Fuzzy-based wastewater quality indices for pollution classification: a case study in the United Arab EmiratesEnvironment Systems and Decisions - Tập 36 - Trang 62-71 - 2015
Mohamed Ibrahim Kizhisseri, Mohamed Mostafa Ahmed Mohamed
This paper presents a fuzzy logic-based tool for assessing the pollution concentration of effluents generated by various industrial and commercial activities. The study proposes a fuzzy overall pollution compliance index (FOPCI) (range 0–100) to classify the wastewater discharged from various types of properties present in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. The work mainly focused on three types of poll...... hiện toàn bộ
Analysis of drought risk management strategies using dynamic inoperability input–output modeling and event tree analysisEnvironment Systems and Decisions - Tập 34 - Trang 492-506 - 2014
Joost R. Santos, Sheree T. Pagsuyoin, Lucia C. Herrera, Raymond R. Tan, Krista D. Yu
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of droughts in many parts of the world. Since water is an essential resource for many economic activities, water scarcity can cause disruptions that manifest as losses in industrial outputs. These effects can propagate through economic systems as a result of the inherent interdependencies among economic sectors. Risk management st...... hiện toàn bộ
Protecting asset value and driving performance with a dynamic, risk-based contingency fundEnvironment Systems and Decisions - Tập 34 - Trang 417-424 - 2014
C. W. Mauelshagen, S. J. T. Pollard, D. Owen, S. Herndlhofer, P. Firth, J. McKenna, N. Bingley, P. Jenson
We present a risk-based contingency fund management methodology to mitigate the impact of external risks on asset value and performance. Many asset intensive industries, such as water and energy utilities, are significantly affected by external risks such as extreme weather events. We put the case for a centrally held risk-based contingency fund that would mitigate against ‘medium’ impact ‘medium’...... hiện toàn bộ
Supervised clustering for automated document classification and prioritization: a case study using toxicological abstractsEnvironment Systems and Decisions - - 2017
Arun Varghese, Michelle Cawley, Tao Hong
Machine learning and natural language processing algorithms are currently widely used to retrieve relevant documents in a variety of contexts, including literature review and systematic review. Supervised machine learning algorithms perform well in terms of retrieval metrics such as recall and precision, but require the use of a sizeable training dataset, which is typically expensive to develop. U...... hiện toàn bộ
A prescriptive framework for recommending decision attributes of infrastructure disaster recovery problemsEnvironment Systems and Decisions - Tập 41 - Trang 633-650 - 2021
Milad Zamanifar, Timo Hartmann
This paper proposes a framework to systematically evaluate and select attributes of decision models used in disaster risk management. In doing so, we formalized the attribute selection process as a sequential screening-utility problem by formulating a prescriptive decision model. The aim is to assist decision-makers in producing a ranked list of attributes and selecting a set among them. We develo...... hiện toàn bộ
Jumps in Euribor and the effect of ECB monetary policy announcementsEnvironment Systems and Decisions - Tập 36 - Trang 142-157 - 2016
Frances Shaw, Finbarr Murphy, Fergal G. O’Brien
The main tool that the ECB uses to influence monetary policy is through the short-term refinancing rate, a change in the short-term interest rate can in turn cause the whole yield curve to shift. In addition to central bank announcements, interbank rates such as Euribor are also influenced by, forward guidance from the ECB, various macroeconomic events, liquidity in the money markets and the perce...... hiện toàn bộ