Decision support framework for opening business data

Open data movement is gaining widespread attention and spans across a variety of sectors (public, private, academic and civil). The last ten years have seen significant progress in opening of access to government datasets (Davies, 2010). This openness of public data has brought several benefits as: great transparency, innovation and the rise of...

Fostering Climate Resilient Electricity Infrastructures

Heat waves, hurricanes, floods and windstorms - recent years have seen dramatic failures in electricity infrastructures sparked by short-term departures of environmental conditions from their norms. Driven by a changing climate, such deviations are anticipated to increase in severity and/or frequency over the coming decades. This will have...

Special Issue on Transparency and Open Data Policies: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Literature and policy reports suggest that open data can be used as a tool to enhance transparency. However, several researchers have challenged the idea that the release of government data will result in increased transparency and the idea that transparency automatically leads to more trust in the government. Moreover, transparency may have...

A Technology Roadmap for Providing Predictive Analytics Services

Nowadays companies endure several challenges in order to succeed. They operate in dynamic environments in which customers are more demanding and active. The products and services they offer are similar in comparison with their competitors and one of the few key differentiators is improving business processes such as marketing, customer...

Developing a Generic Agent-Based Model to Explore Servicising Policy

Continuous economic growth, ignoring the incidental recession, is currently still coupled with increases in the use of resources and generation of wastes. The European Commission (EC) is looking for ways to achieve absolute decoupling between economic growth and environmental impacts. A shift from product-based to function-based production and...

A Generic Agent-Based Model to Explore Servicising Shifts

This paper describes a simulation model for informing policies towards absolute decoupling, with a focus on the possible contribution of servicising, i.e. a shift from product-based to service-based production and consumption patterns. The model is agent-based and represents a generic artificial market that revolves around a central consumption...

Simulation Gaming as a Social Development Instrument: Dealing with Complex Problems

Improving public service delivery is a very complex domain and the complexity is difficult to grasp by stakeholders having various degree of knowledge and involvement. An emergent and promising method for dealing with complex problems is simulation gaming, which can be used to capitalize the intrinsic experiences and knowledge of people and...