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Transformative power: a study in human service organization (2006)
Book Chapter
May, T. (2006). Transformative power: a study in human service organization. In H. Beynon, & T. Nichols (Eds.), Patterns of work in the post fordist era :fordism and post-fordism. Cheltenham, Gloucester: Edward Elgar

Although the activities of large industrial and financial corporations dominate economies around the world, their impact on the distribution of employment and the use of new production techniques is much disputed. In this two-volume set, the editors... Read More about Transformative power: a study in human service organization.

Foundations of concurrent engineering (2006)
Book Chapter
Koskela, L. (2006). Foundations of concurrent engineering. In C. Anumba, J. M. Kamara, & A. Cutting-Decelle (Eds.), Concurrent Engineering in Construction Projects (12-29). Oxford: Taylor and Francis

Should clients drive innovation? Mind, method and motivation (2006)
Book Chapter
Brandon, P. (2006). Should clients drive innovation? Mind, method and motivation. In P. Brandon, & S. Lu (Eds.), Clients driving innovation: moving ideas into practice. WileyBlackwell

Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars (2006)
Book Chapter
Bryant, C., Fredouille, D., Wilson, A., Jayawickreme, C., Jupe, S., & Topp, S. (2006). Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars. In J. Fürnkranz, T. Scheffer, & M. Spiliopoulou (Eds.), Machine learning: ECML 2006 (54-65). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11871842_10

We are interested in using Inductive Logic Programming(ILP) to infer grammars representing sets of protein sequences. ILP takes as input both examples and background knowledge predicates. This work is a first step in optimising the choice of backgrou... Read More about Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars.

Trust and Commercial Managers: Influences and Impacts (2006)
Book Chapter
Swan, W., McDermott, P., & Khalfan, M. (2006). Trust and Commercial Managers: Influences and Impacts. In D. Lowe (Ed.), Commercial Management of Projects: Defining the Discipline. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470759509.ch8

The prelims comprise: Introduction What is trust? Commercial manager in construction networks Conclusions

Universities, regional policy and the knowledge economy (2006)
Book Chapter
May, T., & Peters, M. (2006). Universities, regional policy and the knowledge economy. In J. Kinchloe, K. Hayes, K. Rose, & P. Anderson (Eds.), The Praeger Handbook of Urban Education. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger

Maintaining that there is nothing simple about urban education, this work approaches the study of schooling in cities as a complex universe of the poorest students and schools alongside the wealthiest. Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is... Read More about Universities, regional policy and the knowledge economy.

Integration of building and urban n-dimensional data to support intelligent cities (2006)
Book Chapter
Wang, H., Hamilton, A., Tah, J., & Tanyer, A. (2006). Integration of building and urban n-dimensional data to support intelligent cities. In G. Aouad, A. Lee, & S. Wu (Eds.), Constructing the future: nD modelling (350-371). Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users (2006)
Book Chapter
Murano, P. (2006). Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users. In C. Chen, J. Filipe, I. Seruca, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise information systems VII (241-248). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5347-4_27

This paper addresses and resolves an interesting question concerning the reason for anthropomorphic user interface feedback being more effective (in two of three contexts) and preferred by users compared to an equivalent non-anthropomorphic feedback.... Read More about Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users.

The impact of display system and embodiment on closely coupled collaboration between remote users (2006)
Book Chapter
Otto, O., Wolff, R., & Roberts, D. (2006). The impact of display system and embodiment on closely coupled collaboration between remote users. In R. Schroeder, & A. Axelsson (Eds.), Avatars at work and play: collaboration and interaction in shared virtual environments (131-149). Netherlands: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3898-4_6

Challenges faced by the quantity surveying profession: gender perspective (2006)
Book Chapter
Amaratunga, R., Shanmugam, M., & Elvitigalage Dona, N. (2006). Challenges faced by the quantity surveying profession: gender perspective. In R. Rameezdeen, & I. Seneviratne (Eds.), Customising the Quantity Surveying Education, Department of Building Economics. Sri Lanka: University of Moratuwa

Principles of research into teaching (2006)
Book Chapter
Amaratunga, R., & Senaratne, S. (2006). Principles of research into teaching. In R. Rameezdeen, & I. Seneviratne (Eds.), Customising the Quantity Surveying Education. Sri Lanka: University of Moratuwa

Anatomy of the polycentric metropolis: Eight mega-city regions in overview (2006)
Book Chapter
Hall, P., Pain, K., & Green, N. (2006). Anatomy of the polycentric metropolis: Eight mega-city regions in overview. In P. Hall, & K. Pain (Eds.), The Polycentric Metropolis: learning from mega-city regions in Europe (19-52). London: Earthscan

The informational geography of Europolis: Mapping the flow of information (2006)
Book Chapter
Hall, P., Pain, K., & Green, N. (2006). The informational geography of Europolis: Mapping the flow of information. In P. Hall, & K. Pain (Eds.), The Polycentric Metropolis: learning from mega-city regions in Europe (70-87). London: Earthscan Publications

Ecology of intermediation (2006)
Book Chapter
Medd, W., & Marvin, S. (2006). Ecology of intermediation. In K. Green, & S. Randles (Eds.), Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation. Edward Elgar

This book explores the disciplinary interfaces and practical implications of working across the two disciplines of industrial ecology (IE) and innovation studies (IS). Both disciplines have something to say about instigating environmental improvement... Read More about Ecology of intermediation.

A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set (2006)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., Freitas, A., & Johnson, C. (2006). A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set. In Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation - GECCO '06 (35). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/1143997.1144003

Many data mining applications involve the task of building a model for predictive classification. The goal of such a model is to classify examples (records or data instances) into classes or categories of the same type. The use of variables (attribut... Read More about A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set.