We introduce the notion of an actor eco-system a framework that addresses the design-time requirements of building multi-actor (multi-agent) systems such as supply chains, business networks, virtual organizations etc. We describe how semantic annotation of abstract models of actor ecosystems can be used to derive executable process models that realize such systems. We outline a potentially powe...

The resilience, ecological function and quality of both agricultural and natural systems were evaluated in the mountainous region of the Atlantic Rain Forest of Rio de Janeiro through Rapid Assessment Methods. For this goal new indicators were proposed, such as eco-volume, eco-height, bio-volume, volume efficiency, and resilience index. The following agricultural and natural systems have been c...

We i n vestigate the generative capacity of the so-called conditional tabled eco-grammar systems CTEG. They are a variant of eco-grammar systems, generative mechanisms recently introduced as models of the interplay b e t ween environment and agents in ecosystems. In particular, we compare the power of CTEG systems with that of programmed and of random context T0L systems and with that of ET0L s...

Due to increasing solid waste generation and their significant impacts on human health, environmental assessment of the management and disposal methods become more and more important. There are various disposal methods which are the combinations that originate from a wide range of solid waste management systems. In this study, municipal waste of Tehran (which totals to 7507.5 tons/day) is asses...

Engineering Change Order or ECO phase is always challenging for any family of chip design. High Performance Microprocessors are largest and most complex overall design within Semiconductor Industry as a whole. To add further, there are additional design and methodology challenge related to bleeding edge of process nodes. Hence, current and future microprocessor design requires a set of well pla...

We describe software to facilitate systematic reviews in environmental science. Eco Evidence allows reviewers to draw strong conclusions from a collection of individually-weak studies. It consists of two components. An online database stores and shares the atomized findings of previously-published research. A desktop analysis tool synthesizes this evidence to test causeeeffect hypotheses. The s...

Developing reliable and eco-friendly processes for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles is an essential step in the field of application of nanotechnology .Using natural factories such as biological systems is a way of developing such processes. Nowadays, the synthesis of silver nanoparticles is very common due to its numerous applications in different fields. The synthesis of these nanopart...

Eco-driving is an initiative driving behavior which aims to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from automobiles. Recently, it has attracted increasing interests and has been adopted by many drivers in Australia. Although many of the studies have revealed considerable benefits in terms of fuel consumption and emissions after utilising eco-driving, most of the literature investigated eco-drivi...

Interactions between natural selection and environmental change are well recognized and sit at the core of ecology and evolutionary biology. Reciprocal interactions between ecology and evolution, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, are less well studied, even though they may be critical for understanding the evolution of biological diversity, the structure of communities and the function of ecosystems....

Eco-P colonies are constructed as natural extension of P colonies with dynamical evolution of environment. P colonies are one of the kind of computational models based on independent autonomous agents represented by membrane systems working and evolving in a shared environment. These acts are based on the set of program associated with every agent. There are two types of agents in eco-P colonie...