Using a system dynamics approach, an integrated water resources system model is developed for scenario analysis of the Saskatchewan portion of the transboundary Saskatchewan River Basin in western Canada. The water resources component is constructed by emulating an existing Water Resources Management Model. Enhancements include an irrigation sub-model to estimate dynamic irrigation demand, incl...

In the existing DEA models, we have a centralized decision maker (DM) who supervises all the operating units. In this paper, we solve a problem in which the centralized DM encounters limited or constant resources for total inputs or total outputs. We establish a DEA target model that solves and deals with such a situation. In our model, we consider the decrease of total input consumption and th...

Technology foresight has attracted increasingly more attention from the government and academia as well as industries since 1990s. However, the impact of technology foresight on national strategic decision-making varies from countries to countries. This paper tries to introduce the technology foresight towards 2020 in China which conducted by the research group in the Chinese Academy of Science...

Frameworks for IT evaluation have been extensively discussed in the past. Until recently, research had concentrated on advancing classic approaches such as monetary cost/benefit considerations or strategic management matrices, but that constriction to known methods has considerably softened. More researchers now use economic models in IT evaluation. Their contributions open exciting new perspec...

Municipal water systems provide crucial services for human well-being, and will undergo a major transformation this century following global technological, socioeconomic and environmental changes. Future demand scenarios integrating these drivers over multidecadal planning horizons are needed to develop effective adaptation strategy. This paper presents a new long-term scenario modeling framewo...

It was recently observed in [1], that in index coding, learning the coding matrix used by the server can pose privacy concerns: curious clients can extract information about the requests and side information of other clients. One approach to mitigate such concerns is the use of k-limited-access schemes [1], that restrict each client to learn only part of the index coding matrix, and in particul...

A gap exists between the growing prevalence of peripheral displays and appropriate methods for their evaluation. Mankoff et al. [11] present one attempt to bridge this gap by adapting Nielsen’s Heuristic evaluation to the defining characteristics and goals of peripheral displays. In this paper, we present a complementary approach that depends on active user participation and emphasizes the expe...

Many countries in West Asia, defined in this study as the Arabic-speaking countries of the Arabian Peninsula plus Turkey and Iran, have enacted environmental conservation laws but regional underlying drivers of environment change, such as rising incomes and fast-growing populations, continue to put pressure on remaining wetlands. This paper aims to inform conservation efforts by presenting the ...

edCity will facilitate learning anywhere, anytime, for anyone for users of all ages both in traditionally taught and in pedagogically innovative courses by fusing physical and virtual representations of real cities in order to provide a new learning framework. The edCity project will be scenario-driven with major conceptual inputs to the design generated by highly interactive scenario-building ...