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Wicked Problems – Social Messes
Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2011
This is the first dedicated book to be published on computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a non-quantified modelling method. It presents the history and theory of GMA and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. Eleven case studies are presented...
by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal incriminating information or...
Geometry and Analysis of Fractals
Hong Kong, December 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This volume collects thirteen expository or survey articles on topics including Fractal Geometry, Analysis of Fractals, Multifractal Analysis, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, Probability and Stochastic Analysis, written by the leading experts in their respective fields. The articles are based...
Biorefinery 2030
Future Prospects for the Bioeconomy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
This book investigates the functioning and ecosystems of biorefineries and assesses the potential of the industrial bioeconomy. The authors present a case study of the biorefinery at Bazancourt Pomacle, near Reims, France, as an outstanding illustration of the creation, work processes, financing,...
by Pavel V. Shevchenko
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The management of operational risk in the banking industry has undergone explosive changes over the last decade due to substantial changes in the operational environment. Globalization, deregulation, the use of complex financial products, and changes in information technology have resulted in exposure...
Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’...
Creating Conditions for Promising Collaboration
Alliances, Networks, Chains, Strategic Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This publication focuses on the conditions for promising collaboration. Collaboration is becoming a dominant instrument in today's economy and society and manifests itself in many shapes and forms. It is a challenging instrument which still isn't very well understood and poses the business community...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovation capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level. Communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This research handbook provides a comprehensive, integrative, and authoritative resource on the main strategic management issues for companies within the e-business context. It covers an extensive set of topics, dealing with the major issues which articulate the e-business framework from a business...
Legislative Delegation
The Erosion of Normative Limits in Modern Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
An overarching question of contemporary constitutionalism is whether equilibriums devised prior to the emergence of the modern administrative-industrial state can be preserved or recreated by means of fundamental law. The book approaches this problem indirectly, through the conceptual lens offered...
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book is about privacy interests in English tort law. Despite the recent recognition of a misuse of private information tort, English law remains underdeveloped. The presence of gaps in the law can be explained, to some extent, by a failure on the part of courts and legal academics to reflect...
by Juval Portugali
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. In this work, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful...
Tropospheric Ozone Abatement
Developing Efficient Strategies for the Reduction of Ozone Precursor Emissions in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The occurrence of high concentrations of ozone during summer episodes in the troposphere over Europe is a problem still unsolved. Although a number· of measures have been implemented that will achieve a further reduction of precursor emissions in the next years, this will not be sufficient to reduce...