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Mario A. Leiva, Alejandro J. García, Paulo Shakarian and Gerardo I. Simari
Decision support tools are key components of intelligent sociotechnical systems, and their successful implementation faces a variety of challenges, including the multiplicity of information sources, heterogeneous format, and constant changes. Handling su...
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Celeste Campos-Castillo, Noelle Chesley and Onur Asan
The stability of physicians? authority over patients despite decades of changes in medicine conflicts with newer institutionalist accounts of professionals as change agents rather than instruments of reproduction. We analyzed whether the cultural scripts...
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Jamie McEvoy
There is growing concern about the sustainability of groundwater supplies worldwide. In many regions, desalination?the conversion of saline water to freshwater?is viewed as a way to increase water supplies and reduce pressure on overdrawn aquifers. Using...
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Robert Johnston,Simon Milton
In this paper we argue that theories of agency form a foundation upon which we can build a deeper understanding of information systems design. We do so by firstly recognising that information systems are part of purposeful sociotechnical systems and that...
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Stefan Strauß
The increasing use of AI in different societal contexts intensified the debate on risks, ethical problems and bias. Accordingly, promising research activities focus on debiasing to strengthen fairness, accountability and transparency in machine learning....
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Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, Aggeliki Androutsopoulou, Stefanos Gritzalis and Yannis Charalabidis
The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679/EC, the Regulation for the protection of personal data, is a challenge and must be seen as an opportunity for the redesign of the systems that are being used for the processing of ...
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Simon Rogerson
An inclusive information society needs an infrastructure built upon systems which are in harmony with citizens. This paper discusses some of the contextual issues which need to be addressed to realise this goal. There is a need to strive continually to d...
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Khalilullah Mayar, David G. Carmichael and Xuesong Shen
The resilience of building structures?as plain technical/physical/engineering systems or complex sociotechnical systems exposed to perturbations and change?has become increasingly important as natural disasters are on the rise and the world is changing r...
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Donna Champion,Sylvain Cibangu
Pág. 15 pgs.
End-user engagement is considered essential when designing new sociotechnical systems, but in the context of designing large-scale infrastructural systems such as communications networks, this ideal is rarely put into practice. We examine the challenges ...
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Donna Champion,Sylvain Cibangu
Pág. 15 pgs.
End-user engagement is considered essential when designing new sociotechnical systems, but in the context of designing large-scale infrastructural systems such as communications networks, this ideal is rarely put into practice. We examine the challenges ...
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Niranjan Ravi and Mohamed El-Sharkawy
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has revolutionised a wide range of human activities, including the accelerated development of autonomous vehicles. Self-navigating delivery robots are recent trends in A.I. applications such as multitarget object detection,...
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Ira Puspitasari, Shukor Sanim Mohd Fauzi and Cheng-Yuan Ho
Participatory medicine and e-health help to promote health literacy among non-medical professionals. Users of e-health systems actively participate in a patient social network system (PSNS) to share health information and experiences with other users wit...
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Thomas Schinko,Gabriel Bachner,Stefan Schleicher,Karl W. Steininger
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Limiting global warming to prevent dangerous climate change requires drastically reducing global greenhouse gases emissions and a transformation towards a low-carbon society. Existing energy- and climate-economic modeling approaches that are informing po...
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Katerina Bernardova Sykorova
TOPIC: The task of the 21st century is the implementation of manned flights in Earth?s orbit with the view to building orbital and planetary bases. This requires addressing the impacts on people and small social groups in terms of psychological, psychoso...
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