MONTANA’S FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING TECHNICAL VEGETATION STANDARDS

Establishing Smart City Technical Standards and Guidance: A Way Forward

Solving technical problems with complex systems and integrating the many technologies employed in these multifaceted structures has been a recurring theme in Smart Cities research. This paper presents an analysis of the reason this problem has been so well explored but persists with no solution widely available. The problem is viewed as a combination of Smart City needs, governance, and increas...

Establishing Standards for Business Components

INTRODUCTION The field of business applic tions encompassing software for production planning or order management is dominated by some big vendors offering large standardized off-the-shelf application systems, e.g. SAP R/3, BAAN IV, or Oracle Applications. Despite all advantages of selling and buying these large integrated application systems, there are two major shortcomings: Usually only larg...

Technical Basis for Establishing Sediment

Abstnn-The purpose of t h ~ s review paper is to presenl the technical basis for es(abiishing srdiment quality sntaia using equilibrium partitioning (EqPJ. Equilibrium panitioning IS chosen because it addresses th? two principal technical issues that must be resolred: the varying bioavailability of chemicals in sediments and the choice of rhc appropriate b~ological effects conetooation. The dat...

Establishing Passing Standards

A framework for establishing the technical efficiency of Electricity Distribution Counties (EDCs) using Data Envelopment Analysis

European Energy market liberalization has entailed the restructuring of electricity power markets through the unbundling of electricity generation, transmission and distribution, supply activities and introducing competition into electricity generation. Under these new electricity market regimes, it is important to have an evaluation tool that is capable of examining the impacts of these market...