This paper proposes optimal operation scheduling of a Microgrid (MG) and battery swapping stations (BSSs) as two independent stakeholders with inherently conflicting objectives. In this regard, a ...bi-level scheduling framework for optimal decision making of MG and BSSs is presented. Moreover, battery degradation cost is explicitly modeled based on the depth of discharge and the cycle life's intrinsic behavior of batteries. In order to tackle both historical data-based and human-related uncertainties under incomplete information including load demand of MG, photovoltaic generation, wholesale market prices, and swapping requests, a hybrid probabilistic-possibilistic approach considering correlation among uncertainties has been developed. To solve the proposed MG-BSS optimization problem, alternative direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with restart algorithm in a fully decentralized fashion is implemented. The effectiveness of the proposed model is demonstrated on a real-test MG system under different scenarios. Moreover, to compare the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm with the standard ADMM and investigate the scalability of the algorithm, extensive simulations are carried out on different standard test system.
Trust in Blockchain Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Rehman, Muhammad Habib ur; Salah, Khaled; Damiani, Ernesto ...
IEEE transactions on engineering management,
11/2020, Letnik:
67, Številka:
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The recent growth in blockchain-based cryptocurrency ecosystem has been attracting researchers, developers, investors, regulators, and speculators to develop new economic and business models for ...trade, investment, and taxation. Currently, the cryptocurrency ecosystem is immature with multifaceted trust issues at all levels from technology providers to users and governments. In this article, we present a detailed analysis of trust issues in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including a detailed taxonomic discussion of the key trust aspects including price manipulation, price volatility, insider trading, parallel economy, shadow economy, reputation systems, transparency, centrality, token economy, governance, regulations, design, usability, privacy, and security. We also present a comparative analysis of the top 10 cryptocurrencies that are holding about 85% of the total market capital. Finally, we present a detailed summary of the key trust issues and their potential immediate, short-term, and long-term solutions. This article reveals that significant effort is required to develop a fully trustworthy cryptocurrency ecosystem.
•Cognitive analytics through AI improves healthcare stakeholders’ engagement.•Technological acceptance and social networks reimage cognitive analytics for BMI.•Innovation through digital diffusion is ...increasing in healthcare management.•Corruption adversely impacts responsible AI-enabled BMI.•Regulatory factors affect responsible AI-enabled BMI.
Cognitive analytics employs and analyses complex and heterogeneous data sources generating deeper insights that mimic the natural intelligence of the human brain. Cognitive analytics-enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) that promotes Business Model Innovation (BMI) for the efficiency of the healthcare system is a nascent and undertheorized domain. Within the healthcare management systems, stakeholders’ engagement with AI, particularly with responsible AI, to optimize BMI and improve business performance is bounded by several caveats. Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Social Network Theory (SNT) as our conceptual foci, we empirically examine through the Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network the extent to which responsible AI leads to Business Model Innovation (BMI) through the stakeholders’ engagement. Our contributions are novel which demonstrate that cognitive analytics-enabled responsible AI is central to innovation, and healthcare stakeholders exhibit a robust propensity to reorientate and innovate their existing BMI to achieve improved business performance. It has significant implications for innovation, AI and cognitive analytics literature.
Collective actions against major construction projects are becoming common because of the public’s increasing civil rights awareness and environmental consciousness. Thus, it is important to explore ...the critical factors responsible for collective actions against major construction projects. This study initially developed 25 indicators inducing collective actions based on a comprehensive literature review. An empirical study with 127 samples was conducted using questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews from projects located in Central China. Furthermore, ranking analysis and factor analyses were implemented to conclude that collective actions in major construction projects can be explained by a six-dimension critical factor system: benefits to the public, characteristics of project performers, layout of projects, living quality of the public, perceptions of the public, and influence from the authority. This study contributes to government administration for collective actions against major construction projects and serves as a useful reference for further studies of this type.
•25 indicators of collective action are identified in major construction projects.•Empirical evidence from 200 subjects is obtained in two projects.•A six-dimension factor system is proposed to explain the collective action.•The results have practical implications at the management level in major projects.
•Young actors’ perspectives and roles are absent in conservation and sustainability literature.•Importance of sustainable livelihood opportunities for youth in their home territories.•Youth value ...community participation and wellbeing in addition to biodiversity conservation.•Youth are active stewards in governing bodies, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and education.•Need to investigate pathways for effective involvement of youth in environmental governance.
