses, offices,
etc.) or collective (professional clubs, laboratories, SMEs, schools, etc.)
ā¢ IKM-BN will start with a survey of user preferences; continue by building
the prototype - distributed to voluntary first users (website access; SaaS)
ā¢ User friendly; Internet access to IKM-BN will suffice for any beginner user
to learn quickly to navigate; feedbacks will be very welcome at all times.
DIASPORA
users
LOCAL
users
DIASPORA
interests
LOCAL
interests
ā¢ Users generating ideas, projects, publications, products, services, etc.
ā¢ Users developing research or/and business capacity and skills
ā¢ Users building teams, customers and supply chains
A web-based Science-Technology-Business action platform
with an international network of experts & business actors
3 (of 4) ā IKM-BN to create a web, local Business Nodes
START CONCEPT - details
From here on: platform building-testing iteration cycles
IKM-BN = Interactive Knowledge Maps applied for Brain NetworkingUsers: experts or private citizens, anywhere, having any interest.
IKM-BN aims at helping ALL users advance their
personal and professional interests.
Contact: ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com;
ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
5. Business Space:
products/services
Personal life Space:
happiness & inquiriesOrientation & Meaning
Science Space:
research & publications
Technology Space:
methods & techniques
[obtained] [obtained]
[demanded] [demanded]
[puzzle solving
/ creativity]
solutions
not yet
known
solutions
known &
available
GENERAL LOGIC FRAMEWORK
Every work starts with a QUESTION.
It continues with steps, pathways &
cycles iterated as / often as needed.
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities:
Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/978331914
7017
PRACTICAL DEFINITIONS:
DATA: measured or estimated value
(numbers) of a parameter of interest.
Proof of presence of a phenomenon.
In informatics: all signs encoding info
INFORMATION: the professional
interpretation of the data, e.g.,
whether a pollutant concentration is
above /under an admitted threshold.
KNOWLEDGE: the capacity to place
information into contexts in order to
extract meaning and action options.
In practice, it means: people
These three are often confused.
We can only grow Knowledge inside
minds, we cannot transmit it. What
we transmit is Information & Data.
āAcquiring Knowledgeā happens via
either education-and-experience or
recruiting other people.
A web-based Science-Technology-Business action platform
with an international network of experts & business actors
4 (of 4) ā IKM-BN to stimulate local talent; development
START CONCEPT - details
From here on: platform building-testing iteration cycles
Contact: ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com;
ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
TOPICS
maps
BUSINESS
maps
CITIZEN INTERESTS
maps
SCIENCE
maps
TECHNOLOGY
maps
STAKEHOLDERS
& ACTORS
DEVELOPMENT
ENABLERS
KNOWLEDGE
BROKERS
Types of tools ļ
Types of users ļ
Domain of SCIENCE Domain of REAL LIFE
6. Supplementary Work: details on sustainable communities
[ Interactive Knowledge Maps ā applied for Brain Networking ]
7. Each topic or sub-topic* is understood as part of a holistic concept of sustainable management of cities & communities
* e.g., starting with water, energy, transport, landscape, security, population, buildings, climate, waste, health, leisure, food, etc. Model generalized from Eco-City Reference Model - ECRM (modified after: Ntanou K,
Koos-Morar T, Liamidi H, Dean J, Ciumasu IM, 2014. Is it possible to develop a model of sustainable urban water cycle? Talk at Deltas in Times of Climate Change II, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 24-26 Sept. 2014)
INPUT
[resources]
OUTPUT
[waste]
CITY
LIVEABILITY
How are citizens involved
in the making of their city
City impact upon
natural systems
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-
Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and
Sustainability. Book, Springer
http://www.springer.com/us/book/97
83319147017
Urban eco-cycle models
Sensor networks Participatory models
Decision-support systems
Optimization algorithmsModeling platforms
Urban infrastructure systems
Life Quality
Holistic
parameters
URBAN METABOLISM
[ inter-related fluxes of energy,
mater & information ]
Sustainable Community Reference Model ā SCRM
8. Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
A. FIRSTLY, YOU ADDRESS MULTI-DOMAINS
KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY: BY INCORPORATING
IT INTO A COLLECTIVE EXPERT DECISION
B. YOU FORMULATE THE ELECTED PRIORITY TOPICS AS
MANAGEMENT / LOGISTICS QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
p 7
p 6
p 5
p 4
p 3
p 2
p 1
SELECTEDPRIORITIES
Ranking by voting
in expert group,
& followed by
selection of
priorities
*
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability. Book,
Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ; Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision
trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 80(9):
1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253
DECISION
NODES
Decision question to address: 2
Decision question to address: 1
Decision question to address: 3
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
[ best hope ]
[ insufficient ]
[ status quo ]
C. Finally, this helps a lot:
find catchy [relevant names]
for each of these scenarios.
