Disruptive Visions Research Articles

Manifold grasshopper optimization based extremely disruptive vision transformer model for automatic heart disease detection in raw ECG signals

Manifold grasshopper optimization based extremely disruptive vision transformer model for automatic heart disease detection in raw ECG signals

6G System architecture: A service of services vision

The architectures of mobile networks have seen an unprecedented techno-economic transformation, fusing the telcommunications world within the cloud world, adding the spices of Software Engineering to the overall system design, and ultimately yielding the concept of Telco Cloud. This has brought significant benefits in terms of reducing expenditure and operational costs, flexibility in deployment, and a faster time to market. The key enablers are network function virtualization, software-defined networking, and edge/cloud computing. Artificial intelligence is also kicking in this arena. When all these technologies are well integrated, the creation and life-cycle management of fully programmable, flexible, service-tailored, and automated end-to-end network slices/services become possible. This will support diverse 5G and beyond 5G services, spanning from tactile IoT to pervasive robotics and immersive services. This paper introduces an unprecedented and disruptive vision for 6G that shifts the perception of future mobile networks from the old-fashioned concept of "network of networks" towards a new vision of "service of services." The paper then introduces the functional model of the envisioned system architecture, along with its components. It then provides a high-level description of the logical architecture.

Reflective Analysis of Failure and the Performance of Subsequent Ventures

Learning is a process that begins with the occurrence of concrete experiences that are reflectively analyzed and transformed into new knowledge that is tested using active experimentation. Although the notion that business failure provides an opportunity for learning is widely accepted, existing studies have not sufficiently paid attention to the entrepreneur’s learning behavior. This study investigates learning with a focus on the relationship between the reflective analysis of prior business failure and the subsequent venture performance. We examine the efficacy of the entrepreneur’s reflective analysis of the cause-and-effect of failure events. We also examine the boundary conditions of disruptive visions and industry changes, which may affect this relationship. Our sample is 286 entrepreneurs enrolled in a support program for reentry after business failure in Korea. We find that efficacious reflective analysis of failure increases the subjective positive perception of subsequent venture performance and that this relationship was weakened when entrepreneurs had disruptive visions for subsequent ventures or when there was low industry similarity between the failed and subsequent venture. These results inform entrepreneurship research on failure attribution, entrepreneurial learning, and reentry decision-making.

Review of a Disruptive Vision of Future Power Grids: A New Path Based on Hybrid AC/DC Grids and Solid-State Transformers

Power grids are evolving with the aim to guarantee sustainability and higher levels of power quality for universal access to electricity. More specifically, over the last two decades, power grids have been targeted for significant changes, including migration from centralized to decentralized paradigms as a corollary of intensive integration of novel electrical technologies and the availability of derived equipment. This paper addresses a review of a disruptive vision of future power grids, mainly focusing on the use of hybrid AC/DC grids and solid-state transformers technologies. Regarding hybrid AC/DC grids in particular, they are analyzed in detail in the context of unipolar and bipolar DC grids (i.e., two-wire or three-wire DC grids), as well as the different structures concerning coupled and decoupled AC configurations with low-frequency or high-frequency isolation. The contextualization of the possible configurations of solid-state transformers and the different configurations of hybrid transformers (in the perspective of offering benefits for increasing power quality in terms of currents or voltages) is also analyzed within the perspective of the smart transformers. Additionally, the paper also presents unified multi-port systems used to interface various technologies with hybrid AC/DC grids, which are also foreseen to play an important role in future power grids (e.g., the unified interface of renewable energy sources and energy storage systems), including an analysis concerning unified multi-port systems for AC or DC grids. Throughout the paper, these topics are presented and discussed in the context of future power grids. An exhaustive description of these technologies is made, covering the most relevant and recent structures and features that can be developed, as well as the challenges for the future power grids. Several scenarios are presented, encompassing the mentioned technologies, and unveiling a progressive evolution that culminates in the cooperative scope of such technologies for a disruptive vision of future power grids.

Until the Fog of Uncertainty Lifts – Disruptive Founding Visions and New Venture Funding Success

Looking at today's startup landscape, it is easy to get the impression that today's founders are in a continuous race with their peers to develop the most disruptive vision. But does a disruptive vision actually help new ventures to succeed in the long run? We investigate if and how long disruptive founding visions are related to new venture funding success in the seed and post-seed funding stages. Drawing on a longitudinal, multi-source dataset of 318 US-based high-tech ventures, we use a new, time-conscious analysis method, the Aalen additive hazards model, to find that disruptive founding visions have a constant and positive effect on the time to seed funding. However, approximately two years after seed funding – when the initial fog of uncertainty lifts – the positive effect of a disruptive founding vision disappears in the post-seed funding stage. Our findings contribute to the theoretical and methodological advancement of the entrepreneurship discipline at the intersection of visionary leadership, disruptive innovation theory, and time-conscious entrepreneurship research. Further, we offer pragmatic managerial advice for founders who develop their founding vision.

