ECO-System: Embracing the Change in Placement

Embracing change.

Embracing Change with Extreme Programming

0018-9162/99/$10.00 © 1999 IEEE 70 Computer I n the beginning was the waterfall (Figure 1a). We would get the users to tell us once and for all exactly what they wanted. We would design the system that would deliver those features. We would code it. We would test to make sure the features were delivered. All would be well. All was not well. The users didn’t tell us once and for all exactly what...

Eco-efficiency and eco-productivity change over time in a multisectoral economic system

In the literature two approaches of productivity analyses can be found, namely the neoclassical approach and the frontier approach. Neoclassical analysis weights inputs by value shares, a procedure that requires data on factor input shares or prices. This approach imputes productivity growth to factors, but cannot distinguish a movement towards the efficiency frontier and a movement of the latt...

Embracing Change: Financial Informatics and Risk Analytics

We present an enterprise design pattern for managing metadata in support of financial analytics packages. The complexity of financial modeling typically requires deployment of multiple financial analytics packages, drawing data from multiple source systems. Business domain experts are typically needed to understand the data requirements of these packages. Financial product innovation and resear...

The Evo-Eco Approach to Behaviour Change

We introduce a new approach to behaviour change called ‘Evo-Eco’ because of its intellectual roots in evolutionary biology and ecological psychology. This approach is based on the inference that brains evolved to provide adaptive behavioural responses to rapidly changing or complex environmental conditions. From this foundation, we develop a model with three basic components: the environment, w...