The Design of Take-Away Garbage Collection System Based on Service Design

When students are asked to visualize service design concepts, they usually try to tell an engaging story with video clips of users utilizing their service design. Since their version of a service design concept does not exist yet, they will try to create touchpoints such as a kiosk or product, app prototypes on mobile devices, and have a supporting cast of actors to portray service design representatives in their story. If their service design is set 15-25 years in future, the storytelling can be even more challenging because everything needs to look more futuristic to match the time period the service design concept is being proposed for. Everything including the buildings, infrastructure, stores, vehicles, people, clothing, etc. need to look like they are from the future. Trying to create futuristic looking environments, and elements for the live actors to interact with can be extremely time consuming and require a large amount of money to virtually and/or physically create, however, with new AI tools, entire rendered futuristic environments can be generated with much less time and money. The following case study describes methods and tools that 3rd year industrial design students utilized to create futuristic backdrops and environments in conjunction with actors in front of green screens to tell their service design concept stories. With new AI tools, the future of service design storytelling can be done with much less time and money, and looks to be inspiring and exciting!

We describe a technique for storage allocation and garbage collection in the absence of significant co‐operation from the code using the allocator. This limits garbage collection overhead to the time actually required for garbage collection. In particular, application programs that rarely or never make use of the collector no longer encounter a substantial performance penalty. This approach greatly simplifies the implementation of languages supporting garbage collection. It further allows conventional compilers to be used with a garbage collector, either as the primary means of storage reclamation, or as a debugging tool.Our approach has two potential disadvantages. First, some garbage may fail to be reclaimed. Secondly, we use a ‘stop and collect’ approach, thus making the strategy unsuitable for applications with severe real‐time constraints. We argue that the first problem is, to some extent, inherent in any garbage collection system. Furthermore, based on our experience, it is usually not significant in practice. In spite of the second problem, we have had favourable experiences with interactive applications, including some that use a heap of several megabytes.

Some programming languages and computer systems use dynamic memory allocation with garbage collection. It would be useful to understand how the utilization of memory depends on the stochastic parameters describing the size and life distributions of the cells. We consider a class of dynamic storage allocation systems which use a first-fit strategy to allocate cells and perform noncompacting garbage collections to recover free memory space when memory becomes fully occupied. A formula is derived for the expected number of holes (available cells) in memory immediately following a garbage collection which specializes to an analogue of Knuth's 'Fifty Percent' rule for nongarbage-collection systems. Simulations confirm the rule for exponentially distributed cell lifetimes. Other lifetime distributions are discussed. The memory-size requirements for noncompacting garbage collection are also analyzed.

Innovative service design is crucial in the ever-changing healthcare environment in order for organizations to hold competitive advantage. The concept of service design thinking refers to the marketing and design of services that improve the customer experience and the interactions between customers and service providers. Innovative thinking in service design can help organizations gain competitive advantage. The challenges with service design thinking in healthcare and innovative ways of thinking about service design in healthcare are introduced, as well as ways to build and sustain competitive advantage in healthcare.

Service design has to do with making services meet the user's needs. Service design can be used to improve an existing service or to create a new one. We conducted a study aimed to further the concept of service design through an investigation of the situation of teachers and workers at one of the State Secretariats of Education in Mexico regarding the management of administrative procedures. The complexity of a procedure depends on many factors, such as time to obtain a resolution, trips to the management offices, varied requirements, physical documentation, and process clarity. Commonly, governments are asked to provide these procedures more efficiently. In order to make progress towards our goal, we applied 6500 surveys to teachers of elementary education levels of the Secretariat. We detected difficulties related to the lack of communication bridges, the lack of tools to facilitate the process of starting a procedure, the high costs for the management of procedures, and the performance of the Secretariat in this field.

