operator's role in industrial control centers takes place in time, which is one of the most important determinants of whether an expected action is going to be successful or not. in certain situations, due to the complex nature of the work, the existing interfaces and already prepared procedures do not meet the dynamic requirements of operator's cognitive demands, making the control tasks unnec...

Global food security requires eco-efficient agriculture to produce the required food and fiber products concomitant with ecologically efficient use of resources. This eco-efficiency concept is used to diagnose the state of agricultural production in China (irrigated wheat-maize double-cropping systems), Zimbabwe (rainfed maize systems), and Australia (rainfed wheat systems). More than 3,000 sur...

The notion of teams in grammar systems is applied to a restriction of eco-grammar systems, called simple eco-grammar systems. These systems were introduced by motivations coming from Artiicial Life and (thus) consist of an environment in the form of a Lindenmayer system and agents working on this environment by context-free productions. Several diierent ways of forming teams of agents, with dii...

Research on support for eco-innovation often focuses the activities of individual entities such as universities, incubators, and business development organizations. This focus does not give a holistic view available eco-innovative companies. Thus, we used social network analysis, to analyse intermediation in regional system eco-innovation. Our findings reveal with both central peripheral actors...

BACKGROUND Evolutionary change in individual species has been hypothesized to have far-reaching consequences for entire ecological communities, and such coupling of ecological and evolutionary dynamics ("eco-evolutionary dynamics") has been demonstrated for a variety systems. However, the general importance of evolutionary dynamics for ecological dynamics remains unclear. Here, we investigate h...

Introduction The complexity and diversity of cars means that conventional eco-ratings such as those used for white goods, present insurmountable difficulties. A number of environmental ratings systems for cars are currently in use, notably in Germany (VCD Auto Umweltliste; Auto Motor u Sport), Sweden (Rototest), but also in the UK (Environmental Transport Association Car Buyers Guide). These ar...

Increasing concerns about the changing environment and the emergence of pathogens that cross species boundaries have added to the urgency of understanding the dynamics of complex ecological systems infected by pathogens. Of particular interest is the often counterintuitive way in which infection and predation interact and the consequent difficulties in designing control strategies to manage the...