The core goal of the case study in heavy process industry was to define how to create an effective and efficient integration in the business operations systems including quality, environmental and safety operations. A great challenge was to find out the basis for the integration and to help to decide the actions needed. A company can have only one management system for all the business operatio...

Risk analysis is the only effective way of making value judgments about the need for security. Established analysis methods apply to whole operational systems, taking a necessarily holistic view of security, but this makes them difficult to integrate into the design process for service-based applications, where design and implementation is independent of operational deployment. However, the mos...

The typical insurance firm is subject to a wide variety of risks. Understanding and quantifying the interrelationships between individual risk elements is a significantly important but complex challenge. If we view all the risks in a firm as an integrated system, we can apply a computer-assisted learning process called Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to construct a structural graph and i...

Before industry can adopt Multi-Agent System (MAS) critical issues like safety and security must be solved. The first part of this paper introduces an implementation architecture that serves as a framework to discuss the various aspects of MAS safety, and to classify the many heterogeneous approaches in this field. In the second part of the paper we present our own approach to increase MAS safe...

This paper deals with the assessment of Safety Management Systems performance and presents a new tool developed for that purpose. It recognizes two dimensions in a SMS: a structural facet corresponding to the formal description of the system and an operational one focused on the system’s influence on the working environment and practices of people. Building up the operational performance of a S...

Integrated, interdisciplinary crop performance forecasting systems, linked with appropriate decision and discussion support tools, could substantially improve operational decision making in agricultural management. Recent developments in connecting numerical weather prediction models and general circulation models with quantitative crop growth models offer the potential for development of integ...

[1] A proper understanding of the sources and effects of uncertainty is needed to achieve the goals of reliability and sustainability in water resource management and planning. Many studies have focused on uncertainties relating to climate inputs (e.g., precipitation and temperature), as well as those related to supply and demand relationships. In the end-to-end projection of the hydrological i...

The bankruptcy of financial institutions shows the rapid changes in the risks profiles of financial systems and processes. Although financial institutions have always managed the operational risks, the profile of this kind of risks is changing due to the increasing international competitive pressure and the evolution of the financial institutions’ operational systems relying more and more on IT...

System engineering is one of the most powerful tools for comprehensive project management and control. This tool emphasized the life cycle of the projects, manages every single activity and helps manage the main elements of the project through a set of management and engineering processes. The goal of the current study is to use a system engineering approach in design phase in order or to meet ...

Risk Management is common to projects and operations, the two major phases in the product's lifecycle, but is practiced independently and almost disconnectedly in these two domains. Unfortunately, current risk management methodologies hardly address the problem of risk transition from projects to operations, during the product's transition from the former phase to the latter, or vice versa. Pro...