Recently, an increasing number of researchers have been focusing on working out realistic solutions to sustainability problems. As sustainability issues gain higher importance for organisations, the management of such decisions becomes critical. Knowledge representation is a fundamental issue of complex knowledge based systems. Many types of sustainability problems would benefit from models bas...

The word problem for categories with free products and coproducts (sums), ΣΠ-categories, is directly related to the problem of determining the equivalence of certain processes. Indeed, the maps in these categories may be directly interpreted as processes which communicate by two-way channels. The maps of an ΣΠ-category may also be viewed as a proof theory for a simple logic with a game theoreti...

Mapping is inherently a subjective and exclusionary practice as the cartographer decides which elements of the world are included and which can safely be ignored. Similarly, when an international relations theorist describes a new theory it is necessary to define the elements which are essential to understanding the complexities of an international political system, explain why other elements h...

We consider the action of mapping class groups, by preand postcomposition, on branched coverings, and encode them algebraically as mapping class bisets. We show how the mapping class biset of maps preserving a multicurve decomposes into mapping class bisets of smaller complexity, called small mapping class bisets. We phrase the decision problem of Thurston equivalence between branched self-cove...

This paper proposes an approach to automatically adapt game AI to the environment of the game (i.e., the socalled map). In the approach, a particular map is first analysed for specific features. Subsequently, an automatically established decision tree is applied to adapt the game AI according to the features of the map. Experiments that test our approach are performed in the RTS game Spring. Fr...

We show the convergence of an implicit mean value iteration when applied to uniformly pseudocontractive maps. Remarks about other implicit mean value iterations are given.

This document provides a brief update of the activities that have been recently completed for the purpose of developing measures to assess teamwork as part of ALL. It is intended to serve as an addendum to the ALL Teamwork Framework. Specifically, this document describes the procedures and available results from a feasibility study that is currently being conducted on the teamwork measures. It ...

The availability of quality water is a basic condition of socioeconomic development. The agriculture water demand can be damaged by contamination of groundwater resources. This paper proposes a tool to preserve groundwater quality by using groundwater vulnerability assessment methods and a decision support system (DSS). The mapping of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability was based on reliable me...