Agroecosystem Service Capacity Index – A methodological approach

Service archetypes, a methodological consideration

In practice based research, especially when working with non-research organisations, sometimes researchers face challenges related to the willingness of participants to openly share experiences outside the realms of the project. As a consequence there are methodological challenges with showing results, and working with knowledge verification. In this paper we suggest that some of these obstacle...

Methodological Review for Capacity and Punctuality Assessment Procedures

Climate change, congestion, safety, energy consumption and pollution are among the major issues that the European :::union::: and the wider world are facing nowadays. The European Commission is working towards the creation of a Single European Railway Area, encouraging a modal shift towards rail (mainly from road) in order to achieve a more competitive and sustainable European transport syst...

Changes in a Service Oriented Enterprise: A Game Theory Approach

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) are subject to constant change and variation. In this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. Once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. We construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

Designing Product/Service Systems: A Methodological Exploration

A Multi-Agent Methodological Approach

We are located in the context of the industrial system simulation, which are complex and distributed in operational, informational and decisional terms. In this chapter, we present the problems and a methodological solution. This methodology is based on the systemic approach and on multi-agent systems. It allows the modelling of distributed industrial systems such as enterprise consortiums. Mor...