Building Markets for Energy Saving Equipment and Modelling Subsidy Strategies in Tourism Dependent Economies

Knowledge Building for Home Energy Saving Domain

The paper proposes an approach to building semantic knowledge for home energy saving, which appears to be main Internet of Things application. Description logic is used to formalize knowledge base representation. Service modelling is considered as a kind of knowledge management which allows reasoning and resolving service interaction. Keywords— Internet of Things, Home automation, Semantic Info...

Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and is a source of jobs across national and regional economies. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism development has become a major activity within the tourism and sustainable development communities. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the contribution of system dynamics for analysing policies that can n...

energy saving in tehran international flower exhibition’s building

the municipality of tehran is intending to construct a permanent international flower exhibition. the activities for construction began in the year 2006. the exhibition has three distinct areas namely “northern area”,”southern area” and “central area”. in northern and southern area the flowers are supposed to be preserved and in central area, they will be sold out. in the present st...

An Energy Saving Valve for Refrigeration Equipment Mounting Rotary Compressor

Volatility in International Tourism Demand for Small Island Tourism Economies

Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated even...