The internal audit function (IAF) importance has been highlighted by legislative and professional responses to various financial scandals. On the other hand, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have institutional logics in controlling business process that pressure the IAF to change. Based on the institutional theory a conceptual framework is formulated to explore the IAF change as a res...

The complexity of planning requirements and aims for energy-efficient buildings has significantly risen, however the buildings are mostly planned with traditional planning methods based on sequential planning model. The main hypothesis states that successful energy-efficient and even -producing buildings can be realized only through more integrated, interdisciplinary and life-cycle oriented des...

Digital visualization tools are widely used in planning nowadays around the world by various contributors to the field and in different planning scales. Visualization facilitates perception of underlying thoughts and objectives of planning alternatives and consequently assists with communication of the plan to different stakeholders. This, in turn, enables them to actively and efficiently parti...

Digital visualization tools are widely used in planning nowadays around the world by various contributors to the field and in different planning scales. Visualization facilitates perception of underlying thoughts and objectives of planning alternatives and consequently assists with communication of the plan to different stakeholders. This, in turn, enables them to actively and efficiently parti...

Citation: Tiller RG, Svalestuen Y, Öztürk P and Tidemann A (2015) Simulating Stakeholder Behavior in a Marine Setting: Integrated Coastal Zone Planning and the Influential Power of Selected Stakeholders in Frøya, Norway. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:90. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00090 Simulating Stakeholder Behavior in a Marine Setting: Integrated Coastal Zone Planning and the Influential Power of Selected...

This position paper advocates a simple fluent representation of intention, knowledge, belief and memory that due to its grounded and integrated nature allows the use of constraint based planning algorithms for all aspects of agent reasoning and execution, including planning under uncertainty and integrated diagnosis and repair.

In today’s competitive global market place, agility has become a survival factor for many manufacturers. A key measurement of manufacturing agility is the time it takes an organization to respond to market changes. The production management system used by most manufacturers today has disconnected planning and execution processes. This situation often hinders the manufacturer to fully explore ma...

Personalized study planning framework consists four graphs for personalized study planning: a graph representing a conceptual structure of study program; a graph representing study course; a graph visualizing each topic of study course using concept map; a graph representing learning objects. This paper describes third graph – a graph for study course topic structure displaying and knowledge as...