Humans in/of/are nature: Re-embedding reality in sustainability sciences

Re-embedding words

We present a fast method for re-purposing existing semantic word vectors to improve performance in a supervised task. Recently, with an increase in computing resources, it became possible to learn rich word embeddings from massive amounts of unlabeled data. However, some methods take days or weeks to learn good embeddings, and some are notoriously difficult to train. We propose a method that ta...

Embedding sustainability in clothing supply chain strategies

The fashion clothing industry is particularly subject to strong external pressure for sustainable behaviour and the increased outsourcing of manufacturing has created long, globally fragmented supply chains. Supply chain management (SCM) has come to the fore in this industry, as the way a firm designs and manages its supply chain can provide competitive advantage in a market focused on cost, sp...

Fisheries Management: Sustainability vs. Reality

Re imaging nature :

Nature of the Information Sciences

This document offers a definition of the Information Sciences and illustrates their impact, especially on universities. For want of popular accounts to serve as reference points for this discussion, it will describe the Information Sciences by comparison to the more traditional sciences. Many points are best made by examples from computer science which is at the core of this constellation of di...