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- Borgo, S (author), Carrara, M. (author), Garbacz, P (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author) conference paper 2015
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Borgo, S. (author), Franssen, M.P.M. (author), Garbacz, P. (author), Kitamura, Y. (author), Mizoguchi, R. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)Humans are always interested in distinguishing natural and artificial entities although there is no sharp demarcation between the two categories. Surprisingly, things do not improve when the second type of entities is restricted to the arguably more constrained realm of physical technical artifacts. This paper helps to clarify the relationship...journal article 2014
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Smulders, F.E.H.M. (author), Dorst, K. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this contribution design thinking is taken as a transfer of design methods from product development to other domains. It is argued that the success of this transfer depends on the organisational context offered to design thinking in these other domains. We describe the application of design methods in product development and in two new...conference paper 2014
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- Vermaas, P.E. (author), Eckert, C. (author) journal article 2013
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Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this position paper, the ambiguity of functional descriptions in engineering is considered from a methodological point of view. Four responses to this ambiguity are discussed, ranging from defining a single meaning of function and rejecting the different meanings that are currently used in engineering to accepting these meanings as coexisting...journal article 2013
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Vermaas, T. (author)In Nederland ligt ongeveer 27% van het landoppervlak onder zeeniveau. Ons economische hart - (het westen van) de randstad - is erg kwetsbaar voor overstromingen vanuit zee. Sinds 1990 wordt de kust beschermt door zandsuppleties, ook wel zachte bescherming genoemd. In 2001 is besloten om het totale zandvolume van het actieve kustsysteem - het...report 2012
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Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this paper innovation by design is characterised schematically and methodological with the aim of analysing how projects of innovation by design can be managed. First, I approach innovation by design from an engineering perspective, and show that the incorporation of innovation into design projects has complicated their management by making...conference paper 2012
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Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this paper, a proof is given that in design methods, the relation between technical functions and their subfunctions in functional descriptions of technical products cannot be analysed as a formal relation of parthood. This result holds for design methods in which transformations of flows of energy, material and signals are accepted as...journal article 2012
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Kats, L.C.L. (author), Vermaas, R. (author), Visser, E. (author)The reliability of compilers, interpreters, and development environments for programming languages is essential for effective software development and maintenance. They are often tested only as an afterthought. Languages with a smaller scope, such as domain-specific languages, often remain untested. General-purpose testing techniques and test...report 2011
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Vermaas, D.A. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author), Hoitink, A.J.F. (author)Research on lateral exchange of streamwise momentum between parallel flows in open channels has mainly been focused on compound channels composed of a main channel and a floodplain, on mixing layer development downstream of river confluences, and on partially vegetated channels. This study aims to establish the mechanisms responsible for...journal article 2011
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Vermaas, P.E. (author), Carrara, M. (author), Borgo, S. (author), Garbacz, P. (author)In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance...journal article 2011
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Vermaas, P.E. (author), Tan, Y.H. (author), Van den Hoven, J. (author), Burgemeestre, B. (author), Hulstijn, J. (author)In this paper, we consider the meaning, roles, and uses of trust in the economic and public domain, focusing on the task of designing systems for trust in information technology. We analyze this task by means of a survey of what trust means in the economic and public domain, using the model proposed by Lewicki and Bunker, and using the emerging...journal article 2010
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Bravenboer, M. (author), Kalleberg, K.T. (author), Vermaas, R. (author), Visser, E. (author)Preprint of paper published in: Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), 72 (1-2), 2008; doi:10.1016/j.scico.2007.11.003 Stratego/XT is a language and toolset for program transformation. The Stratego language provides rewrite rules for expressing basic transformations, programmable rewriting strategies for controlling the application of rules...report 2008
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Borgo, S. (author), Carrara, M. (author), Garbacz, P. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this paper we present a formal characterization of the engineering concepts of behavior and function of technical artifacts. We capture the meanings that engineers attach to these concepts by formalizing, within the formal ontology DOLCE, the five meanings of artifact behavior and the two meanings of function that Chandrasekaran and Josephson...journal article 2008
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Carrara, M. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins (Sameness and substance renewed, 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained...journal article 2008
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