Organisations of tomorrow are likely to be places where leaders and staff have an agreed vision of a different kind of workplace and also possess knowledge and skills to achieve that vision. However, many external and internal influences facilitate and obstruct cultural change in organisations. The future culture of an organisation is influenced by the mindsets of present day staff. Scenario an...

This paper fits within the context of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its emission-immission based approach for river basin management. More particularly, it focuses on the sewer-wastewater treatment-river system. Using an integrated model of various system configurations of a real case study, a scenario analysis is performed by evaluating simulation results acc...

Building on existing work evaluating food-attribute labels, we use data collected in 2010 from a national web-based survey of 1,002 households to examine consumer inferences and valuations of food products promoted as “sustainably produced.” A best-worst scale framework was implemented to identify how consumers de ine “sustainably produced” and their preferences for each of the sustainable farm...

(1) Laboratory for Hydrogeology, Department of Geology-Geography, Faculty of Exact Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (2) Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary (3) Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Department of Georesources, Geotechnologies and Building Materials (GEOMAC), University of Liè...

∗ Work reported in this paper is partly supported by China National High Technology Research Programme (863 Programme) under grant 2002AA116070. Abstract Based on our previous work on the formal specification language SLABS as well as a methodology and modelling language for modelling and specifying multi-agent systems, we further investigate how diagrammatic models of multi-agent systems can b...

Participatory methods provide an increasingly accepted path to integrated assessment. This paper reflects on the role of two participatory modelling initiatives implemented in a highly conflictive setting: the Mancha Occidental aquifer, Spain. The methodologies are described within the context of the case study, examining their potential relevance to integrated assessment from a conceptual stan...

Nowadays standard technologies play important roles in enhancing sharability, reusability and interoperability of learning contents. However, there is a lack of pedagogical justification of the contents implemented with the standards. This paper discusses the standardcompliance of our ontology-based modeling framework and how the framework gives theoretical justification to standard-compliant l...