The authors argue that commonly used ranking and rating methods of value surveys may have low validity in cross-cultural value comparisons because participants' reports about values can be affected by factors such as cultural differences in the meaning of particular value terms as well as the possibility that some value judgments are based on social comparison or deprivation rather than on any ...

We consider a dynamic facility location model in which the objective is to find a planning horizon, x*, and a first period decision, XI*, such that XI* is a first period decision for at least one optimal policy for all problems with planning horizons equal to or longer than x*. In other words, we seek a planning horizon, "r*, such that conditions after x* do not influence the choice of the opti...

In this paper, we present a dynamic simulation model which projects the future population of the city of Leeds as a basis for policy analysis and scenario planning. We argue that microsimulation modelling is not entirely effective in the representation of student populations. Alternative approaches using both spatial interaction models and student agents are presented and evaluated. The results...

Article history: Received 22 April 2008 Received in revised form 10 July 2008 Accepted 12 July 2008 In order to deal with growing uncertainties emerging in the 3Gwireless industry and to preserve their competitiveness, managers involved in the wireless value network should identify future success very early and develop their strategic planning on time. This study, based on a Scenario Evaluation...

Scenario planning may assist us in harnessing the benefits of nanotechnology and managing the associated risks for the good of the society. Scenario planning is a way to describe the present state of the world and develop several hypotheses about the future of the world, thereby enabling discussions about how the world ought to be. Scenario planning thus is not only a tool for learning and fore...

While a country is surging ahead from a developing country to the status of a developed nation, the term "Development" has a connotation, both in terms of macro-level or micro-level development. When referred at the country level it becomes macro-level development, while at districts, it becomes microlevel development. At the sub-state level, “District” is the basic unit for all administrative ...

We consider the problem of restoring services provided by infrastructure systems after an extreme event disrupts them. This research proposes a novel integrated network design and scheduling problem that models these restoration efforts. In this problem, work groups must be allocated to build nodes and arcs into a network in order to maximize the cumulative weighted flow in the network over a h...

Future landscapes are the result of many different processes, some controllable and some not, some predictable and others less so. This lack of predictability and controllability are real challenges to landscape planners and modellers alike who are interested in medium to long-term futures. Scenarios are a standard tool for dealing with and describing variation in the future, however it is impo...