A green building involves complex system engineering including energy efficiency and energy utilization, water-saving and water utilization, material-saving and material utilization, and land-saving and indoor environment quality and operation management. In order to solve problems of subjectivity, uncertainty and impossibility of quantitative analysis when evaluating green building, this study...

This paper argues that any successful project in economics will need to adopt a philosophical orientation that is rather different to that of the current mathematical mainstream. In particular, it argues that explicit, systematic and sustained ontological analysis is required. The possibilities and limits of ontology are elaborated. The paper also sets out the explicit ontological conception th...

In the Funding section, a grant number from the funder Next-Generation Bio Green 21 Program is listed incorrectly. The correct grant numbers are: SSAC, PJ011181. The complete, correct funding statement is: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through grants funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP) (NRF2009-C1AAA001-2009-0093491), by t...

In this paper we examine an initial step towards Green Business Process Management. We give insights from a research project with the goal of monitoring and redesigning business processes in an environmentally sustainable manner. Using literature analysis and three case studies we derive suitable languages and software for business process modeling. In addition, we show business processes that ...

the construction of underground tunnel plays a more and more important role in the development of big cities. one of the most important problems caused by the construction of the tunnel is that underground excavation will cause large settlement of the ground and buildings. previous studied showed the difference between numerical and experimental results. in this study the case study of niyayesh...

For farmers, the more fragile state of ecology becomes, their awareness need for environmental protection grows. China’s Grain Green Project (G.G.P.) policy returning farmland to forests and grassland, as an external shock environment, has sparked people’s ecological aspirations. Many people have noticed phenomenon ecosystem degradation overlapping poverty. Analyzing income changes brought abou...