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Showing 1 to 20 of 308 for “"socio-technical"”.
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Software Ecosystem Sustainability, a Socio-Technical Perspective
… sustainability, in particular in terms of what socio-technical activities during a SECO's lifecycle are beneficial. This thesis aims to empirically study SECOs' sustainability across four major SECO lifecycle phases, i.e., onboarding, micro-collaboration, release synchronization, and …
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Holistic Security Requirements Engineering for Socio-Technical Systems
… A primary reason for these breaches is the “socio-technical” nature of today’s systems that consist of an amal- gam of social and human actors, processes, technology and infrastructure. We refer to such systems as Socio-Technical Systems (STSs). Finding secure solutions for STSs is a …
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Socio-technical architectural model of collaborative engineering design
… engineering design may be considered a socio-technical process. However, literature suggested that the fundamental constitution of the social and technical in the collaborative engineering design process and their interrelationships are unclear. Furthermore, most the identified studies …
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Entity recognition for multi-modal socio-technical systems
… as a method for extracting information about socio-technical systems from unstructured, natural language text data. This process is limited by the set of entity classes considered in many current ER solutions. In this thesis, we report on the development of an ER classifier that supports a …
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Participating and designing around algorithmic socio-technical systems
… users currently interact with opaque algorithmic socio-technical systems and what is missing in this interaction. I show that when an algorithmic system is opaque, users try to add “seams,” visible hints disclosing aspects of automation operations, into the system manually to increase the …
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Creative networks : socio-technical systems for loosely bound cooperation
This thesis introduces a programming environment entitled Share that is designed to support and encourage loosely bound cooperation between individuals within communities of practice through the sharing of code. Loosely bound cooperation refers to the opportunity members of communities have to …
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STS: a Security Requirements Engineering methodology for socio-technical Systems
… software systems are situated within larger socio-technical systems, wherein they interact — by exchanging data and delegating tasks — with other technical components, humans, and organisations. The components (actors) of a socio-technical system are autonomous and loosely controllable. …
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Collaboration in scientific digital ecosystems: A socio-technical network analysis
<p>This dissertation seeks to understand the formation, operation, organizational (collaboration) and the effect of scientific digital ecosystems that connect several online community networks in a single platform. The formation, mechanism and processes of online networks that influence members …
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Green Urbanism in Contemporary Cities: A Socio-technical Transition Analysis
… Urbanism. Firstly, it examines how different socio-economic contexts and local dynamics influence how Green Urbanism is conceived and applied. Secondly, it assesses the drivers of and barriers to green urban transitions, and what factors in cities provide potential sources of leverage for a …
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Change or be changed: understanding resilience in socio-technical systems
… domains, from those governing societies, to technical experts working on well-defined tasks. These stakeholders generally want their system to survive, or even thrive, in the face of uncertainty and unexpected influences. To describe this desire, people, from politicians to CEOs, use the word …
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CONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH DATA: THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL PRODUCTION OF MARKETING INSIGHTS
This thesis explores the socio-technical construction of marketing insights in the age of Artificial Intelligence by focusing on sustainability, a theme increasingly central to consumption practices and discourses. The theoretical background of this work lies at the intersection of sociology, …
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Procrastination on social networking sites: types, triggers, and socio-technical countermeasures.
… be informed by psychological theories as well as technical and socio-technical countermeasures. To achieve this goal, a mixed methods approach was conducted with SNS users, including focus groups and diary studies, co-design sessions and surveys. The results of these studies helped to develop a …
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Protecting critical infrastructure systems using cyber, physical, and socio-technical models
… system defense that uses cyber, physical, and socio-technical models to protect critical infrastructure systems."
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Socio-technical aspects of concurrent engineering in construction - a German perspective
… in the AEC sector faces barriers deriving from technical and sector specific issues, but also from socio-technical and organisational factors. As socio-technical issues have been neglected in research, this study investigates these socio-technical barriers with regard to performance improvements …
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Enhancing methods for modeling and estimation of complex socio-technical systems
This thesis consists of three studies designed to improve the rigor of simulation models of complex dynamic systems in social sciences and to enhance the use of quantitative data in the estimation of model structure and parameters. The data available to social scientists developing models of …
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Socio-Technical Journeys: Utilizing Digital Narratives for Management and Community Support
… spaces, position these journeys as inevitably socio-technical. Emotional well-being is vital for individuals navigating these emotional rollercoasters, as it helps them maintain resilience and informs their decision-making. This dissertation broadly introduces a notion of socio-technical …
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Designing Socio-Technical Systems to Illuminate Possibilities for a Vulnerable Population
… We explored the potential role that socio-technical systems and technology designers can play in assisting the survivors to build on their existing assets towards their vision of "dignified reintegration". The research involves three fieldwork and a remote study, each one leveraging …
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Production Pressure in Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Analysis, Measurement, and Prediction
… organizational goals - efficiency and safety, in sociotechnical systems (STSs). This research mainly focuses on production pressure (PrP) which is considered as one of the main negative outcomes of overprioritizing the efficiency aspect of STSs. This work seeks to introduce novel methodologies for …
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From Socio-Technical Challenges to Transferable Recommended Actions in Interdisciplinary Research Environments
Research data management is increasingly recognised as a necessary component of good scientific practice, yet often perceived as an administrative burden rather than a structurally integral part of interdisciplinary research. This dissertation addresses that gap through sustained empirical …
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