[ promising ]
* Longer lines signify heavier weights of debated priority topics, as
reflected in the number of votes by the end of expert deliberations.
In various projects, deliberations can be very fast or more elaborated.
Each scenario is the technical result of a series of Yes / No answers.
The No answer stops the series and settles it for a given scenario:
Status quo [No], Insufficient [Yes, No], Promising [Yes, Yes, No],
Best Hope [Yes, Yes, Yes]. Because we know the questions,
we already know what each pathway means in practice.
The entire exercise can be repeated when needed.
9. I.
FIRSTLY, WE TRANSLATE THE PHASE TRANSITION
PERSPECTIVE* into MAJOR THRESHOLDS to pass
II. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY; ANSWERABLE
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ; modified after:
Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ; modified
after: Ntanou K, Koos-Morar T, Liamidi H, Dean J, Ciumasu IM, 2014. Is it possible to develop a model of sustainable urban
water cycle? Talk at Deltas in Times of Climate Change II, Rotterdam, 24-26 Sept. http://www.climatedeltaconference2014.org/
*S-CURVES ARE UNIVERSAL PATTERNS OF CHANGE.
They describe the process of transformation which takes place between two stable states
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 3
Note: The order of priorities is determined by the logic of the phase transition
between two stable states, the first unsustainable, the second sustainable
Each scenario is the technical result of a series of Yes / No answers.
The No answer stops the series and settles it for a given scenario:
Status quo [No], Insufficient [Yes, No], Promising [Yes, Yes, No],
Best Hope [Yes, Yes, Yes]. Because we know the questions,
we already know what each pathway means in practice.
The entire exercise can be repeated when needed.
III. ā Generic names of
scenarios for communities /
cities in transformation.
DECISION
NODES
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
City of Future
City of Past
Fatalistic City
City in
Transformation
2. The city passed
the innovability threshold?
1. The city started
pioneering projects?
3. The city passed
the final sustainability threshold?
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
10. A. FIRSTLY, the Urban Sustainability Nexus
[USN, a core of interdependent topics] to map &
rank priority topics for a given city ā
B. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE UWM, answerable
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
DECISION
NODES
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
III. ā Generic names of
scenarios for the responses
of a city to its crisis situation
[insert name ]
city
[ insert name ]
city
Hopeless
city
[ insert name ]
city
Each topic has three levels:
natural, social & economic.
Idem the entire city system.
Source: * after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ;
* Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ;
* Ciumasu et al., 2012. Complex risks from old urban waste landfills: sustainability perspective from Iasi, Romania. Journal of
Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 16:158-168. http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000090;
* after: Ntanou K, Koos-Morar T, Liamidi H, Dean J, Ciumasu IM, 2014. Is it possible to develop a model of sustainable urban
water cycle? Talk at Deltas in Times of Climate Change II, Rotterdam, 24-26 Sept. http://www.climatedeltaconference2014.org/
Urban strategies must be based on
negotiated common denominators.
Complexity is tractable by dialogue.
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
A strategy for Priority Issue 2 ?
A strategy for Priority Issue 1 ?
A strategy for Priority Issue 3 ?
11. A.
FIRSTLY, we use the Urban Sustainability Nexus*
to map & rank priority topics linked to climateā
B. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE UWM, answerable
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
DECISION
NODES
2. City plan for curbing
greenhouse gas emissions?
1. City plan for adaptation
to climate changes?
3. City plan for strong mitigation
responses (comprehensive)?
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
III. ā Generic names of
scenarios for the responses
of a city to climate changes.
