The 15-minute city is a well-known concept and widely analysed in academic research. Experiments have often taken place with top-down pilot cases, often without citizen involvement.

Experiences show that the 15-minute city has given rise to some ...

In this work, we formulate the problem of team formation amidst conflicts. The goal is to assign individuals to tasks, with given capacities, taking into account individuals' task preferences and the conflicts between them. Using dependent rounding ...

As automated shuttle buses gradually become a part of urban traffic solutions, their interactions with vulnerable road users need careful consideration. However, the cyclists’ perspectives on autonomous shuttle buses have not been explored extensively. ...

Conventionally, merging code files is performed using generic line-based merging algorithms (e.g., diff3) that are unaware of the syntax and semantics of the programming language, outputting conflicts that could be avoided. Structured and semistructured ...

This paper reports on empirical work conducted to study perceptions of unfair treatment caused by automated computational systems. While the pervasiveness of algorithmic bias has been widely acknowledged, and perceptions of fairness are commonly studied ...

Smart devices are increasingly being designed for, and adopted in, the home environment. Prior scholarship has investigated the challenges that users face as they take up these devices in their homes. However, little is known about when and how users or ...

Variability models (e.g., feature models) are a common way for the representation of variabilities and commonalities of software artifacts. Such models can be translated to a logical representation and thus allow different operations for quality ...

Consider distributed transactional memory systems where transactions residing at nodes of a communication graph operate on shared, mobile objects. A transaction requests the objects it needs, executes once those objects have been assembled, and then ...

A "rightful machine" is an explicitly moral, autonomous machine agent whose behavior conforms to principles of justice and the positive public law of a legitimate state. In this paper, I set out some basic elements of a deontic logic appropriate for ...

In this paper, we present GraphTM, an efficient and scalable framework for processing transactions in a distributed environment. The distributed environment is modeled as a graph where each node of the graph is a processing node that issues ...

Tn this paper I set out a new Kantian approach to resolving conflicts and dilemmas of obligation for semi-autonomous machine agents such as self-driving cars. First, I argue that efforts to build explicitly moral machine agents should focus on what Kant ...

Social interactions can be both positive and negative, and at various spatial and temporal scales. Negative interactions such as conflicts are often influenced by political, economic and social pre-conditions. The signatures of conflicts can be mapped ...

Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisions of the ones who upload them have the potential to harm the privacy of the others. Previous works uncovered coping strategies by co-owners to manage their ...

In recent years, mid-air gestures have become a feasible input modality for controlling and manipulating digital content. In case of controlling TVs, mid-air gestures eliminate the need to hold remote controls, which quite often are not at hand or even ...

Social media involve many shared items, such as photos, which may concern more than one user. The challenge is that users’ individual privacy preferences for the same item may conflict, so an approach that simply merges in some way the users’ privacy ...

This article investigates relationships between media, mood, and communication in teams, and studies how they are related to project success. Team projects are an essential part of the software engineering curriculum. Student teams carry out full ...

There are many tools that help software engineers analyze data about their software, projects, and teams. These tools primarily use visualizations to portray data in a concise and understandable way. However, software engineering tasks are often multi-...

Time pressure imposed to the engineering design process is one fundamental constraint pushing engineers to rush into known solutions, to avoid analysing properly the environment of a design problem, to avoid modelling design problems and to take ...

Large or critical software projects often identify particularly-critical quality attributes (QAs), often called non-functional requirements or ilities, and organize Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to address them. Frequently, the resulting IPT solutions ...

Large or critical software projects often identify particularly-critical quality attributes (QAs), often called non-functional requirements or ilities, and organize Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to address them.Frequently, the resulting IPT solutions ...