Business activities within the organization are performed by a number of human or automated actors. For the organization to adapt to internal or external changes it must be able to understand how and why actors are related to and assigned to processes. This requires a consistent representation of the services required by the organization’s processes and those provided by its actors. This paper ...

This paper proposes and describes a conceptual tool, namely the Rehabilitation (Assistive) Technology (RT) product taxonomy, as a framework for analysing Rehabilitation Technology products and extracting demand determinants. The ultimate objective of this work is to provide demand and supply related actors with a meaningful tool for identifying and focusing on specific aspects, which may be dir...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of landowners and external actors through compensations. Theoretical assessments praise the advantages of PES over indirect approaches, but in the tropics PES application has remained incipient. Here I ai...

In this work we are interested in identifying clusters of "positional equivalent" actors, i.e. actors who play a similar role in a system. In particular, we analyze weighted bipartite networks that describes the relationships between actors on one side and features or traits on the other, together with the intensity level to which actors show their features. We develop a methodological approach...

Land use change is driven by multiple autonomous actors. They act and react according to their strategies and respond to the opportunities offered by their environment. How the locations will be transformed depends, therefore, not only on demand but also on the developers providing the building supply. To identify the developers and explore the interplay between different actors and its effects...

This paper proposes the impacts of event and event actor alignment in English and Bengali phrase based Statistical Machine Translation (PB-SMT) System. Initially, events and event actors are identified from English and Bengali parallel corpus. For events and event actor identification in English we proposed a hybrid technique and it was carried out within the TimeML framework. Events in Bengali...

I derive and estimate a model for cover price setting in print media markets where actors are faced by two interrelated demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women’s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used in the GMM estimation. Main findings are that my estimated marginals cost coincide well with those o...