Deep
sustainability
Adapt
to risk
Do
nothing
Efficient
Development
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ; modified after:
Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ; modified
after: Ntanou K, Koos-Morar T, Liamidi H, Dean J, Ciumasu IM, 2014. Is it possible to develop a model of sustainable urban
water cycle? Talk at Deltas in Times of Climate Change II, Rotterdam, 24-26 Sept. http://www.climatedeltaconference2014.org/
*Urban Sustainability Nexus (USN) is a detailed map of topics in
the transition to sustainable cities. It is also incorporated into
the Sustainable Community Reference Model (ECRM) & into
the Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM) & its applications.
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
12. A.
FIRSTLY, we use the Urban Sustainability Nexus*
to map & rank priority topics on urban watersā
B. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE UWM, answerable
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
DECISION
NODES
2. A cross-sectoral & integrated
urban water policy
1. An urban metabolism-
-based water policy?
3. A long-term policy of innovation
for urban sustainability?
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
III. Generic scenario names
on the path to better Urban
Water Management (UWM).
Sustainable
UWM
Smart
UWM
Reactive
UWM
Holistic
UWM
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ; modified after:
Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ; modified
after: Ntanou K, Koos-Morar T, Liamidi H, Dean J, Ciumasu IM, 2014. Is it possible to develop a model of sustainable urban
water cycle? Talk at Deltas in Times of Climate Change II, Rotterdam, 24-26 Sept. http://www.climatedeltaconference2014.org/
*Urban Sustainability Nexus (USN) is a detailed map of topics in
the transition to sustainable cities. It is also incorporated into
the Sustainable Community Reference Model (ECRM) & into
the Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM) & its applications.
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
13. I. FIRSTLY, WE USE THE SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE*
to define three NESTED SUSTAINABILITY FILTERS
II. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY; ANSWERABLE
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017;
Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ;
Ciumasu et al., 2012. Complex risks from old urban waste landfills: sustainability perspective from Iasi, Romania. Journal of
Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 16:158-168. http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000090
* Any economic system is a sub-system of a social system which is itself a sub-system of
a natural system. Nature can exist without humans, humans cannot exist without nature.
An economy is a phenomenon inside a social system >> and cannot exist outside society.
Failing at least one (any) of the three filters makes a community / project unsustainable.
SOCIAL
Sustainability
filter
ECONOMIC
Sustainability
filter
ECOLOGIC
Sustainability
filter
A
B C D
E
III. ā Generic names of
scenarios for communities /
cities in transformation.
The priority order: derived from the nested inclusion relation logic.
When the Ecologic SF is failed, then there is no point of continuing
(except for intellectual speculation); if it is failed, the others will
fail too; if it is ok but then the social SF fails, we already know
that the situation cannot be sustainable.
DECISION
NODES
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
City of Future
Primal Hamlet
Poor Town
Fatalistic Clan
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
2. We passed the social SF ?
1. We passed the ecologic SF ?
1. We passed the economic SF ?
14. A.
FIRSTLY, we use the Urban Sustainability Nexus*
to map & rank priority topics for a chosen city ā
B. POLICY QUESTIONS ļ FORMULATED AS PRIORITY
TOPICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE UWM, answerable
IN THE SIMPLEST WAY POSSIBLE: YES / NO
DECISION
NODES
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
*Urban Sustainability Nexus (USN) is a detailed map of topics in
the transition to sustainable cities. It is also incorporated into
the Sustainable Community Reference Model (ECRM) & into
the Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM) & its applications.
III. ā Generic names of
scenarios for the responses
of a city to its crisis situation
Attractive
city
Dreaming
city
Hopeless
city
Productive
city
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017; modified after:
Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities. Technological Forecasting
& Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253 ;
Modified after the applied course works with graduate students at the University of Versailles (UVSQ), France, 2016-2017
Explicit sets (lists) of topics can be used as start reference
for a community of citizens or/& experts to build a basis
of common denominators & work out the priorities for
subsequent actions.
Priorities can be ranked by voting; and combined with debate scenarios in 2x2 matrix cells,
as illustrated here with the whiteboard and MS Excel sheet drafts (from a French context).
