In e-democracy, e-participation represents a key component, as it is the way to adapt government decisions to the real expectations of citizens. The availability of information-communication technologies represents the basis for the implementation of concrete plans of citizens’ participation to the government of the community. However, there is a non trivial trade-off to manage, between securit...

background negotiations surrounding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) trade and investment agreement have recently concluded. although trade and investment agreements, part of a broader shift to global economic integration, have been argued to be vital to improved economic growth, health, and general welfare, these agreements have increasingly come under scrutiny for their direct and indirect...

Background Negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade and investment agreement have recently concluded. Although trade and investment agreements, part of a broader shift to global economic integration, have been argued to be vital to improved economic growth, health, and general welfare, these agreements have increasingly come under scrutiny for their direct and indirect...

In classical planning we are faced with the fol­ lowing formal task: Given a set A of permissible actions, a description a of init ial states and a description of final states, determine a plan I I , i.e. a finite sequence of actions from A, such that execution of II begun in any state satis­ fying is guaranteed to terminate in a state satisfying In this paper we extend the classical model of p...

The upcoming European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is one of the more controversial climate policy instruments. Predictions about its likely impact and its performance can at present only be made to a certain degree. As long as the National Allocations Plans are not finally settled, the overall supply of allowances is not determined. In this paper we identify key features and key impacts of t...

The upcoming European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is one of the more controversial climate policy instruments. Predictions about its likely impact and its performance can at present only be made to a certain degree. As long as the National Allocations Plans are not finally settled the overall supply of allowances is not determined. In this paper, we will identify key features and key impacts...

This paper presents an approach to representing and manipulating plans and other synthesised artifacts in the form of a set of constraints. The (Issues - Nodes - Orderings/Variables/Auxiliary) constraints model is used to characterise plans and processes. The more general (Issues - Nodes - Critical/Auxiliary) constraints model can be used for wider applications in design, con...