Periodically, new major forces dramatically reshape the business world. Just as globalisation, the information technology revolution and the knowledge economy have been doing for the past two decades. In the early part of this twenty-first century, the most important pressures facing businesses worldwide, especially those in the developed world, is arguably the need for integrating sustainabili...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how both the amount and type of coursework impact students’ conceptualizations of sustainability. Previous research demonstrates that academic coursework influences students’ environmental attitudes, yet few studies have examined the impact of coursework on how students conceptualize “sustainability”. Design/methodology/approach – Data are examined from the ...

We had found functions can be used to fix bits [2] by given differences. We use these functions build a message expansion function. In the message expansion function, there are some bits include message bits and incremental bits produced from message bits, these bits will be used as parameter of date-depend function. This message expansion function will fixed at lease n × 5 . 5 bits with given ...

In many fields in computational sustainability, applications of POMDPs are inhibited by the complexity of the optimal solution. One way of delivering simple solutions is to represent the policy with a small number of α-vectors. We would like to find the best possible policy that can be expressed using a fixed number N of α-vectors. We call this the N-POMDP problem. The existing solver α-min app...

Exploiting parallelism is a key strategy for speeding up computation. However, on hard combinatorial problems, such a strategy has been surprisingly challenging due to the intricate variable interactions. In this paper we introduce a novel way in which parallelism can be used to exploit hidden structure of hard combinatorial problems, orthogonal to divide-andconquer and portfolio approaches. We...

Cosponsors Artificial Intelligence Journal Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación National Science Foundation (NSF) Universitat de Barcelona Knowtion TCA Software Solutions Yahoo! Labs Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGUAR) Agreement Technologies Project Alear Project Google NICTA Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) iSOCO ECCAI ESADE Business School IBM Research M...

Solving sequential decision making problems in computational sustainability often requires simulators of ecology, weather, fire, or other complex phenomena. The extreme computational expense of these simulators stymie optimization and interactive visualization of decision rules (policies). This work presents our results in creating an interactive visualization for a wildfire management problem ...

Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific and an ethical issue. If sustainability is defined as “meeting human needs in a socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most of the words in its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical normative terms such as “human needs” and “ecosystem healt...

Sustainability in agriculture has two dimensions: a. Natural Resource Sustainability b. Socioeconomic Sustainability Natural Resource Sustainability is based on the stability of the ecology of agricultural ecosystems based on interactions between soil, water and biodiversity. This Sustainability measures the wealth of' nature's economy' and the foundation of all other economies. Nature's econom...

The term fiscal sustainability has many definitions, though it almost always refers to the fiscal policies of a government or the public sector. One concept of sustainability relates to solvency, the ability of the government to service its debt obligations in perpetuity without explicit default. Rarely does fiscal sustainability analysis reach the conclusion that a government is insolvent unle...