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Gimt: A tool for ontology and goal modeling in BDI multi-agent design
2014
Designing and developing BDI multi-agent systems would be facilitated by rising up the level of abstraction to use and by a methodological approach for managing it. To this aim it is common the integration of goal oriented analysis techniques with the design and implementation phases. In this fashion, our experience is that the use of an ontology in the early stages of the process is a great support for subsequent phases: goal modeling, agent design and implementation. However, we are aware that building and maintaining an ontology has to be supported by appropriate tools. This paper proposes GIMT (Goal Identification and Modeling Tool) as a further step towards the creation of a complete m…
Design e ficodindia : per uno sviluppo locale sostenibile
2017
L’articolo descrive il rapporto tra il design e un prodotto dell’agroalimentare siciliano, il ficodindia di Roccapalumba, per uno sviluppo economico e territoriale nel rispetto dell’ambiente. A tal fine il ficodindia è considerato risorsa in grado di avviare delle innovazioni, come la valorizzazione degli scarti e la relazione tra gli attori locali. Nell’articolo, per generare una seconda vita agli scarti, si è studiato il ciclo di vita del ficodindia e tra i vari output si è considerato la potatura dei cladodi da cui si è ricavato una fibra, utilizzata in modo innovativo e secondo una visione locale, puntando sul patrimonio culturale e sulle tradizioni. The article describes the relationsh…
Riflessioni sul design inclusivo
2017
Nel 2015 presso la Città della Scienza di Napoli si è tenuto un workshop internazionale con designer e ricercatori italiani e olandesi sulla progettazione di spazi “dedicati alle attività culturali”. Pete Kercher, vicepresidente di “Design for All Italia” e Ambasciatore di “EIDD Design for All Europe DfA”, nel suo intervento ha affrontato il tema del "design inclusivo" o Design for All per l’elaborazione di strategie e di metodologie progettuali indirizzate alla ricerca di soluzioni innovative per abbattere le attuali barriere cognitive e culturali e aumentare l’accessibilità e la partecipazione di tutti gli individui a ogni attività sociale. Una nuova progettazione, quindi, inclusiva e oli…
The dual nature of design management
2018
Design management profession has probably got the least attention in the construction industry. One reason could be the lack of explicit conceptualizations about its nature, subject matter and principles. In this article, a conceptual design management framework is proposed on the premise that design management is the management of a structured system of object and subject-oriented, technical and social design activities. Additionally, an example of a mediating visual model is proposed to facilitate the discussions about design activities and design management in academia and practice. The two major premises of this research are 1) as design management is the management of design activity, …
Investment in Design and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Design Management
2009
Design management is an increasingly important concept, research into which is remarkably scarce. Although the literature suggests that design management has an effect on design effectiveness, there is no empirical support for the impact of design management on firm performance. Furthermore, few studies have quantified the contribution that design makes to company performance. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of design investment on company performance and how this relationship is mediated by design management skills. Structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses on a data set from the Italian and Spanish ceramic tile industry. Results suggest, first, t…
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences
2018
The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations have announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars. The merger rate of binary neutron stars estimated from this event suggests that distant, unresolvable binary neutron stars create a significant astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background. The binary neutron star background will add to the background from binary black holes, increasing the amplitude of the total astrophysical background relative to previous expectations. In the Advanced LIGO-Virgo frequency band most sensitive to stochastic backgrounds (near 25 Hz), we predict a total astrophysical background with amplitude $\Omega_{\rm…
"Stop Making sense" a randomised text design study
2018
The current epistemological scaffolding of psychotherapy and mental health care ruthlessly privileges what is already understood and given shape, to the extent that what is currently meaningless and chaotic is strained out. The present work is an experimental attempt at contesting this way of going about the business of mental (health) care. To achieve this, we attempt to systematically destroy meaning in a text that we ourselves have produced. Through the innovation “randomised text designâ€, we seek to provide space for non-meaning and ignorance within the mental health discourse. What the process of randomised text design allows us to do, is bend away from ideas that hold psychotherap…
Design Synthesis and Biological/Biophysical Evaluation of New Oligopyrrole Carboxamides, Biscarbazoles, Oxocarbazoles and Benzo[a]carbazoles: Antitum…
2006
<strong>In Silico Repurposing, Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Bisacodyl Analogues</strong>
2018
In a recent article was described in silico repositioning, design, synthesis, biological evaluation and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of an original class of anti-inflammatory agents based on a polyaromatic pharmacophore structurally related to bisacodyl (BSL) drug used in therapeutic as laxative.
Design e valorizzazione della produzione locale
2011
Il testo esplora il tema del design per lo sviluppo locale, descrivendo un percorso di ricerca sul campo con l’esempio dello studio di un territorio siciliano. Lo studio, elaborato insieme con gli attori dello sviluppo territoriale (amministratori, Camera di Commercio, associazioni e imprenditori) della provincia di Ragusa, ha esplorato il rapporto tra il design e le risorse materiali e immateriali del territorio siciliano con l’obiettivo di sviluppare nuovi processi di produzione coerenti con il concetto di sostenibilità ambientale, per innovare e consentire una produzione sostenibile e costituire la base per un design “Made in Sicily”.