Traditional Decision Support Systems (DSS) provide strong data management, modelling and visualisation capabilities for the decision maker but they do not explicitly support scenario management appropriately. Systems that purport to support scenario planning are complex and difficult to use and do not fully support all phases of scenario management. We introduce scenario as a core component of ...

Increasing sophistications and complexity of modern projects create new challenges to design management practices. This paper discusses an integrated approach for managing design complexity in engineering projects. Innovations in architectural design, construction processes, information technology and communications and increasing regulations have significant contributions in resulting complexi...

Linking global science to locally significant places with visioning processes and visualizations represents a powerful tool for decision-making in the context of climate change responses. The Local Climate Change Visioning Project in British Columbia, Canada, builds on recent advances in backcasting and scenario-building to bridge the divide between predictive, quantitative approaches and narra...

The application of the market metaphor to forecasting uncertain future events exhibits appealing characteristics such as forecast accuracy and being considered attractive by most users. Based on the demonstrated success of such so called prediction markets as an accurate forecasting mechanism, the market metaphor has been applied to related domains such as decision making and decision support i...

Territorial Life Cycle Assessment (TLCA) appears a promising method to support informed decision making of local actors in territorial agricultural production systems (TAPS), by assessing environmental impacts activities and potential strategies. The objectives this study were i) adapt TLCA methodology integrated assessment TAPS ii) evaluate TLCA's contribution supporting scenarios change TAPS....

Security and mobility have become a seemingly inseparable concept in the recent European geopolitical landscape. While historically deeply rooted social, economic legal aspects of migration been extensively studied, current emphasis on emergency management, which has radically shaping law-making law-enforcement dynamics, rather underexplored. Taking stock challenges emerging view adjusting enfo...