Young stakeholders are key actors in social-ecological systems, who have the capacity to be agents of sustainability transformation but are also at high risk of exclusion in the unfolding of global change challenges. Despite the focus of sustainability on future generations, there has been little research effort aimed at understanding young actors’ roles as biosphere stewards. In this work we investigate how young stakeholders perceive and participate in the implementation of sustainability objectives in 74 Biosphere Reserves of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme across 83 countries, through participatory group workshops, individual surveys and grey literature review. We explore to what extent youth perceptions are aligned or not with current understandings of Biosphere Reserves and how young stakeholders are acting in pursuit of Biosphere Reserve objectives. We find that young stakeholders have a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by environmental governance, such as resilience and adaptation to global change and the governance challenges of implementing adaptive co-management and increasing stakeholder participation. We also show that young stakeholders can be active participants in a wide range of activities that contribute to achieving conservation and development goals in their territories. They are particularly concerned with youth participation within all levels of Biosphere Reserve functioning and with the creation of sustainable livelihood opportunities that will allow future generations to remain in their native territories. Our study provides evidence of the importance of young stakeholder knowledge and perspectives as central actors in conservation and development initiatives, like Biosphere Reserves, and of the need to increase young stakeholder integration and participation within environmental governance.
This study aims to develop MTB-MLE instructional material such as alphabet primer for the use of Grade 1 pupils in Iyakan language and to test its effectiveness. 100 pupils (Grade 1) participated in ...the study from a selected public elementary school in a particular city and province in Mindanao, Philippines. The study used a one-group pre-test-post-test design where the worksheets were taken from the Iyakan Alphabet Primer as instruments. Experts in mother-tongue education and members of the community validated and critiqued the alphabet primer. The results of the study demonstrated that the alphabet primer may be tailored to meet the needs of students at the Grade 1 level. Word identification, alphabet knowledge, spelling knowledge, and handwriting are all areas where the learners have shown substantial improvement. The findings suggest that the mother-tongue alphabet primer has potential as a means of raising students’ achievement. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the developed alphabet primer book be used as a supplementary resource for teachers of MTB-MLE with the Iyakan language as L1, that additional teaching guides be created to support teachers in the classroom, that more instructional materials in the first or local languages be created and used in the classrooms, and that the alphabet primer be translated into other dialects or languages in the city or province to maximize their use.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a university that uses a collective intelligence approach for managing its intellectual capital (IC). Specifically, the authors ...investigate how one of Europe’s oldest business schools, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), manages IC through stakeholder engagement to achieve academia’s third mission so contributing to social and economic development.
Design/methodology/approach
Data are collected through semi-structured interviews and Ca’ Foscari University’s strategic plan. Secundo
et al.
’s (2016) collective intelligence framework is used to analyse the data. Alvesson and Deetz’s (2000, pp. 19-20) critical management tasks – insight, critique and transformative redefinition – are adopted to frame and discuss the results.
Findings
On the assumption that a university is a collective intelligence system, the findings demonstrate that IC management needs to change to incorporate an ecosystem perspective, reflecting the fourth stage of IC research. The IC management at the university incorporates its core goal (what), the collective involvement of internal and external stakeholders to achieve the goal (who), the motivations behind the achievement of the goal (why) and, finally, the processes activated inside the university (how) and indicators to assess value creation.
Research limitations/implications
A new perspective for managing IC in universities that adopts a collective intelligence approach is further developed. Contributions to the fourth stage of IC research – IC in an ecosystem – are highlighted that expand the concept of IC value creation beyond universities into wider society.
Practical implications
Two key consequences of this case study are that more stakeholders have become involved in IC management and that IC management requires critical rethinking, given the universities’ evolving role.
Originality/value
This paper brings together issues that are usually dealt with in separate domains of the literature: IC management and collective intelligence in the university setting.
Leaders need to consider how to manage multiple and conflicting reputations in global organizations. There are three interrelated sets of inputs to consider. First, relational factors such as an ...organization's past activities and wider threats. Second, antecedents such as stakeholder experiences, organizational actions and third-party reporting. Third, intermediaries such as popular, mass and social media. Leaders of global organizations can manage multiple and conflicting reputations in several ways. First, by addressing what is salient for stakeholders alongside what organizations consider as salient. Second, balancing compromise with intransigence to build trust with stakeholders. Third, managing brand, communication and public relations activity from headquarters as a networked hub. Fourth, connecting activities between its past and present as well as with its planned future global activities.
Research on how shareholders influence the interests of stakeholders has proliferated in recent years, at pace with the active debate on the merits of “stakeholder capitalism.” This research has ...sought to unpack: (1) the types of shareholders that affect stakeholder-relevant firm outcomes, (2) the mechanisms through which shareholders exert their influence on stakeholders’ interests, (3) the types of stakeholders that are influenced by shareholders, and (4) the factors that moderate the influence of shareholders on stakeholder-relevant firm outcomes. However, this literature is highly fragmented, as it spans the boundaries of various disciplines, draws on different theoretical frameworks, and is based on diverse assumptions. Moreover, exsiting research discusses outcome variables that are relevant to stakeholders, but not from the perspective of stakeholder interests. A comprehensive review of the literature is essential for understanding the heterogeneity of shareholders in terms of their impact on other stakeholders. In the absence of such an endeavor, we systematically review, synthesize, interpret, and critique literature published over the past three decades in leading management, sociology, finance, and accounting journals. Focusing on articles about how shareholders influence stakeholder interests through firms' decisions and outcomes, we chart a promising path for future studies to more fully unpack the complex relationships between shareholders and various other stakeholders.
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