Building the System: Follow-up, monitoring & adaptive management

Does impact assessment (IA) end when the license has been granted? While societal resources tend to focus on rigorous project approvals, what happens to the project, to the public and to the environment once approval is granted? Follow up and monitoring are often an afterthought for legislators, public servants and proponents. But they are critical to public confidence and to ensuring that proponents live up to their commitments in a rapidly changing world."This report draws from research funded by the Impact Assessment Agency as part of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Knowledge Mobilization Grant on Informing Best Practice in Environmental and Impact Assessment.

A normative approach to multi-agent systems for intelligent buildings

Building Management Systems (BMS) are widely adopted in modern buildings around the world in order to provide high-quality building services, and reduce the running cost of the building. However, most BMS are functionality-oriented and do not consider user personalization. The aim of this research is to capture and represent building management rules using organizational semiotics methods. We implement Semantic Analysis, which determines semantic units in building management and their relationship patterns of behaviour, and Norm Analysis, which extracts and specifies the norms that establish how and when these management actions occur. Finally, we propose a multi-agent framework for norm based building management. This framework contributes to the design domain of intelligent building management system by defining a set of behaviour patterns, and the norms that govern the real-time behaviour in a building

Maintenance management and servises (case study: PERKESO building's in penisular of Malaysia)

Maintenance Management and Services is a combination of several actions in which to retain or restore an item to perform its required action. PERTUBUHAN KESELAMATAN SOSIAL (PERKESO) as one of the semi government sector in Malaysia that has many assets, needs maintenance to prevent the assets from deterioration. Maintenance in PERKESO was monitor and control by Property Unit and Local PERKESO Office. There are two maintenance system presently implemented at PERKESO: Preventive maintenance and Corrective Maintenance. The maintenance and services in PERKESO are divided to two building type: stand alone building and shop lot building. Maintenance and services for stand alone PERKESO building is total preventive maintenance and services scope and for shop lot PERKESO building scope maintenance and services only cover cleaning, M&E preventive maintenance and Pest Control. Aim of this study to propose maintenance management & services system. To achieve the aim of this study, five objectives have been set, to study the maintenance management system presently implemented. To identify the common problem in maintenance management and services. To identify the tenant satisfactory level upon the maintenance and services implemented. To identify tenant opinion to make improvement for maintenance management and services. From the data analyze and propose maintenance management and services system. This research focused on PERKESO Building’s in Peninsular of Malaysia. To obtain the data the following knowledge acquisition methods were used by interview, questionnaire and archives. An interview were set for two session, pre-interview done before set questionnaire and interview after the analysis data had done Result of the study showed the responds of the end user customer for the overall building conditions and the services given is fair. To achieve the tenants’ satisfaction level, a new maintenance management system is proposed

Accompanying farmers in the building of collective rules for agrobiodiversity management

This research aims at accompanying farmers in building a durable collective management of their subsidence cereals varietal diversity. Varietal diversity dynamics are driven by farmers' individual choices and strategies on the one hand, and by the seed system functioning on the other hand. We think that the mutual understanding of the interactions arising in this complex system is a prerequisite to work together on the construction of durable collective management rules. We follow a dynamic research process that uses models building and simulation through Agent-Based Models and Role-Playing Games. We have used these tools to collect, synthesize, formalize and exchange researchers and stakeholders knowledge. As a result, we have a model of the system built with the active input of Malian farmers. This model will next be used in simulations for collective prospecting on management scenarios. (Résumé d'auteur

Accompanying farmers in the building of collective rules for agrobiodiversity management

This research aims at accompanying farmers in building a durable collective management of their subsidence cereals varietal diversity. Varietal diversity dynamics are driven by farmers' individual choices and strategies on the one hand, and by the seed system functioning on the other hand. We think that the mutual understanding of the interactions arising in this complex system is a prerequisite to work together on the construction of durable collective management rules. We follow a dynamic research process that uses models building and simulation through Agent-Based Models and Role-Playing Games. We have used these tools to collect, synthesize, formalize and exchange researchers and stakeholders knowledge. As a result, we have a model of the system built with the active input of Malian farmers. This model will next be used in simulations for collective prospecting on management scenarios. (Résumé d'auteur

SUCCESS FACTORS OF CHANGE IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

The goal of our study is to examine, how the logic of change management implementation and analysing raster of success factors helps to lay the foundation of building up knowledge management system. We led our research first of all along theoretical basis building upon technical literature. We present a generally utilized changing logic extracting those essential elements that get similar importance in the course of building up a learning organizational culture. As a result of our work we established that the utilization of change management logic is indispensable for the successful formation of corporate knowledge management system. Accordingly with the appearance of the demand on continuous learning and putting the individual in the centre both on individual- group- and organizational level simplify work. Comparing the two logics confirms our hypothesis.organization, change management, knowledge, learning organization, knowledge management.

Management Of Building Projects

In this work we have shown the concept of logistic support in management in building production and in building of objects, which is realised in Enterprise resource Planning – ERP system ERPINSG, developed in Informatic firm Informatic engineering – ININ in Slavonski Brod, and in cooperation with scientists of catedra for informatics of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and users from building firms.manufacturing logistic, management, ERP systems, ERPINSG

BEMS Building Energy Management System

Voce dell’Enciclopedia Wikitecnica. BEMS Building Energy Management System (2000 battute)

Advanced information processing system: Local system services

The Advanced Information Processing System (AIPS) is a multi-computer architecture composed of hardware and software building blocks that can be configured to meet a broad range of application requirements. The hardware building blocks are fault-tolerant, general-purpose computers, fault-and damage-tolerant networks (both computer and input/output), and interfaces between the networks and the computers. The software building blocks are the major software functions: local system services, input/output, system services, inter-computer system services, and the system manager. The foundation of the local system services is an operating system with the functions required for a traditional real-time multi-tasking computer, such as task scheduling, inter-task communication, memory management, interrupt handling, and time maintenance. Resting on this foundation are the redundancy management functions necessary in a redundant computer and the status reporting functions required for an operator interface. The functional requirements, functional design and detailed specifications for all the local system services are documented