A multilateral effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been implemented around the world. In particular, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) emerged as a market-based approach used to control GHG emissions by providing carbon credits (or allowances). One of the most controversial...

In Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), case retrieval is generally guided by similarity. However, the most similar case may not be the easiest one to reuse (hard to adapt). As recommended by Smyth and Keane, it might be more efficient to use an adaptability criterion to guide the retrieval process...

Assessing products prior to remanufacture is an important part of the remanufacturing process, ensuring that unsuitable cores are removed at an early stage to avoid unnecessary processing. In particular, understanding the economic cost of remanufacturing a product can be an important aspect of...

A look at today's US military will see them operating much beyond the scope of protecting and defending the United States. These operations now consist of, but are not limited to humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and conflict resolution. This broad spectrum of operational environments has...

This article presents a synthesis of knowledge about safety management procedures for critical infrastructure (CI) in the context of risk management theory and the provisions of the Polish law on emergency management of 26 April 2007. In this paper, the inadequacy of the accepted procedures at...

Assessing products prior to remanufacture is an important part of the remanufacturing process, ensuring that unsuitable cores are removed at an early stage to avoid unnecessary processing. In particular, understanding the economic cost of remanufacturing a product can be an important aspect of...

This article presents a synthesis of knowledge about safety management procedures for critical infrastructure (CI) in the context of risk management theory and the provisions of the Polish law on emergency management of 26 April 2007. In this paper, the inadequacy of the accepted procedures at...

In this paper the author shows the importance of multi-agent system in the e-commerce domain, specially for brokerage. He also propose an agent-based architecture for brokerage and a structure for the intelligent broker. The structure may be seen like a multi-agent system, having intelligent...

This paper presents a description of the Enterprise Architecture, the benefits of its use and its key issues. Enterprise Information Architecture is also described and the value that represents in the economic field. Based on the general architecture of the Enterprise Information Architecture...

As it demonstrates evolution in recent years, intelligent agents technology is regarded as an essential tool in automating the decision-making functions and analysis as a means of facilitating and promoting organizational change, with significant potential in many areas of activity, including...