These assumptions often correspond to what I like to call "pictures" — comprehensive views of "the lay of the land" that guide our thinking on a given topic.
Recently, renowned information systems researchers have emphasized the demand for more comprehensive views of the research object.
With the advancement in the technology, it is possible now to obtain comprehensive views of the biological systems and to study large patient cohorts in a streamlined manner.
Since climate change drives hazards and vulnerabilities and since disaster risk reduction efforts provide more comprehensive views of vulnerability and resilience, a prudent place for climate change would be placement within disaster risk reduction.
In this paper, we symbolize conventional technology selection approaches as Basic Decision Equations (BDE) and introduce a connectivity matrix and processing methods so as to arrive at simple and comprehensive views of the nature of engineering technology selection problem.
The methodology integrates both existing and ad hoc tools to improve mainly the following skills: holistic and comprehensive views of real problems, working in teams, communication abilities, and handling advanced numerical models and scientific computing.
