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Adaptability, Agility, and Resilience Toolset
Published in Alex Gorod, Leonie Hallo, Vernon Ireland, Indra Gunawan, Evolving Toolbox for Complex Project Management, 2019
One of the major challenges in design of complex systems is the management of change in the system itself as well as in its operational environment. Adaptability is a system property that deals with these changes and uncertainty in operational environments. Adaptability expectations can vary depending on the system context. For example, smart home applications require adaptability to temperature changes by self-adjusting its heating and air-conditioning. In a different system such as platooning autonomous vehicles, adaptability means ability to self-organize and respond to changing traffic conditions. Therefore, project managers should have a clear definition of adaptability for their system context to be able to manage it effectively. To help project managers, this section provides a review of various definitions of adaptability for complex engineering systems.
Aligning community resilience and sustainability
Published in Paolo Gardoni, Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2018
Therese P. McAllister, Steven Moddemeyer
When to resist? When to adapt? When to transform? Alternative approaches that consider adaptation and recovery are under development by a number of planners and designers. For example, community development and renovation projects are considering how to incorporate adaptability and recovery into engineered designs for uncertain future events, such as sea level rise, increased precipitation, or elevated temperatures. Such designs may include a mix of civil engineering, land-use planning, landscape architecture, and natural shoreline systems that can be adjusted or modified in 10–20 years as needed (Russell 2017). All communities need to develop approaches to adaptation, not only to natural and environmental conditions but also for social and economic conditions that can affect their ability to manage and recover from shocks and stressors.
Conceptual and methodological frameworks
Published in Mark S. Reed, Lindsay C. Stringer, Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change, 2016
Mark S. Reed, Lindsay C. Stringer
Adaptability: if the system is exposed and sensitive to the effects of land degradation and climate change (e.g. increased incidence and severity of droughts), then it is necessary to assess the adaptive capacity of the system, i.e. the extent to which it is possible to change the way the system functions or is used, so that livelihoods can still be maintained in other ways. Adaptation may take the form of: coping (by enacting short-term, immediate responses to reduce risk from climate variability and drought to livelihoods); adjustment (more deliberate planned change, representing adaptation to longer-term climate change and land degradation); and/or transformation (fundamental changes to either system function or political economic structures, often involving behavioural changes, and leading to the establishment of new long-term social-ecological states) (Folke et al., 2010; Béné et al., 2012; Keck and Sakdapolrak, 2013; Stringer et al., in press).
Investigating the Combination of Adaptive UIs and Adaptable UIs for Improving Usability and User Performance of Complex UIs
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020
Le Zhang, Qing-Xing Qu, Wen-Yu Chao, Vincent G. Duffy
Blom (2000); Fan and Poole (2006) defined customization as “a process that changes the functionality, interface, information access and content, or distinctiveness of a system to increase its personal relevance to an individual or a category of individual”. They considered customization, personalization, adaptation, and individuation as synonymies. Adopting from their definition, UI customization is defined as a UI that changes or allows users to change its content and layout to be relevant to a user or a user role. UI customization can be recognized as adaptive UIs or adaptable UIs based on the user participation (Makris, 2016). When users are implicitly involved in the customization, which means the UI automatically tailors itself for users, the customized UI is called an adaptive UI. Adaptivity is “employing explicit mental or cognitive modeling of the user to enable the system to distinguish among different users”. When users explicitly adjust the UI, the customized UI is called an adaptable UI. Adaptability is a functionality that allows “the user to explicitly specify how he or she wants the system to be different”.
Exploring User Experience of Smartphones in Social Media: A Mixed-Method Analysis
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2018
Adaptability refers to a product’s ability to adjust its functioning to changes in its environment. This ability has been traditionally considered an aspect of the intelligence of artifacts (Turing, 1950). It could be categorized into the three sub-dimensions of context-awareness, reactivity, and maintainability. Context-awareness is concerned with how to acquire and react to context. It is important to determine the context for reacting to changes of environment. Smart products are able to sense physical information (e.g., via a temperature sensor), virtual information (e.g., about the current state in the cooking process maintained by another smart product) and to infer higher level events from this raw data (e.g., the user has fished cooking). Situational and contextual information allow smart products to adapt their interaction with other products and users accordingly, as well as to infer new knowledge. Reactivity is the ability of a product to react to changes in its environment (Bradshaw, 1997). It also refers to adjusting their functions to changes in the external environment. Maintainability differs from the others and is related to how to maintain the condition of products (e.g., on or off, version of software in products, etc.) according to users’ needs. Users would not want to continually reboot or upgrade individual smart products, but users might need to turn them on or off, or reset their controls at certain points. The maintainability of smart products can help users in this regard.
Adaptive Cognitive Manufacturing System (ACMS) – a new paradigm
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2022
Hoda ElMaraghy, Waguih ElMaraghy
Adaptability is the ability to adjust to new conditions and be modified for a new goal, use, or purpose. It is the most relevant characteristic of evolving manufacturing systems. Earlier paradigms such as flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems have utilised the concept of adaptability which is an enabler of flexibility (ElMaraghy 2005). A new classification of manufacturing systems adaptability, which differentiates static, dynamic, cognitive, and extreme adaptability, has been introduced (ElMaraghy et al. 2021).