column Free AccessTHINKING ISSUESLoosening ties: permanently virtual teams and the melting iceberg of relationship Share on Author: Tony Clear Auckland University Technology TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM InroadsVolume 12Issue 3September 2021 pp 6–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3479419Online:14 August 2021Publication History 0citation156DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Download...

Abstract Agroforestry systems (AFS) upscaling has the potential to integrate sustainability and resilience objectives into agriculture. However, this is a daunting task requiring multi-actor collaboration across public private sectors at multiple governance levels, coupled with innovative approaches jointly managing AFS knowledge. Understanding such interactions from network perspective may hel...

We are presenting in this volume selected, peer-reviewed, short papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS’14) which took place in Djerba, Tunisia, during October 8-11, 2014.

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execution of every planned program in cities has different process. process involves inhabitant's preferences, capacity of area or neighborhood, scale of people participation. after these strategies plans will prepared and executors apply them. planning in city scale considering potentials of area and participation of people is very important stage to eliminate undesirable appearances of c...

introduction cities and neighborhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades and have lost their quality in many aspects. due to poor planning and governance at the regional and urban design on physical function, rapid growth of large-scale migrations and inefficient policies and procedures in dealing with urban neighborhoods neglected urban neighborhoods as w...

Widely used information diffusion models such as Independent Cascade Model, Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) and others fail to acknowledge that information is constantly subject to modification. Some aspects of information diffusion are best explained by network structural characteristics while in some cases strong influence comes from individual decisions. We introduce reinvention, the ab...