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We conducted an ethnographic field study examining how a building design team used representational artifacts to coordinate the design of building systems, structure, and architect...
Melanie Tory, Sheryl Staub-French, Barry A. Po, Fu...
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We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...