Water: A Fundamental Resource for Ensuring Sustainability

Ensuring the long-term sustainability of fishery

1. Japan is an island with approximately 70% of land covered by mountain forests and where arable space is limited. Fishing communities are located in all coastal areas nationwide. Food resources from the ocean have historically played a significant role in the Japanese diet. Even today, around 40% of protein consumed by Japanese people comes from sea food. 2 Ensuring the long-term sustainabili...

Ensuring sustainability of web services dependent processes

High dependence on web services and service-oriented architecture affects not only business solutions, but also scientific research. Web services may be delivered by third parties, and thus are candidates for outsourcing. However, they represent a source of risks, which can jeopardise the robustness of processes. Hence, there is a need for actions which can contribute to the mitigation of possi...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Ensuring Multimedia QoS Over Scarce Resource Networks

A serious bottleneck in multimedia E-learning is the non-availability of required bandwidth. While much research has been done on Multimedia compression and network resource optimization, multimedia delivery is still a big concern especially for scarce resource networks. The virtues of network aware video coding and application of domain specific compression techniques have not yet been fully e...

A new approach for solving fuzzy multi-objective quadratic programming of water resource allocation problem