Decision-making in cities / human communities: a DELPHI approach
2. City strategy for infrastructure ?
1. City strategy for education ?
3. City strategy for better housing ?
15. Supplementary Work: BIG PICTURE details on IKM-BN
[ Interactive Knowledge Maps ā applied for Brain Networking ]
16. ECOLOGIC
systems
ECONOMIC
systems
SOCIAL
systems
VALUE
systems
KNOWLEDGE
systems
TECHNOLOGY
systems
CHANGE BY CYCLES
[it starts with culture, it growths by
learning; peaks by techno-economic
progress, i.e., the basis for wellbeing]
CULTURE
systems
TECHNO-BIOSPHERE
systems
SCIENCE
systems
MORAL
systems
TECHNO-SOCIAL
systems
LEARNING
systems
POLITICAL
systems
TECHNO-ECONOMIC
systems
BUSINESS
systems
Local
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios
for Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
B
A
A ā short cycle of change generated by science
B ā long cycle of change generated by science
17. Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017General SCRUM cycles for ScienceāBusiness
Objectivesā Backlog
INTENDED RESULTS
ā¢ List of (sub-)deliverables
Sprint Backlog
PRIORITY WORKS
ā¢ Lists of priorities
Delphi methods* for agile trans-disciplinary work
starting with agreements on values & knowledge
Usable result
RESEARCH
PRODUCT
ā¢ Item 1
ā¢ Item 2
ā¢ Item n
24h
5 days
40 days
SPRINT
RESEARCH ROUND
ā¢ Desk/lab/field work
ā¢ Surveys, interviews
ā¢ Special workshops
ā¢ Literature reviews
*e.g., Ciumasu IM, 2013. Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future
eco-cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(9): 1804-1814.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162512003253
18. SENSORS
(conditions)
PROGRAM
(algorithms)
ACTUATORS
(triggers)
RESULT
(effects)
BEHAVIOR
(actions)
Role
1.1
Role
1.5
Role
1.3
Role
1.7 CO-EVOLUTION OF SITUATIONS & ROLES IN GROUPS
ļ§ Coordinated behavior within a group: a ring of roles
ļ§ Complementary functions and structures in groups
ļ§ Collaborative maximization of energy dissipation
SITUATION OF A GROUP
SITUATION OF AN AGENT
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
Agents develop individual identities out of distinct roles:
in (a holarchy of) groups through in-/cross-group games
19. Normative values
Innovation culture
Short-term
public / people
priorities
Long-term
sustainability
priorities
Economic & All
Interests
Opportunity & Risk
Management
Capacity &
Resources
Technology
Performance
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for
Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
SPACE OF
OPTIONS
20. Technological changes (ārevolutionsā): Why big companies fail?
PRODUCT
PERFORMANCE
TIME
Incumbent market leader ā business relying on āSustaining technologiesā: improved product performance, but costlier
Entrant market underdog ā business relying on āDisruptive technologiesā: lower (start) product performance, but cheaper
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for
Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
Adapted after: Christensen C, 2011 (1997). The
Innovatorās Dilemma. Harperās Business, New York.
New market = the gap between
a productās max. price acceptable
and its min. performance (for the
ājob to be doneā of C. Christensen).
Firms must keep doing what they
do best ā¦ but only up to a point:
the upper market limit. Or they
get disrupted.
21. CONCURRENT
ļ§ Agile (continuous improvement)
ļ§ For complex products, with many variables
ļ§ Non-linear, co-evolutionary dynamics, iterative cycles
ļ§ Dependent on efficient communication & operations
Approaches to solution design
Requirements
Design
Implementation
Verification
Maintenance
SEQUENTIAL
ļ§ Traditional (one-off)
ļ§ For rather simple products
ļ§ Linear, unidirectional āwaterfallā dynamics
ļ§ Dependent on fixed requirements & stable context
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
INITIAL
PLANNING Requirements Design
TestingEvaluation
DEPLOYMENT
22. Accuracy Low Low = The closeness of a measurement
to the actual (true) value
Precision Poor Good = The closeness of agreement
among a set of measurements
Trueness Good Poor = The closeness of the mean of a set of
measurements to the actual (true) value
What is the quality of your DATA?
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
( ISO 5725 )
ABOUT RIGHT OR
PRECISELY WRONG?
YOUR
MEASUREMENTS
probability
density
mean
value
TRUENESS
PRECISION
values
ACCURACY
actual
value
23. From lab to market
PUBLIC
funding
PRIVATE
funding
COMPANIES
UNIVERSITIES
University spin-offs
Science-business
joint projects
Institutes,
PPPs, etc.
