Importance of this research Almost any process that undertakes actions relies on situational awareness. Such awareness can be supported by using sensors. In dynamic situations the observation task can get complicated and sensors may need to be reconfigured in real time. Choosing the right configuration and allocating the available resources, such as time, of the sensors is very challenging. Thi...

In developed countries, businesses are adopting environmentally friendly management practices, possibly because they are proving profitable. However, the benefits of a corporate environmental strategy are less clear in developing and transition economies, where environmental regulations are poorly enforced and social pressures are weak. Given this lack of clarity, understanding the causes and c...

Inviting the public to be part of the decision making process in environmental management has been a major objective in European and American environmental policy arenas. As one prominent example, the US-National Academy of Sciences encourages environmental protection agencies to foster citizen participation and public involvement for making environmental policy making and risk management more ...

analysis on both sides of the management/ research fence in a federal land-management agency in areas of wildlife and ecosystem conservation (e.g., Marcot et al. 2006). I can attest that this classical risk-management framework, as applied to public land and natural resource management, just doesn’t work as portrayed in the textbooks. Here’s why, and here are some practical opportunities for mo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the competitive strategy emphasised by SMEs in order to cope with global competition. Design/methodology/approach – A self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to 300 potential respondents in the F&B and T&C manufacturing industries throughout Malaysia. A total of 212 respondents or small and medium enterprises returned the completed que...

IntroductIon A large portion of the knowledge of most organizations is contained in electronic documents. For users to get pertinent information from the accumulation of stored documents, they need effective document retrieval systems. Unfortunately, electronic document management has fallen into the same trap that electronic data processing fell into: simply automating what previously was done...