Based on Complex Systems Theory, Net centric operations for the US Department of Defense (DoD) can be considered a complex adaptive system, representing a shift from traditional system-based interactions toward information-based web service transactions requiring highly secure, reliable, and dynamic "on-demand" information capabilities. This net centric environment must accommodate unpredictabl...

N ew and planned Department of Defense (DoD) combat systems are inherently network-centric, distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems of systems. Combat systems have historically been developed via multiple technology bases, where each system brings its own networks, computers, displays, software, and people to maintain and operate it. Unfortunately, not only are these stove-pipe archite...

This article discusses how the core concepts of service-dominant logic—service-for-service exchange, value co-creation, value propositions, resource integration, and highly collaborative relationships—point to a generic actor conceptualization in which all actors engaged in exchange (e.g., firms, customers, etc.) are viewed as service providing, value-creating enterprises. In other words, all s...

There is growing recognition that a synergistic integration of data, knowledge, and methods from a variety of water-allied disciplines is needed to study, engineer for, or manage water resources. This integrated approach is necessary if we are to consider all components of the water cycle and their complex interactions with ecological, biogeochemical and human systems at a watershed-scale. The ...

The concept of eco-efficiency is here presented as a valuable contribution to a sustainable regional development in the European Union. Eco-efficiency and dematerialization strategies are more and more established at the business level where practical and easily understandable methods and management tools have been developed and applied in the past years and decades. On this (micro) level, case...