It is often said that we live in a time of crisis for social democracy. Many the West European centre-left parties seemed natural government second half twentieth century are decline. The most common long-term explanations centre on shrinking working class, widening gap between party elite and their core voters, challenges from new populist and/or greens. Short-term policy factors include failu...

This paper presents an integrated approach that combines ‘Sustainable Building Design’ tools and ‘Sustainable Manufacturing Process’ tools to create a tool for the design of sustainable manufacturing systems.’ Currently no such integrated tools are in use by manufacturers to assess energy performance, identify improvement areas and help suggest actions. This paper describes the development of a...

This study described the various ways that newcomers proactively attempt to gain feelings of personal control during organizational entry and examined their longitudinal effects on self-reported performance and satisfaction in a sample of organizational newcomers. The results suggest that individuals engage in proactive activities such as information and feedback seeking, relationship building,...

T he Women’s Empowerment Project (WEP) was created by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH). Its goal is to empower women who are homeless to advocate for their right to decent and affordable housing, child care, and livable wage jobs. Critical to these efforts was the acquisition and development of an abandoned building on Chicago’s South Side: the Brand New Beginnings Project (BNB)1, a...

CONTEXT Physical activity coalitions are increasingly forming to meet the demands associated with policy, systems, and environmental change necessary to realize increases in population levels of physical activity. Little is known about what makes physical activity coalitions successful; however, evidence from community-based coalitions in other public health domains suggests that factors relate...

Coalition formation is an important coordination problem in multi-agent robotics when a particular task cannot be accomplished by a single robot. We draw inspiration from the male bottlenose dolphins, which form varied levels of alliances to increase their chances of mating. We model the multi-level alliance formation of dolphins using tools from hybrid systems and embedded graph grammars in or...

Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially we can compare real intervention strategies with those an agent-based model suggests and hence obtain new insights and guidelines of ...

Security tactics describe security design decisions in a very general, abstract, and implementation-independent way and provide basic security design guidance. Tactics directly address system quality attributes and can be seen as building blocks for design patterns. In order to establish a more detailed security tactic collection, we link them with the Common Criteria security certification sta...

Large organizations often utilize independent sub-units to pursue specific strategic and business objectives. These organizations have compelling reasons for independent sub-units to act in consistent, coordinated ways including costs, regulation, and customer priorities. Coordination is particularly important in the implementation of enterprise information technology (IT) and information syste...