the inappropriate indoor environmental quality of a building causes different problems such asheadache and breathing difficulties which are called the syndrome of building sickness. these diseases reduce the efficiency of people and deteriorate the quality of their life. studies carried out in hundreds of big office buildings across the world show that the indoor environment qualities of these ...

Department of Enviromental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

Wastewater management is a complex task involving a wide range of technical enviromental and social factors. Furthermore, it typically requires the coordination of a heterogeneous society of actors with different goals. Regulations and protocols can be effectively used to tackle this complexity. In this chapter we present a norm-aware multi-agent system for social simulations in a river basin. ...

o The overall aim oithis project is to address the current unsustainable situation §f the manufacturing industry in Penang, and thdjnadequacies in the regulation of this industry, in order to point towards ways that a regulation of the industry can support a less unsustainable industrial development. Penang, a small state in Malaysia, has the past 20 years underwent a tremendous economic growth...