Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions). Pri...

Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions). Pri...

According to fear-avoidance models, a catastrophic interpretation of a painful experience may give rise to pain-related fear and avoidance, leading to the development and maintenance of chronic pain problems in the long term. However, little is known about how exactly motivation and goal prioritization play a role in the development of pain-related fear. This study investigates these processes ...

Optimization problems in IMRT inverse planning are inherently multicriterial since they involve multiple planning goals for targets and their neighbouring critical tissue structures. Clinical decisions are generally required, based on tradeoffs among these goals. Since the tradeoffs cannot be quantitatively determined prior to optimization, the decision-making process is usually indirect and it...

The HEART tool (Help for Ensuring Acceptable Response Times) has been developed by the IT Research and Innovations department of Dresdner Bank for the computation of viable message prioritization in message-based eservices, such as stock brokerage services where service requests of different customer classes with class-specific performance goals have to be served by a server. HEART determines v...

Investor decision making has always been affected by two factors: risk and returns. Considering risk, the investor expects an acceptable return on the investment decision horizon. Accordingly, defining goals and constraints for each investor can have unique prioritization. This paper develops several approaches to multi criteria portfolio optimization. The maximization of stock returns, the pow...

One of the most common problems within a risk driven software collaborative development effort is prioritizing items such as requirements, goals, and stakeholder win-conditions. Requirements have proven particularly sticky in this as it is often the case that they can not be fully implemented when time and resources are limited introducing additional risk to the project. A practical approach to...

Prioritization of requirements towards finalizing the intended requirement set has considerable received attention from academicians and practitioners. Articles proposing requirement prioritization artifacts have focused mostly on describing these artifacts. There is no attempt to uncover the principles that guide the design of these artifacts towards holistic understanding of the prioritizatio...

The context for watershed analysis Lands to be analyzed Prioritization of watersheds for analysis Relation of the interagency approach to other watershed analysis methods The concept of interagency watershed analysis Goals of watershed analysis Watersheds as analysis units The issue focus Time required for a watershed analysis Consistency and standardization Interagency participation Federal wa...

Traffic signals are a very important instrument to manage urban traffic. When designing traffic signal programs, many different goals and road user needs have to be considered. While traffic engineers must ensure the technical planning, implementation and operation of traffic signals, their work must be supported by a clear policy. One of the major questions to be answered within such traffic s...