Management and Leadership Innovations, vol. 38 of Advances in Librarianship presents techniques, cases and theoretical papers on how libraries and other non-profit organizations can achieve sustainability through application of the UN's Agenda 21, how to interview candidates through non-traditional and interactive processes to assess 'soft skills' needed to join a team, how a model was developed to ensure successful school libraries, and how academic libraries can provide leadership in sustaining and preserving their surrounding communities' history and culture. It also offers chapters on the utility of gossip in management, how to provide mindful leadership within an organization, and how to identify and manage levels of stress and burnout. The volume presents a case study of how a library altered the skill sets of subject librarians to function in teams using a matrix approach in order to better serve clients. Another innovation is represented by a chapter on staff development and service through participation in a community of practice. Also included is a chapter on service design a relatively new concept of service design which is critical in improving user/customer satisfaction and patronage.

The purpose of this research is to produce ulos revitalization and create added value for the green sustainability of ulos production, oriented branding and its marketing so as to increase the life force of weavers and micro-entrepreneurs. Respondents are weavers and training entrepreneurs of ulos, retailers with a total of 316 people engaged in the production and service of Ulos production. Data collection was conducted by survey methods and questionnaires with statements used on a scale of 1-10. Data processing results with SEM AMOS show that green sustainability of Ulos oriented branding (GSB) proved unable to mediate between Product Innovation (PDI), Process Innovation (PCI) and Marketing Performance (MPF). In other words, green sustainability does not directly prove an improvement in marketing performance. GSG shows that it is able to improve Order Management (OMG). The process emphasizes on the relevance of green sustainability, it can be seen that PDI and PCI are proven to improve GSB. Sustainability of green branding can only be achieved when there is product and process innovation. SDL demonstrates the need for the development of new service innovations by investigating the prerequisites and general principles for developing sustainability. Dominant logic treats services as a category of market offerings to be developed and managed like ulos products. The concept of service design has been developed referring to a subset of "green" processes associated with rendering activities to define a concept, structure, or service infrastructure. This research invites ulos observers to understand the values of Ulos authenticity and its culture in sustainable entrepreneurship, inviting weavers and entrepreneurs to have prosocial motives that influence their interest in sustainable ulos entrepreneurship and the role of academia in promoting sustainable entrepreneurial practices.

The aim of this article, underpinned by service design concept and case analysis, is to show how intelligent clinic and its consultation experience can be better optimized based on product service system theory. With the rapid development of intelligent medical, most researches focus on the hardware, the interaction between users and products while researches on the whole process of service provision is not systematic, which results in the innovation of improving the quality of medical services mainly concentrated in hospitals, medical platforms, family doctors and other fields. To complement the mismatch between facilities and service model of intelligent clinic, typical cases were analyzed to sort out the pain points. From the perspective of hospital, patient and doctor’s value proposition, the new concept of product service system is optimized based on the whole process as well as integrating the concept of scene design. Finally, a service blueprint and a product service system model matched with the intelligent clinic are launched. As the direct result of the optimization, there were predictable and significant improvements in the whole process of service provision and experience.KeywordsProduct service designIntelligent clinicValue propositionService blueprintHuman factors

What are service design concepts in AT-ONE and how is the workshop process supporting the generation of these concepts? Based on the ongoing AT-ONE project this paper will outline some of the main methodological and theoretical foundation for generating concepts for services seen from a design perspective. Through the use of a combination of the Vision-based approach (Lerdahl; 2001); the systems perspective and concept definitions (Keinonen & Takala; 2006) a service design concept definition is proposed. The main methods and approach from a design perspective regarding clustering (Tassoul & Buijs; 2006) and approach towards design are summarized to describe the overall approach towards conceptualization. The AT-ONE approach regarding the support tools for moving from ideas to concepts is reviewed. In the discussion the workshop results are compared with the Service Concept definition and ATONE workshops possibility to support the process of generating concepts. Furthermore the challenge of divergence in both process and content sets a challenge for process of clustering towards conceptualization. Together this points towards the limitation of the workshop setting being the ability to sets out directions for further conceptualization rather than actual concepts.

With the rise of e-commerce and the rapid development of Express business, express cabinets have become a basic facility to solve the asymmetry of time between consignees and courier. In 2018, Qingdao, China has included express cabinets in social public service facilities. But the standard of express cabinet facilities is not uniform. This article investigates the existing intelligent express cabinet brands in the market, establish the usability evaluation indicators of the intelligent express cabinet service system; then build a System Usability Scale, analysis the data of the SUS to establish a preliminary standard for the availability of the intelligent express cabinet service system. Finally, starting from the service design concept, optimize the intelligent express cabinet service system, which is mainly used for the “last mile” delivery service.

