Resting on the competencies above the Val IT Research Group is focused on the four following research themes; innovation, participation, heterogeneity and measurement.
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Innovation
- Open innovation and architecture of participation
- Cognitive and psychosocial approach on innovation of e-services
- Sustainable innovation (economic, environmental and social)
- Global logistics and lean thinking
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Participation
- User centered requirements elicitation processes
- Work systems modeling
- Participatory methodologies and philosophies
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Heterogeneity
- Decision making with conflicting objectives
- Computer based decisions support
- Framework for multi-stakeholder and multiple objectives decision modeling in systems engineering
- Visualizing intentionality tensions and multiple actor roles
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Measurement
- Defining and measuring value
- Understanding perceptions of value