Urban Chandelier: How Experiences of Being Vision Impaired Inform Designing for Attentiveness

Prevailing conceptions of disability in architectural discourse give rise to the devaluing of disabled people's lived experiences. However, several studies in architecture and disability studies show how disability experience may lead to a careful attentiveness toward the qualities of the built environment that are relevant for design. Using focused ethnography, we examine how architect William Feuerman's disruptive vision impairment restructured his attention. The insights gained from his experience were incorporated conceptually into his design practice, and the resulting design principles were realized in one of his office's projects—Urban Chandelier, a design intervention positioned in an urban installation. Feuerman's experiences encouraged him to deliberately introduce disruption into his design, aiming not to disable everyone, but to make passers–by attentive to their surroundings. He re–organizes people's modes of attention through the distinct visual qualities of architecture, generating new meaning, in a similar manner as the stroke that affected his attention. We conclude that considering disabled people's lived experiences demonstrates potential in designing artifacts experientially interesting for a broad population, including but not limited to disabled people.

Constructing assembly design model capable of capturing and sharing semantic dynamic motion information in heterogeneous CAD systems

Over the last decades, collaborative assembly design has received much attention, which has provided fruitful results in terms of data models, knowledge-based, and top-down geometric modeling approaches, to name a few. Particularly, researchers have focused their efforts towards assembly relationships within product models, but have limited the scope to static assembly geometric description as currently stated in computer-aided design (CAD) systems. A disruptive vision is assumed in this research work, arguing that the assembly design itself presents a dynamic nature via, especially, dynamic motion. Such a paradigm shift requires an appropriate logical and semantic foundation to augment current CAD systems and data models’ capabilities with the capture of dynamic phenomena such as assembly motions and kinematic behaviors. Traditional CAD systems nowadays can handle the kinematics-related motion-related information; however, the interoperation of this motion-related information from one CAD system to the other is still a limitation of the interoperability standards. To tackle this research challenge, this paper aims at defining an original framework built upon a formal ontology to capture and share dynamic assembly motion among heterogeneous CAD systems. The formal ontology uses spatiotemporal mereotopology, which serves as a theoretical backbone to qualitatively describe the dynamic behavior of a product. This theory addresses the qualitative description of the temporal dimension over the spatial dimension of 3D objects. The proposed ontology is then enhanced to maintain semantic continuity of the spatial and temporal aspects embedded in assembly design ontology models. Built with a Web Ontology Language (OWL) data structure to interact with a CAD system and a motion visualization application, the ontology ensures the dynamic motion information capturing and sharing. SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) is utilized to show the semantic reasoning among the moving and non-moving parts of the product assembly. As a result, a semantic articulation ensuring flexibility and interoperability as a competitive industrial edge is demonstrated with proof of concept to be effective in a collaborative assembly design environment.

Energy- and Cost-Efficient Physical Layer Security in the Era of IoT: The Role of Interference

IoT is emerging as the future evolution of the Internet, aiming to provide connectivity for everyone and everything. Since IoT is expected to carry important and private information, a high level of PHY security is critical for wireless communications in IoT, as a complement for traditional security techniques that are employed at high layers. In this overview, we examine the recent interest in energy-efficient and cost-efficient PHY solutions for securing downlink IoT transmission through interference exploitation. This exciting line of research departs from conventional interference cancellation, and judiciously employs the inherent interference as a useful element for LUs while obstructing the eavesdropping of information. We first discuss the concept of CI, and then elaborate the fundamental CI signal design that employs the traditionally undesired interference as a constructive element to LUs while ensuring they are destructive to potential Eves. Subsequently, we illustrate several low-hardware-cost techniques to inherit the advantage of CI in an energy- and cost-efficient manner, from the perspective of HBF and DM. This family of techniques brings a disruptive vision of interference management for securing wireless communications with an eye on low-cost and hardware-constrained devices tailored for IoT systems.

Do Disruptive Visions Pay Off? The Impact of Disruptive Entrepreneurial Visions on Venture Funding

AbstractEntrepreneurs often articulate a vision for their venture that purports to fundamentally change, disturb, or re‐order the ways in which organizations, markets, and ecosystems operate. We call these visions disruptivevisions. Neglected in both the disruption and the impression management literature, disruptive visions are widespread in business practice. We integrate real options and impression management theories to hypothesize that articulating a disruptive vision increases the likelihood of the venture receiving funding but reduces the amount of funding obtained. A novel dataset of Israeli start‐ups shows that a standard deviation increase in disruptive vision communication increases the odds of receiving a first round of funding by 22 per cent, but reduces amounts of funds received by 24 per cent. A randomized online experiment corroborates these findings and further demonstrates that the expectation of extraordinary returns is the key mechanism driving investors’ sensemaking.

Disarticulate—Repurpose—Disrupt: Art/Archaeology

This project sees archaeology and art as a political tool for disrupting conventional, politically loaded narratives of the past. Rather than producing institutionally safe narratives conventionally certified as truth, archaeologists should follow the lead of artists who use the past as a source of materials to be reconfigured in new ways to help people see in new ways. Using as an example the works of the Canadian artist Ken Monkman, who subverts nineteenth- century landscape painting to reinsert the missing critiques of Anglo-American colonialism, dominance of nature, and heteronormativity, this paper advocates disarticulating materials from the past by severing them from their context, repurposing them to bring contemporary concerns to the fore and creating new, disruptive visions from them. The article proposes the practice of an art/archaeology.

