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The application of game theory on customisation strategies in the construction industry
No full textAs an interdisciplinary topic in architecture and the built environment, mass customisation has successfully flourished and thrived on technology and knowledge transfer both in its core concept from the manufacturing industry and in secondary concepts borrowed from other disciplines. This chapter uses the game theory as an established mathematical theory in economics to show how informal rules can decrease willing to take shortcuts in fulfilling rules, regulations and requirements while offering customisation; a higher choice for a better value to the end user, customer or client in the building industry. This will be initiated with an introduction to the concepts and an analytical review of the theory and how it works in a society. The discussion will then be followed by an analogical comparison between different perspectives in a society, in general, and the building industry, or in a more specific focus, construction economy, for the application of this theory. Finally the chapter concludes that this strategy works at a theory level and some proof of concept should be designed and implemented to demonstrate its practical application in professional practice in the building industry
Data for: Crime Prevention in Urban Spaces through Environmental Design: A New Critical UK Perspective
No full textIn this study:Supplementary Material 1 contains the questionnaire survey.Supplementary Material 2 contains the audit checklist.Supplementary Material 3 contains the themes emerged from interviews
Advancements of mass customisation in service and manufacturing industries: lessons for the built environment
No full textMass customisation is a well-known strategy in manufacturing and service industries but still has to be investigated in the built environment, architecture, and construction with reference to the specifics of those disciplines. The two mainstreams - the manufacture/service industries and the building industry - are fundamentally different in terms of the final product, the production process, the cash flow, and the value chain amongst many other aspects. Building upon the existing literature of mass customisation in the pioneering industries this chapter investigates those achievements with an aim to facilitate their transfer and employment in the construction industry. It draws a comparative analysis between the two sectors to point out similarities and differences. This helps show the way forward if any attempt towards mass customisation and personalisation is to be successfully made in the building industry. It subsequently outlines the feasibilities and obstacles on the way of application of those strategies in the built environment. Finally the chapter concludes with some practical guidelines for successful employment of customisation and personalisation strategies in the built environment in the future
Mass customisation in the built environment, architecture & construction : an introduction
No full textChallenged by a global crisis, the building industry is currently seeking new orientation and strategies. Stakeholders in the built environment are being forced at an extensive and unprecedented pace to improve a set of conflicting objectives. On one hand, they want to enhance the cost efficiency and economic sustainability of their constructions. On the other hand, the market demands that the functional performance, indoor quality, comfort levels and social sustainability of the building shall be increased. And at the same time, building professionals concentrate on the reduction of energy consumption, the ecological footprint of a building process and its carbon emission, boosting the environmental sustainability. Finally, designers also have distinct aesthetic values they would like to realise in their design. This apparently conflicting set of goals demands a new industrial paradigm in the built environment. In industrial markets, mass customisation emerged more than two decade ago as a paradigm for exactly this purpose - offering highly customised products with mass production efficiency. From its origins in machinery and IT hardware mass customisation recently gained growing popularity in consumer goods industries. In particular, the advent of the internet enabled its introduction in many markets. This chapter briefly recaps this development and provides a common understanding of the elements of mass customisation as a business paradigm. In addition, the individual chapters in this handbook are introduced
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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