This paper argues that the conventional economic approach to housing is subject to a plethora of weaknesses that renders it, at best, a rather limited basis for understanding housing markets. Conventional analyses assume market efficiency and clearing, and ‘rational’ individuals. These core assumptions present an unnecessarily restrictive view of human behaviour and the economic process. By emp...

a new way of thinking is influencing the behaviour of both consumers and firms: any tourism activity has a sizeable environmental impact and the roots of environmental problems in this industry lie inhuman behaviour. accordingly, in recent years tourists have been taking into account the environment as afactor in their purchasing decisions and firms are using this factor in their competitive po...

a new way of thinking is influencing the behaviour of both consumers and firms: any tourism activity has a sizeable environmental impact and the roots of environmental problems in this industry lie inhuman behaviour. accordingly, in recent years tourists have been taking into account the environment as afactor in their purchasing decisions and firms are using this factor in their competitive po...

generality. Even though the reductionist assumptions of economic models are certainly imperfect as descriptions of real migration behaviour, refinements of the 532 D. Radu

This paper presents how the function–behavior–structure (FBS) ontology can be used to represent processes despite its original focus on representing objects. The FBS ontology provides a uniform framework for classifying processes, and includes higher level semantics in their representation. We show that this ontology supports a situated view of processes based on a model of three interacting wo...