Computational Sustainability is a new emerging research field with the overall goal of studying and providing solutions to computational problems for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future. I will provide examples of challenge problems in Computational Sustainability, ranging from wildlife preservation and biodiversity, to balancing socio-economic needs a...

In this paper, we explore a new approach to computational sustainability based on variational inequalities (VIs). Our challenge is to compute the steady state behaviors of networks of supply chains with possibly conflicting objectives. VIs provide a way to handle this problem of modeling large networks with numerous conflicting goals. Given the size of real-world networks, suitable algorithms m...

abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...

8 AI MAGAZINE One of the central challenges in computational sustainability is how to allocate resources in order to optimize long-term objectives. An archetypal application is conservation planning: managers recommend patches of land in order to achieve long-term conservation of biodiversity. In this and similar applications, we typically have to make decisions over time: financial resources (...

In this paper we introduce a class of Markov decision processes that arise as a natural model for many renewable resource allocation problems. Upon extending results from the inventory control literature, we prove that they admit a closed form solution and we show how to exploit this structure to speed up its computation. We consider the application of the proposed framework to several problems...

— Road traffic is a problem which is increasing in cities with large population. Unrelated to this fact the number of portable and wearable devices has also been increasing throughout the population of most countries. With this advent, the capacity to monitor and register data about people habits and locations as well as more complex data such as intensity and strength of movements has created ...

Sustainability is a wide concept that contains other concepts such as social responsibility and has been investigated with concepts such as competition sustainability, reporting sustainability, and social sustainability. The present study aims to investigate the role of social interest rate risk management (SIRRM) in the relationship between sustainability performance and investment ef...

BACKGROUND In the dissemination and implementation literature, there is a dearth of information on the sustainability of community-wide physical activity (PA) programs in general and of the '10,000 Steps' project in particular. This paper reports a longitudinal evaluation of organizational and individual sustainability indicators of '10,000 Steps'. METHODS Among project adopters, department h...

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...