8 AI MAGAZINE One of the central challenges in computational sustainability is how to allocate resources in order to optimize long-term objectives. An archetypal application is conservation planning: managers recommend patches of land in order to achieve long-term conservation of biodiversity. In this and similar applications, we typically have to make decisions over time: financial resources (...

In this paper we introduce a class of Markov decision processes that arise as a natural model for many renewable resource allocation problems. Upon extending results from the inventory control literature, we prove that they admit a closed form solution and we show how to exploit this structure to speed up its computation. We consider the application of the proposed framework to several problems...

— Road traffic is a problem which is increasing in cities with large population. Unrelated to this fact the number of portable and wearable devices has also been increasing throughout the population of most countries. With this advent, the capacity to monitor and register data about people habits and locations as well as more complex data such as intensity and strength of movements has created ...

Sustainability is a wide concept that contains other concepts such as social responsibility and has been investigated with concepts such as competition sustainability, reporting sustainability, and social sustainability. The present study aims to investigate the role of social interest rate risk management (SIRRM) in the relationship between sustainability performance and investment ef...

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...

Abstract The results of studying the number honey bees in colonies and determining evaluation age-stage specific survival rates bee have been presented. rate depends on egg-laying queen bee, period season, level development reaches a minimum all after main collection S = 0.3-0.5. In spring autumn periods, there is high negative correlation dependence ( r =−0.7÷(−0.9), between (number brood) sur...

Abstract: Explores the concept of sustainability and the derivation of sustainability indicators. Two general conceptions of sustainability; Criteria proposed for indicators; Indicators developed in the area of sustainability; Development of indicators in the national and international levels; Development of sustainability indicators in Scotland. INSETS: Frameworks for sustainability indicator ...