Other startups
Scientific success Commercial success
Science-business
joint projects
VALLEY OF
DEATH
*PPP: Public-Private Partnerships
RDI: Research, Development & Innovation
Research
laboratories
Product
development
Scientificpublications
Commercialoffers
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
24. Supplementary Work:
details on Human Communities & Projects & IKM-BN
[ Interactive Knowledge Maps ā applied for Brain Networking ]
25. HUMAN COMMUNITIES
A CITY HAS A DUAL CHARACTER:
ļ¼ It is embedded in a local context
ļ¼ It is connected to global networks
A CITY IS THE BEST TRADE-OFF BETWEEN SCALES:
ļ¼ Large enough to account for realistic system complexity
ļ¼ Small enough to allow feasible project management
Thus a city (any community) can serve as platform and unit of test
and governance in the transition to sustainable development.
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
Definitions of a city ā PERSPECTIVES:
ļ Physics: A complex material and informational system
ļ Engineering: Built environment and infrastructure
ļ Ecology: A colony of the species Homo sapiens
ļ Sociology: A social construct, a place of interaction
ļ Politics: Leadership and community decision making
ļ Economics: A location of production and consumption
CITIES ARE
civilization hubs; engines
of economic development
The majority of the world
population lives in cities.
Therefore, the transition
to sustainability will start
with cities and citizens.
It has already started.
26. ECRM
NEW NEEDS
[usersā surveys, expert
analyses, prototypes]
NEW IDEAS
[ideation workshops,
competitions, conferences]
NEW / TEST PROJECTS
[practice & contexts]
COMPUTER MODELING
[methods, tools & feed-ins]
UP-TO-DATE KNOWLEDGE
[environment, society, economy,
health, engineering, models]
NEW SENSORS, DATA & TESTS
[analytical matrices: water, soil, air,
infrastructure, food, human body]
ā¢ New models
ā¢ Holistic perspective
ā¢ Integration methods
ā¢ Systemic thinking
ā¢ Expert networks
ā¢ Open innovation
Creating options for practice = developing KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION PLATFORMS
OPTIONS /
SCENARIOS
KNOWLEDGE
INTEGRATION
APPROACHES
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios
for Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
Contact: Ioan M. Ciumasu, Interactive Knowledge Maps (IKM),
ioan.ciumasu@gmail.com; ioan.ciumasu@uvsq.fr
27. Communities are in a 'nested inclusion relation'
between economic, social and ecologic systems
ļ A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE & ANALYSIS
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ;
Ciumasu IM et al. 2012. Complex risks from old urban waste landfills: sustainability
perspective from Iasi, Romania. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste, 16(2):
158-168, http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000090
CITY
There is a chronic conflict of priorities that
generates a massive loss of opportunities:
ā¢ Progress is blocked in opposing priorities
between sustainability (science) vs. the public
ā¢ Citizens are lost in a deluge of information
ā¢ Experts are isolated by narrow specializations
SOCIAL
Sustainability
filter
ECONOMIC
Sustainability
filter
ECOLOGIC
Sustainability
filter
A
B C D
E
Urban / business project assessment scenarios
based on sustainability filters derived from the
nested inclusion relation between systems
LEGEND: A, B: some desirable, sustainable situations.
C, D, E: usual situations: unsustainable, because
at least one filter is failed
28. KNOWLEDGE ā ACTION MODELS: reconciling priorities in human communities
CONFLICT RESOLUTION ā principles:
ā¢ Short-term economic incentives do determine
the human priorities and set societal agendas
ā¢ Longer-term prosperity does depend on those
solutions which increase system sustainability
ā¢ Holistic approaches enable new action models:
ā¢ Must start with defining problems based on
the order of priorities expressed by citizens.
ā¢ Continue with generating potential solutions
(i.e. options) which all (without exception) take
into account the systemic sustainability order
of priorities (i.e., necessities for viability as
defined by experts)
> | <
> | <
> | <
1.
Short-term issues / economy
2.
Medium-term issues / society
3.
Long-term issues / ecology
3.
Economic sustainability filter
2.
Social sustainability filter
1.
Ecologic sustainability filter
ORDER OF
PRIORITIES
ORDER OF
PRIORITIES
creation of solutions
definition of problems
SOCIETY
SCIENCESource: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability.
