Scenarios are typical situations that may occur in the operation of a software system. Scenario analysis plays an important role in software requirements analysis and design. This paper introduces a formal notation for the specification of scenario s in agent-based systems. The autonomous and collaborative behavior of an agent can be formally specified by a set of rules describing its activity ...

Scenario analysis has been widely perceived to be able to play two important roles in requirement engineering. Firstly, it is a vehicle of separating concerns in the elicitation of users' requirements. Secondly, it is a means of validating specified requirements. However, there are a number of key activities in scenario analysis that demand automated tool support to make the method practically ...

We document a two-year transdisciplinary project on the transition management processes of regional clusters in textile, timber, and dairy industries in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. This canton is a rural prealpine area, which has been historically shaped by traditional industries and which lies in the vicinity of St Gallen in the Greater Zu« rich Area. Scientists and regional st...

In the last few decades, a lot of company effort has been spent in the optimization of internal efficiency, aiming at cost reduction and competitiveness. Especially over the last decade, there has been a consensus that not only the company, but the whole supply chain in which it fits, is responsible for the success or failure of any business. Therefore, supply chain analysis tools and methodolo...

The extended Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model has been applied to analyzing the relationship between CO2 emissions from power industry and the influential factors for the period from 1997 to 2020. The two groups found through partial least square (PLS) regularity test show two important areas for CO2 emissions reduction from the power indu...

tourism is an important tool for development in the world. many countries attention to their policies and programs, to continue the development of tourism as an effective tool in political, cultural and economic developments. this study discusses the identification of key factors believable and optimal future in the future of hamadan province's regional tourism. the study, in terms of func...

In today’s rapid changing market situations, many nations and companies try to keep or make better their situation and gain more market share by creating competitive advantages. Because of growing number of uncertain parameters in the environment and lack of information about the future, the strategic choice has become very complex and critical. One of the popular tools for solving the problem ...

Scenario based design allows for the early elicitation of requirements and can be helpful in the design phase of system development. It is typical for cycles of iteration to be used to refine a design so that it more closely meets its requirements. Such refinements are in terms of the original requirements specification and any new requirements that have been identified. However, not all define...

We argue that the often-proclaimed disregard of ex-ante assessments of the provision of ecosystem goods and services in policy-making processes is not only due to a neglect or a misinterpretation of the results of such assessments in the relevant political processes, but also due to an inaccurate inclusion of political variables into those assessments. To address this weakness, we combine a mod...

english) The main scope of this thesis work is to compare theoretical models with experimental observations on particle transport in particular regimes of plasma operation from the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) located at CRPP–EPFL in Lausanne. We introduce the main topics in Tokamak fusion research and the challenging problems in the first Chapter. A particular attention is devoted to...