Foresight methods are useful for long-range planning such as strategic energy
management, energy policy, and renewable and sustainable energy planning to manage …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

Shifting from fossil to clean energy sources is a major global challenge, but in particular for
those countries with substantial fossil-fuel reserves and economies depending on fossil-fuel …

The main challenges of the energy consumption forecasting problem are the concerns for
reliability, stability, efficiency and accuracy of the forecasting methods. The existing …

To stay competitive in a business environment, continuous performance evaluation based
on the triple bottom line standard of sustainability is necessary. There is a gap in addressing …

To evaluate the performance of complex electricity generation systems, a new dynamic
network-based data envelopment analysis (DNDEA) approach is presented. Past data …

Reference prices, developed by consumers who frequently buy their desired products or
services and form psychological price expectations as a benchmark, have significant …

Dubai is an emerging metropolis with unique features, such as an extremely high expatriate
ratio and turnover rate. These features, along with the extreme climatic conditions and …

In process industry, predictive control approaches have been widely used for nonlinear
production processes. Practically, the predictor in a predictive controller is extremely …

In engineering design, surrogate models are often used instead of costly computer
simulations. Typically, a single surrogate model is selected based on the previous …