As part of the construction of a Europe-wide Digital Business Ecosystem, in this paper we begin to ask several questions about how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their business processes, and the services they rely upon can be modelled. For the purposes of this paper we focus more on the subset of SMEs that can be loosely described as software producers. The Digital Business Ecosyst...

The definition and development of learning ecosystems is a complex process with a wide range of requirements. Although two different institutions or companies share the same problems and goals regarding their learning and training processes, the learning ecosystems to support them are different. The components of the ecosystem, including the human factor as a key element, and the relationships ...

Generally, ERA, like most risk assessment methodology, is founded on the need to address uncertainty in the decision process. Management decisions regarding the aquatic ecosystem have to deal with both epistemic (knowledge base) uncertainty and innate variability pertaining to both the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem. Conventional ERA methodology depends on a statistical approach...

We propose a new conceptual model for understanding technological evolution that highlights dynamic and highly interdependent relationships among multiple technologies. We propose that, when technology evolution is discussed, a single technology cannot be considered in isolation. Instead, we argue that technology evolution is best viewed as a dynamic system that includes the totality of interre...

Keystone players, the company that occupies the crucial hubs, need to nurture its inhabitants to keep the ecosystem active. M any modern ecosystems have communities of practice where knowledge is transferred by collaborative problem solving, sharing of ideas, software components or configurations. In recent years a widely spread medium for communities of practice is the use of online discussion...

This study is centred on the premise that knowledge is personalised information which can be enriched through the process of learning, then shared and applied to practical situations to attain value. To highlight the complex nature of knowledge management (KM) as a set of practices aimed to enhance collaboration, the concept of a Collaborative Learning Ecosystem (CLES) is presented as holistic ...

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, GOVERNANCE, AND STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION: AN INTRODUCTION The ecosystem services approach has gained popularity, and novel incentive-based ecosystem conservation strategies are increasingly being used. This calls for the reassessment and transformation of conceptual-theoretical, natural resource management, and governance approaches to conservation. In the past, conservatio...

System approaches to elucidate ecosystem functioning constitute an emerging area of research within microbial ecology. Such approaches aim at investigating all levels of biological information (DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites) to capture the functional interactions occurring in a given ecosystem and track down characteristics that could not be accessed by the study of isolated components. In...

There is little published information on "nearnatural" ecosystems and their restoration. Ecosystem restoration involves the setting of a date to indicate a restoration point (e.g., 1778 for the National Park Service in Hawaii) and presupposes some knowledge of ecosystem status at the target date and time. In Hawaii, knowledge of past conditions is usually precluded by the rapidity and magnitude...

[1] We analyzed measurements of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) over 15 European forests (the EuroFlux data set) to investigate which climate and forest characteristics explain temporal and intersite variations in NEE and its components, gross primary production (GPP) and respiration (R). Informed stepwise regression was used to derive a parameter-efficient, empirical model that was consist...