Web 2.0 driven sustainability reporting describes an emerging digital approach of sustainability online reporting using the support of web 2.0 technologies. Such a computerbased application of semantics overcomes the limitations of orthodox reporting methods as it provides an array of specific capabilities to improve the way of communicating sustainability issues both, for companies (reporters)...

Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific and an ethical issue. If sustainability is defined as “meeting human needs in a socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most of the words in its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical normative terms such as “human needs” and “ecosystem healt...

Sustainability is without doubt one of the most important challenges of our time. How can we develop prosperity, without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating concepts of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, annual reports and in their actions. Information systems (IS) provide organizations with the ability to change and improve business ...

Sustainability has been assessed by measuring the environmental, social and economic performance. Such diverse measurements could include contrasting attributes in sustainability measures namely environmental, social, and economic attributes. Our research argues that it is necessary to use a multidimensional approach for sustainability knowledge improvements that consist of all sustainability d...

Periodically, new major forces dramatically reshape the business world. Just as globalisation, the information technology revolution and the knowledge economy have been doing for the past two decades. In the early part of this twenty-first century, the most important pressures facing businesses worldwide, especially those in the developed world, is arguably the need for integrating sustainabili...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how both the amount and type of coursework impact students’ conceptualizations of sustainability. Previous research demonstrates that academic coursework influences students’ environmental attitudes, yet few studies have examined the impact of coursework on how students conceptualize “sustainability”. Design/methodology/approach – Data are examined from the ...

We introduce a new anomaly detection methodology for data with latent dependency structure. As a particular instantiation, we derive a hidden Markov anomaly detector that extends the regular one-class support vector machine. We optimize the approach, which is non-convex, via a DC (difference of convex functions) algorithm, and show that the parameter ν can be conveniently used to control the nu...

In many fields in computational sustainability, applications of POMDPs are inhibited by the complexity of the optimal solution. One way of delivering simple solutions is to represent the policy with a small number of α-vectors. We would like to find the best possible policy that can be expressed using a fixed number N of α-vectors. We call this the N-POMDP problem. The existing solver α-min app...

Exploiting parallelism is a key strategy for speeding up computation. However, on hard combinatorial problems, such a strategy has been surprisingly challenging due to the intricate variable interactions. In this paper we introduce a novel way in which parallelism can be used to exploit hidden structure of hard combinatorial problems, orthogonal to divide-andconquer and portfolio approaches. We...

Cosponsors Artificial Intelligence Journal Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación National Science Foundation (NSF) Universitat de Barcelona Knowtion TCA Software Solutions Yahoo! Labs Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGUAR) Agreement Technologies Project Alear Project Google NICTA Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) iSOCO ECCAI ESADE Business School IBM Research M...