Book, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017 ;
Ciumasu IM et al. 2012. Complex risks from old urban waste landfills: sustainability
perspective from Iasi, Romania. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste, 16(2):
158-168, http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000090
Key conflicts of priorities (Citizens vs. Experts) + intrinsic complexities of natural, social & economic systems =
Human communities are typically unsustainable
29. Supplementary Work: details on Projects & IKM-BN
[ Interactive Knowledge Maps ā applied for Brain Networking ]
30. S-CURVES ARE
UNIVERSAL PATTERNS
OF CHANGE
They describe the process
of transformation which
takes place between
two stable states.
GOAL:
SUSTAINABLE
COMMUNITIES
GENERAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
Globally,
we are about
HERE
The most advanced
āeco-citiesā are about
HERE
Most cities
are about
HERE
WE NEED TOOLS TO PASS
THIS INFLECTION POINT
* ** *
*
*?
*** *
**
*?
** * *
*?
Phase transitions
SOURCE: After: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities:
Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
31. Organization of trans-disciplinary work: COORDINATION
[INFORMATION EXCHANGE & PROCESSING which results in generating COMMON DENOMINATORS]
** As spelled down in projects as work objectives and tasks
*** In the largest sense, including all applied knowledge (āscience of craftā): techniques, skills, methods and (all non-automated and automated)
processes that are used in the accomplishment of the goals. It comprises both hardware (machines) & software (executable protocols).
* Adapted after: Castle D, Culver K, 2013. Getting to āNoā: The method of contested exchange. Science & Public Policy 40(1): 34-42.
https://academic.oup.com/spp/article-abstract/40/1/34/1648344/Getting-to-No-The-method-of-contested-exchange
AGREEMENT ON TECHNOLOGY ***
not agreed AGREED
AGREEMENT
ON GOALS **
not agreed
(4.1) Unprepared endeavor (where
endeavors = problem solving attempts)
(4.3) Partly prepared endeavor,
with disagreements about goals
AGREED
(4.2) Partly prepared endeavor,
with disagreements about technology (4.4) Well-coordinated endeavor
AGREEMENT ON KNOWLEDGE
not agreed AGREED
AGREEMENT
ON VALUES
not agreed (1) Unstructured problems (3) Partly structured problems,
with disagreements about values
AGREED
(2) Partly structured problems,
with disagreements about knowledge (4) Well-structured problems
Primary degrees of
problem structuredness in
pioneering, trans-disciplinary projects *
Primary degrees of
coordination of endeavors
to solve well-structured problems
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities:
Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017
32. *** As described in the innovability threshold; **** As described in the sustainability threshold
***** Project portfolio selection is based on non-violation of constraints, then on the order of priorities identified in the program management process
(for a start reference, see eg, Hassanzadeh F, Nemati H, Sun M, 2014. Robust optimization for interactive multiobjective programming with imprecise information applied to R&D project portfolio selection. European Journal of Operational Research, 238(1): 41-53)
* Understood as agent within the DIKAR_process framework
** Cluster or Network; can be understood as either set of agents (with common goals) and/or unitary collective agent
ADEQUACY TO SUSTAINABILITY ****
not adequate ADEQUATE
ADEQUACY
TO CHANGE ***
not adequate
(4.1) Inadequate project (or series of
projects, i.e., a program *****)
(4.3) Partly adequate project,
with inadequacies to the change
ADEQUATE
(4.2) Partly adequate project,
with inadequacies to sustainability (4.4) Adequate project
SUITABILITY TO TEAM **
not suitable ADEQUATE
SUITABILITY
TO INDIVIDUAL *
not suitable (1) Unfeasible project (3) Partly suitable project,
with unsuitabilities for the individual(s)
ADEQUATE
(2) Partly suitable project,
with unsuitabilities for the group (4) Feasible project
Primary degrees of feasibility in
pioneering, trans-disciplinary projects
Primary degrees of adequacy in
pioneering, trans-disciplinary projects
Organization of trans-disciplinary work: ADEQUACY
[INFORMATION EXCHANGE & PROCESSING which results in generating COMMON DENOMINATORS]
Source: after: Ciumasu IM, 2018. Eco-Cities:
Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability. Book, Springer,
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319147017