Consumers have different preferences regarding Cloud services. Providers of Cloud services can be limited in their resource capacities or flexibility, and they are exposed to the challenge of how to sell their services efficiently. In this thesis both views are examined. A survey was conducted...

Public-sector policy design is inherently complex: there are multiple stakeholders, multiple objectives, and ambiguous or unknown evidence regarding effective policy interventions. One response to this problem is the design of decision support systems (DSS) to help ordinary citizens as well as...

Structural changes of society, such as urbanisation, economic growth and ageing, have evoked a continuing diversification of forest ownership objectives and management strategies in Finland and other Nordic countries. Traditional forestry extension, by means of selling regular forest plans to...

Due to increasing interest in sustainable development, today s engineer is often tasked with designing systems that are environmentally benign over their entire life cycles. Unfortunately, environmental assessments commonly suffer from significant uncertainty due to lack of information,...

The use of shipping containers for the transport of goods has become indispensable and a crucial factor for globalization by providing inexpensive and safe transport opportunities. It is expected that the number of globally operating containers will increase in the near future. Despite a high...

Der Gedanke der Entscheidungsunterstützung durch externe Daten ist nicht neu, so haben beispiels­weise Wirtschaftsdienste und Marktforschungsinstitute mittlerweile eine lange Tradition. Die erfor­der­lichen Informationen aber genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt, in der richtigen Menge und in...

Recent corporate reporting history is well–known for its corporate failures andquestionable accountancy practices, many of which caused the profession to befrowned upon. However, the splodge on the accounting profession?s reputationgoes deeper than its corporate reporting failures. The...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) proscribes specific levels of contaminates present in rivers and lakes in the UK, these contaminants come from a wide range of sources such as food additives present in faeces, agricultural runoff and drinking water additives such as iron dosing. Water...

Zukünftige Flächenentwicklungspotenziale auf Jahrhundertaufgaben umfassen die Optionen Revitalisierung und Renaturierung, aber auch fließende Übergänge zwischen diesen. Die realen Nutzungspotenziale werden durch primäre Randbedingungen, insbesondere die regionale demographische...

Primary care systems are a cornerstone of universally accessible health care. The planning, analysis, and adaptation of primary care systems is a highly non-trivial problem due to the systems' inherent complexity, unforeseen future events, and scarcity of data. To support the search for...