A recent trend in network systems is the advanced technology to dynamically handle changes in the system. An important basis relies on the integration of capability and status representation and their semantic descriptions, which is currently not expressive enough. In this paper, we propose a Unified Capability and Status Representation Framework (UniCS) for handling several aspects related to ...

The limits of the utilitarian approach have led to a search for different notions of welfare. The income approach to well-being, in fact, doesn’t account for the diversity in human beings and for the heterogeneities of contingent circumstances. Amartya Sen, looking for broader notions of well-being, has developed an approach focused on the freedom of individuals to pursue their own project of l...

Firms can enjoy competitive advantage by developing a capability to manage alliances more successfully than others. A knowledge-based approach suggests that organizational processes facilitating the accumulation, codification and sharing of alliance know-how embedded in the firm’s alliance experience, are central to its alliance capability and success.

The current energy transition focuses on decarbonisation through the use of renewable sources, coupled with improvements in efficiency by means technological innovations. However, there is also a clear call for realizing just transition. implementation smart technology-led transitions and low-carbon system innovations increasingly urged to become more people-centred taking poverty other justice...

in order to determine optimum landuses (in accordance with natural capability) and improve the current land management, landuse planning process was applied by using gis. within the framework of system analysis approach basic ecological and socio-economic , data were mapped. the mapped data were digitized and imported to idrisi and arc/info to build a database ,along with other descriptive data...

Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is a new form of command and control and this paper asks whether it is an end product or an initial condition? The traditional topdown approach to design in which ‘we, the designers, are designing something for you, the users’, tacitly assumes the former. Yet experience in the field amply demonstrates the inevitability of human adaptability, something that the c...

This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical aspects of the capability approach, as developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others. The capability approach is a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment of individual well-being and social arrangeme...