ABSTRACTThis conceptual paper answers the question: How do we design service experiences in whole to increase the well-being of all participants in the healthcare system – patients, families, and caregivers? In order to do so, we position service design as an essential tool and even a mindset needed for transformative service research success. We discuss the transformative role service design plays in improving service and consumer entities’ well-being with a focus on how this approach can lead to improved healthcare service outcomes. We also add to the conversation surrounding service and consumer entities’ well-being by broadening the concept and application of service design to consider social, existential, psychological, and physical well-being. We particularly explore how healthcare services can benefit from further consumer engagement and collaborative patient–provider relationships, two key factors essential for redesigning the industry.

The yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis has undergone widespread colonization of the urban environment in the recent past. The first urban breeding gulls were recorded in the historical centre of Venice, Italy, in 2000, and by 2005 there were already 24 roof-nesting pairs, with this number increasing significantly over the last decade. In 2016, a new door-to-door garbage collection system was introduced in Venice to prevent the accumulation of rubbish in the streets and limit the trophic resources available for the species. This study provides an up-to-date estimate of the Venice yellow-legged gull urban population using distance sampling method. We also studied the effect of the new waste collection system on the species by comparing the population estimate before (2017) and after (2018) the full implementation of this change and by analysing the trend of individuals collected in the old town by the wildlife recovery service during 2010–2018. Results estimated ca. 430 breeding pairs in June 2018 showing a 36% decrease with respect to 2017. We also found a decrease in the number of 1-year-old birds and pulli collected by the wildlife recovery service starting from 2016, when the policy implementation began. Our data did not show a significant decrease in the overall number of individuals, suggesting that the new policy has a stronger effect on the breeding success of the species than on adult survival. This study emphasizes the importance of preventing rubbish accumulation in the streets as factor for reducing the abundance of urban yellow-legged gulls.

Android operating system has become one of the most popular smartphone platforms. A large number of applications are developed for Android Runtime (ART). Garbage Collection (GC) is an essential function of ART for Java-based applications. GC suspends all the application threads, called Stop The World (STW), and sacrifices application's performance. For reducing pauses to check heap, generational GC was proposed. It separates objects into two groups, the objects which probably die in the next GC and the others. Then, it tries to reduce search space and time to check. With this GC, accurate estimation of object lifetime is important. In this paper, we investigate objects' lifetime trend in modern Java-based applications of Android, and discuss a method for improving GC based on this trend. First, we introduce our monitoring system for object creations and collections in ART. Second, we present the monitoring results of recent popular Android applications and reveal the relations between lifetimes and object sizes.

In this study, the total volume of garbage per year is estimated by the possibilistic regression analysis using the consumption expenditures of households as the independent variables. At the same time, the fuzzy quantification theory I is used to estimate which expenditures affect the total volume of CO2 emissions due to garbage. In Nagano city, the garbage collection system have changed over the years. Therefore, numeric value between 0 and 1 were assigned to the garbage collection systems and used as the fuzzy measure. The fuzzy partial correlation coefficients between the total amount of CO2 emissions and expenditures show that the groups of goods such as vegetables or confectioneries affect the amount of CO2 emissions, while household goods such as furniture do not have much of an effect.

We have seen in the last chapter that in the area of distributed garbage collection algorithms exist, that detect whether one object is garbage depending on the number of references held by others. These other objects fit our definition of a dependency object in Definition 2-1 quite precisely, if we define a parent relation as “holds reference”. The problem of garbage collection is thus similar to the orphan detection problem for mobile agents. Moreover, the path created by local reference counters is similar to the paths in the path concept, i.e. in some algorithms we have an analogue to the problem how an agent can be found. Thus solutions that are similar to those proposed in Chapter 4 for the control of mobile agents have been developed in the area of distributed garbage collection.KeywordsMobile AgentTarget NodeLocal ReferenceGarbage CollectionParent ObjectThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.