The management of process industries is becoming in the recent years more and more challenging, given the stringent environmental policies as well as raising energy costs and the always-present drive for profit. A way to help plant decision makers in their daily choices is to refer to...

The FARMSCAPE Information System emerged in a long-running research program aimed at making simulation models useful to Australian farmers in managing climatic variability. This paper is about how well it has worked. This is reported in relation to two standards: (1) the value to thinking and...

Information Technology Governance (IT Governance) is an integral part of enterprise governance which aims at controlling the formulation and the implementation of strategic objectives of an organization. The implementation of IT governance strategies generates goals and projects whose...

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...

Ziel der Master-Thesis von S. Belenkiy zum Thema "Entwicklung von Software f??r die Simulation im Bereich Unternehmungsmanagement", ist die Entwicklung eines Tools, das sowohl f??r das Training von F??hrungskr??ften, als auch zum Einsatz in der Hochschulausbildung geeignet ist. Das vorgestellte...

Seasonal climate forecasting offers potential for improving management of crop production risks in the cropping systems of NE Australia. But how is this capability best connected to management practice? Over the past decade, we have pursued participative systems approaches involving...

The aim of this research in progress is to examine the effect of CO2-emission trading and the intensified application of renewable energy sources to the liberalized power market. The research approach applies methods from a combination of economics, natural sciences and computer science in order...