This paper explores the possibilities of chance discovery in building design and construction knowledge towards knowledge reuse from past project experiences captured in a enterprise data store. The proposed approach leverages two innovative technologies, (1) ThinkTank™, a web-based...

Creativity protocols and methodologies tend to be time consuming if applied manually. This paper presents how information technologies can support innovation and creativity for collaborative scenario creation and discussion. The fusion of change discovery, genetics algorithms, data mining, and...

When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred, Twitter was used as an infrastructure for sharing information carried by other media. In other words, Twitter is considered as a “meta medium.” Earthquake-related tweets included information that was of questionable veracity, contained vicious...