Reducing uncertainty in sustainable interpersonal service relationships: the role of aesthetics

Xenakis, Ioannis

doi:10.1007/s10339-017-0819-4

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“…As decision-making is an integral part of any design process [9], uncertainty in the design process is referred to as design-uncertainty [15], which will, if not addressed, ultimately lead to engineering reworks and project delays [16]. According to [17], a general view is that uncertainty is the highest at the beginning and then it is reducing during time with generation of relevant information that is made available.…”

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Streamlining the Decision- Making Process on Tubular Rigid Busbar Selection During the Planning / Designing Stage by Utilizing 3D Substation BIM Design Software

Foškulo¹,

Kokoruš²

2022

joe

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For Utilities, each substation is regarded as an asset. Managing of assets is one of domains of Asset Management including Life Cycle Costing (LCC) as a decision-making criterion. However, LCC as a decision-making criterion should be applied on an entire substation taking into account all of the potential cost influences for the purpose of achieving of an effective substation management. Asset management as a decision-making process should be observed within a larger context and should be more focused on risk management, as all real decisions include an element of risk due to present uncertainties. Two promising avenues are explored in regards to more comprehensive and rigorous up-front planning through usage of Information Technology (IT). While up-front planning falls under the domain of Lean philosophy, Building Information Modeling (BIM) falls under the category of agile decision-support tools. Utilization of both is explored from a perspective of design-uncertainties under both product and process design. Standard specifications and standard designs are another form of applied Lean Philosophy that reduces design-uncertainty and variability. However, a range of technical solutions stemming out of the standardization can be quite wide. Customization involves specification and design of new / innovative designs with wide range of technical solutions as well. Due to external pressures focused on shortening of the project delivery time, there is a need for a faster project time throughput. This is reflected in the form of a requirement for more rapid engineering decision-making and faster decision cycles. Streamlining of a decision-making process related to the engineering is all about engineers’ awareness of the situation from the project level perspective coupled with utilization of decision-support tools for creation and reuse of knowledge. Plan – Do – Study – Orient (PDSO) cycle is a decision-making model that supports creation and reusability of knowledge along with providing an explanation in regards to the time dimension relating to decision-making, and as such is presented in this paper. The rigid busbar system design is an iterative process influenced by many factors, defined either as design variables or design constraints. As rigid busbars are gaining more popularity for both greenfield and brownfield investments, the rigid busbar system design is explored from a perspective of decision-making streamlining. The case of the rigid busbar system design of El Chaparral project in El Salvador is given.

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Section: Literature Review Design Uncertainties From Process Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Streamlining the Decision- Making Process on Tubular Rigid Busbar Selection During the Planning / Designing Stage by Utilizing 3D Substation BIM Design Software

Foškulo¹,

Kokoruš²

2022

joe

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“…Our decision to model the organization's confidence in the correctness of its design activities is motivated by the observation that design decisions are often made under considerable uncertainty 43,44 . This uncertainty can be broadly classified as exogenous, which is caused, for example, by the market and the environment, and endogenous, which is caused by the activities in the design process itself 13,45 .…”

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An evaluation of the optimality of frequent verification for vertically integrated systems

Kulkarni

Salado

et al. 2020

Systems Engineering

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Verification activities, such as inspection, testing, analysis, and demonstration, improve one's confidence in the system meeting the system requirements during the development process. Frequent verification is often advocated as a strategy that minimizes costs of rework over the entire design process, where frequent verification involves verifying after any change in the design. However, this strategy is yet to be validated. In this paper, we develop a belief‐based model of verification in systems design to determine the conditions under which frequent verification is an optimal strategy for a vertically integrated organization. Our model uses belief distributions to capture the organization's dynamic confidence in the system design meeting a requirement of interest during the development process. It also captures the organization's dynamic confidence in the correctness of its development activities (or design process) as a function of past verification activities and current system maturity. The analysis of our model shows that frequent verification is a cost‐minimizing strategy for any level of belief in satisfying the requirement only when the organization has high confidence in the correctness of its design activities and the expected cost to rework a faulty design is greater than the costs to set up the verification activities throughout the development process. Otherwise, strategies with infrequent verification are superior. Our work contributes to the growing body of literature on the theoretical foundations of systems engineering and engineering design and seeks to provide practitioners with a means to determine optimal verification strategies.

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“…It also allows them to experience the affective qualities associated with the movements. Finally, Xenakis ( 2018 ) argues that the aesthetic experience can be embedded in an interpersonal experience allowing construction of meaning, evaluation and achievement of particular goals.…”

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From “Einfühlung” to empathy: exploring the relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience

2018

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Is there a relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience? This question is motivated not only by the fact that historically experiences of both kinds have often been accounted for in terms of “empathy”, the English translation of the German term “Einfühlung”, but also by the fact that some contemporary theories refer to mechanisms underlying both aesthetic and interpersonal experience. In this Editorial introducing the special section titled “From ‘Einfühlung’ to empathy: exploring the relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience”, we briefly sketch these two motivations and the relationship between the different mechanisms that have been associated with both aesthetic and interpersonal experience.

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Reducing uncertainty in sustainable interpersonal service relationships: the role of aesthetics

Cited by 4 publications

References 99 publications

Streamlining the Decision- Making Process on Tubular Rigid Busbar Selection During the Planning / Designing Stage by Utilizing 3D Substation BIM Design Software

Streamlining the Decision- Making Process on Tubular Rigid Busbar Selection During the Planning / Designing Stage by Utilizing 3D Substation BIM Design Software

An evaluation of the optimality of frequent verification for vertically integrated systems

From “Einfühlung” to empathy: exploring the relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience

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