Publication detail

Integrated Evaluation of Sustainability and Competitiveness Using Trend Models

KOCMANOVÁ, A. DOHNAL, M.

Original Title

Integrated Evaluation of Sustainability and Competitiveness Using Trend Models

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

In her paper, the authors analyzes a relation of sustainability and competitiveness as complex and unique. There is no chance to use traditional formal tools as e.g. statistics. There are many reasons for that e.g. shortage of data, interdisciplinary nature. Modeling and optimization of vaguely described and prohibitively complex systems in a realistic environment must necessarily be based on vague and sparse knowledge. The analysis of scientific literature and the investigation fulfilled. A theory of qualitative modeling offers a flexible tool capable of dealing with very vague knowledge items. The goal is to introduce some methods of artificial intelligence into the decision making, which covers interdisciplinary tasks where integration of such sub tasks as solutions of ecological problems versus competitiveness. The key formal tool will be common sense reasoning, specifically qualitative models.Qualitative models are based on three values only, namely increasing, constant and decreasing. It means that just trends are considered and no quantities e.g. numbers. Qualitative models are used to generate all possible scenarios taking into consideration multi-criteria nature of a problem under study. The complete list of scenarios guarantees that any (multi-criteria) search based on it is complete as well. The scenarios can be screened against the prescribed trends (e.g. maximization or minimization of different objective functions). A semi realistic case study (environmental aspects of ecology) is presented.

Keywords

Sustainability, qualitative models, competitiveness, environmental aspects, ecological modellers

Authors

KOCMANOVÁ, A.; DOHNAL, M.

RIV year

2011

Released

10. 3. 2011

Publisher

MZLU ,Fakulta podnikohospodářská Brno

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-87106-40-2

Book

Enterprise and Competitive Environment

Edition

2011

Edition number

1

ISBN

NEUVEDENO

Pages from

78

Pages to

93

Pages count

15

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT72661,
  author="Alena {Kocmanová} and Mirko {Dohnal}",
  title="Integrated Evaluation of Sustainability and Competitiveness Using Trend Models",
  booktitle="Enterprise and Competitive Environment",
  year="2011",
  series="2011",
  number="1",
  pages="78--93",
  publisher="MZLU ,Fakulta podnikohospodářská Brno",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-87106-40-2"
}