The ongoing energy transition toward more sustainable systems implies a change in the values for which such are designed. however is not just about sustainability but also like security and affordability, we witness emergence of new justice democracy. How can understand value changes how or should they affect design future systems? This introduction to special section on introduces main themes ...

in this paper, we focus on a continuously deteriorating critical equipment which its failure cannot be measured by cost criterion. for these types of systems like military systems, nuclear systems, etc it is extremely important to avoid failure during the actual operation of the system. in this paper we propose an approach which constrains failure probability to a pre-specified value. this valu...

Saffron is one of the highly exotic spices known for traditional values and antiquity. It is used for home décor besides serving as a colorant flavor and is widely known for medicinal value. Over the last few years, saffron has garnered a lot of interest due to its anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic, anti-oxidant and immunomodulatory properties. Integration of systems biology approaches with wide appl...

The relationship between organisations' value system and their human resource management (HRM) system is investigated surveying human resource managers in 443 Australian organisations. Organisations were grouped into four main value types Elite, Leadership, Meritocratic and Collegial, according to a typological theory of organisational values (Kabanoff, 1991a,b, 1993). MANOVA and discriminant a...

OVERVIEW In a market setting, a business undertakes many operations to provide product (good or service) to its customers. Each of these operations receives an input (raw material, labour, throughput) and transforms it into an output. An operation is effective if it creates an output having more value than its input. The value added by each operation justifies its raison être in the business. T...

Characterizing human values is a topic deeply interwoven with the sciences, humanities, political philosophy, art, and many other human endeavors. In recent years, a number of thinkers have argued that accelerating trends in computer science, cognitive science, and related disciplines foreshadow the creation of intelligent machines which meet and ultimately surpass the cognitive abilities of hu...