As e-learning or blended learning is more and more popular these days, but with the lack of certain tools, most of the e-learning objects are just simple power point files, pdf files, word documents, HTML files or simple flash files uploaded to a Learning Management System. On many occasions, instructors cannot devote sufficient energy nor time to develop more interesting flash or animations fo...

Collaborative product design is nowadays a trend of advanced manufacturing technology. Collaborative product design is a knowledge-intensive activity; knowledge management in collaborative product design has been focused. Existing literatues maily focus on knowledge management systems in collaborative design, other aspects of design activity is rarely paid attention to. The framework of activit...

municipal solid wastes (msws) vary in terms of quality and quantity, especially their toxic content. the efficient and sound disposal of msws not only needs implementing an integrated management procedure, but also performing a conservative way to reduce the impacts on resources. in the present research, after characterization of msw streams and consideration of disposal methods practiced in si...

This study describes a model (MIKADO) to analyse options to reduce the environmental impact of aluminium die casting. This model will take a company perspective, so that it can be used as a decision-support tool for the environmental management of a plant. MIKADO can be used to perform scenario analyses to analyse the impact on the environment of different strategies, while taking into account ...

We present Scenario Planning Advisor (SPA), that takes as input the relevant news and social media trends that characterize the current situation, as well as the domain knowledge and generates multiple plans explaining the observations and projecting future states. The resulting plans are clustered and summarized to generate the scenarios for use in scenario planning for enterprise risk managem...

Malaysia has rapidly modernized, with most of the population now residing in cities and remainder rural or remote areas. The amount municipal solid waste generated increased tandem country's rapid urbanization response to that statement. Due a lack connectivity areas, there may be insufficient infrastructure for proper management system. As result, illegal dumping was common, landfills' massive...

Background: Due to the lack of a proper waste management system, Tehran Municipality Region 20 is facing economic and environmental problems such as the high costs of a disposal system and source pollution. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for collecting and evaluating the inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. The current stud...