The scenario of brane inflation without using the conventional slow-roll approximations has been investigated. Based on the mechanism of generating the curvature perturbations at the end of inflation, a new brane inflation paradigm was developed. The conditions for making a sufficiently large enough number of e-foldings and for generating the curvature perturbations without producing dangerous ...

We describe an opportunity to speed up multi-stage scenario generation and reduction using a combination of two well known methods: the moment matching method (Høyland and Wallace 2001) and the method for scenario reduction to approximately minimize a metric (Heitsch and Römish 2009). Our suggestions is to combine them rather than using them in serial by making use of a stage-wise approximation...

The present paper introduces a scenario-based framework design for connecting emergency response system with human behavior analysis and social information processing, which aims at improving its comprehensive capability in dealing with unexpected situations caused by physical, social and psychological factors during a crisis. The overall framework consists of four function modules: scenario aw...

An e-government project management and development scenario in a fictional country is described. Emphasis is given on how local culture undermines project quality. A detailed fictional project development scenario is presented. The interplay between different players, i.e. project developers, reviewers, and public services, is illustrated. While the rules of technology are the same everywhere, ...

In this paper, the author reports findings from research concerning the planning of learning scenarios in education. The purpose of the research is to explore the value of this scenario planning and reflection-on-action. In particular, the research objective is to explore how this innovative method can guide the adoption of ICT in education and cultivate competencies for lifelong and lifewide l...

This position paper examines a critical paradox in e-health: there is a striking gap between critical information services for health care that can be implemented today using existing in information and communication technologies and those services that are actually available. Facets of this paradox are examined in the context of Canadian analyses and policy, advanced research on health care re...

Software is subject to continuous change. Software quality is determined by large extent through architecture which reflects important decisions, e.g. on structure and technology. For sound decision making during evolution change impacts on various system artifacts must be understood. In this paper, we introduce a new evolution scenario (replacing the database) to an established demonstrator fo...