CO2 reduction costs and benefits in transport: socio-technical scenarios

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Reduction of CO2 Emission and Production Costs by Using Pozzolans in Lamerd Cement Factory

Two major concerns for cement factories are environmental aspects and production costs. The number of cement factories is increasing in Iran which from an environmental point of view is not favorable. Different pozzolans such as brick, potted clay, volcanic rocks, sedimentary rocks and rice bran were used in the cement produced by Lamerd factory in the south of Iran. Among these additives, ...

Modeling Socio-Technical Processes in e-Commerce Scenarios

We consider socio-technical processes, i.e. processes where machines as well as humans participate. Typical examples occur in sales processes in e-commerce. Three modeling tasks are selected: Modeling user preferences and utilities, modeling evaluations and modeling influence factors. A central concept representing knowledge is the notion of similarity. The major technique discussed is machine ...

Service scenarios - A socio-technical approach to business service modeling

The paper presents and discusses the notion of service scenarios. A service is work done by a service executor in interaction with a service consumer. A service scenario is a model of a service system and the roles that are played by the actors that participate and interact during the execution of a service. The model represents the roles and the interactions between the participants. Service s...

Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage and Transport Costs Non-technical Summary: Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage and Transport Costs

The real costs of trade – the transport and other costs of doing business internationally – are important determinants of a country's ability to participate fully in the world economy. Remoteness and poor transport and communications infrastructure isolate countries, inhibiting their participation in global production networks. Recent liberalizations have reduced artificial trade barriers, and ...