Do Disruptive Visions Pay Off? The Impact of Disruptive Framing on Venture Funding.

We investigate whether framing an entrepreneurial vision in a disruptive way helps or hampers subsequent investment acquisition. Disruptive framing of entrepreneurial visions refers to the promotion of an interruption or displacement of an existing technology, service, or business model. We contrast this with achievement framing, which communicates previous and current achievements. Drawing from real options theory, we hypothesize that disruptive framing increases the likelihood of getting funded, but attracts fewer amounts. These effects are exacerbated by achievement framing. A novel dataset of Israeli start- ups shows that a standard deviation increase in disruptive vision communication increases the odds of getting funded by 14 percent, but reduces amounts of funds received by 36 percent. In addition, achievement framing complements disruptive framing in the odds of receiving funding, but substitutes it in the amount of funds received. These findings offer new insights on how entrepreneurs frame their innovations in the disruption process.

Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw’s Disruptive Visions of the Old New World

Art HistoryVolume 34, Issue 4 p. 696-713 Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw’s Disruptive Visions of the Old New World Kenneth Haltman, Kenneth HaltmanSearch for more papers by this author Kenneth Haltman, Kenneth HaltmanSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 August 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2010.00842.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume34, Issue4Special Issue: Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USAEdited by David Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks September 2011Pages 696-713 RelatedInformation

Disruptive visions: predictive simulation?between scientific method and clinical trial is the role of modeling and simulation in scientific discovery and validation

The foundations of surgery have rested upon the passing of knowledge from generation to generation by mentors and manuscripts. Until the 1900 s, the passage of knowledge was through tradition. Since then, it has changed from observation and experience to the scientific method to clinical trials. A new approach, derived from other scientific disciplines, is that of predicting results from modeling and simulation, which will allow for acceleration of the process of validation of discoveries and optimizing the implementation of clinical trials in order to more rapidly transfer trusted knowledge from generation to generation.

Disruptive visions: surgical education.

Technological change, decreased financial support for medical education, and social oversight (in the form of the "To Err Is Human" report, HIPPA, and reduced work hours) are forcing a rethinking of the traditional model of surgical education to improve patient safety. New approaches to evaluating surgical competence, such as objective assessment, in combination with new technologies, such as the Internet and surgical simulators, provide the tools to effect a revolution in surgical education and training. Competency based upon quantifiable criteria measures must replace the traditional subjective assessment. The implementation requires accurately defining the elements of training, establishing new quantifiable metrics, stringently measuring performance against criterion, and reporting outcomes throughout the career of a surgeon.

Disruptive visions: a robot is not a machine...systems integration for surgeons.

The discipline of surgery has become even more complex with the rapid introduction of revolutionary technologies. Laparoscopic surgery is just the simplest and first of these new directions. Robotic surgery and image-guided therapy are the next generation. As biosurgery and other modalities are introduced, the complexity will increase exponentially. In order to understand and utilize the new technologies, surgeons need to be grounded in the science of systems integration. The pervasive influence of this new requirement, as well as the skills, education, training, and assessment needs, are defined.

Disruptive visions: biosurgery.

There are a number of new therapeutic options generated by the biotechnology, bioengineering, and bioimaging revolutions in terms of organ-specific designer drugs, genetically engineered cells, cell-specific proteins and drugs, directed energy instruments, therapeutic microdevices, etc. Many of these new therapies need to be placed exactly on, within, or adjacent to an organ, and many others are delivered by endoluminal or endovascular approaches. The common requirements are (1) the accurate delivery of the modality and (2) the functional importance of targeting the biologic basis rather than the anatomic structure--hence the term biosurgery. As more of these therapies achieve clinical applicability and FDA approval, there will be the need for the precision of delivery to be at the micro- and nanoscale, which is well beyond human physical limitations. The surgeon of the future must be able to identify those therapeutic modalities that would benefit from such exact placement or implantation and acquire the skills, training, and equipment to use surgical expertise to deliver these new modalities. A review of some of the emerging opportunities is presented. Ignoring these challenges will relinquish these new procedures to other nonsurgical interventionalists, perhaps to the detriment of patient safety.

Disruptive visions.

A number of concepts have been advocated for the next generation operating room based on some inadequacies of the current systems. Most have focused on removing excess tubes and wiring, others on information systems or robotics. An analysis of other industries, a projected direction of current technologies, a focus on the importance of integrated information systems, and a serious consideration of emerging basic technologies suggest a significantly different approach.

Disruptive visions.

Numerous advanced technologies, both medical and nonmedical, are emerging faster than their social, behavioral, political, moral, and ethical implications can be understood. Some of these technologies will fundamentally challenge the practice of surgery: human cloning, genetic engineering, tissue engineering, intelligent robotics, nanotechnology, suspended animation, regeneration, and species prolongation. Because of the rapidity of change, the current status of these emerging technologies with their specific moral and ethical issues must be addressed at this time by the new generation of surgeons, or we must all face the consequences of an uncontrolled and unprepared future.

Disruptive visions

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