Low-Carbon Technologies (LCTs) play an important role in achieving China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) targets. According to the result of our scenario analysis, if advanced energy-saving technology, renewable energy, and other measures are promoted and extensively applied, China’s carbon emission will achieve its peaking at around 2027. With proper energy policies, Chin...

This research-in-progress presents a framework, grounded in Coordination theory (Thompson, 1967), to examine coordination as a complementary investment to the business value of Supply Chain Management (SCM) environments. Given that one of the objectives of a SCM is to reduce transaction costs, including coordination costs, this framework proposes that for supply chains to prosper, the technolog...

The deployment of new value-added mobile services has had mixed results in terms of adoption rates and revenue generation, despite the fact that mobile operators rely on such services for future growth, in view of saturated markets for the basic voice service. The paper suggests that innovation and growth in the mobile services industry largely depends on the extent to which structural conditio...

With the emergence of Web 2.0, people are able to share their thoughts and photos with their friends and strangers. Yet, they also risk invasion of their privacy. Information privacy has therefore become an important issue in the information age. In this research, we focus on the influence of anger on immoral judgment of privacy invasion in cyberspace. Specifically, two scenarios, nonviolent an...

In this paper, we present a preliminary study dealing with the importance of correct modeling of connective tissues such as ligaments in laparoscopic liver surgery simulation. We show that the model of these tissues has a significant impact on the overall results of the simulation. This is demonstrated numerically using two different scenarios from the laparoscopic liver surgery, both resulting...

A composite model was developed for water and mineral relations of greenhouse tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cultivated in semi-closed or open soilless (rockwool) culture. The model simulated on a daily basis: (i) the evolution of crop leaf area index and water uptake using empirical equations; and (ii) the variations of ion concentrations and electrical conductivity (EC) in the recirculating...

This paper provides a general overview of creating scenarios for energy policies using Bayesian Network (BN) models. BN is a useful tool to analyze the complex structures, which allows observation of the current structure and basic consequences of any strategic change. This research will propose a decision model that will support the researchers in forecasting and scenario analysis fields. The ...

In the context of sustainable urban development, the application of selected indicators integrated with scenario simulation and analysis can contribute to evidence-based decision making. This paper discusses the application of land use modelling and opportunity mapping approaches to evaluate regional development scenarios for the Greater Dublin Region in the period to 2026 evolving from researc...

A method for scenario based requirements engineering is described. The method uses two types of scenario, structure models of the system context and scripts of system usage. A modelling language is reported for describing scenarios, and heuristics are given to cross check dependencies between scenario models and the requirements specification. Heuristics are grouped into several analytic treatm...