Solutions for system analysis and information support of the various activities in the Arctic

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Oleynik ◽  
Pavel Lomov ◽  
Alexey Shemyakin ◽  
Alexey Avdeev
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Data Consistency ◽  
Information Support ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Ontology Design ◽  
Global Schema ◽  
Database Indexing ◽  
High Level

Comprehensive use of data and knowledge obtained within different disciplines is necessary for the scientific substantiation of activities in the Arctic zone and for a system analysis of the possible consequences of this activity. Information resources created so far allow the access to a variety of data on the Arctic. The authors propose the solution for task of data consistency ensuring in the field of combined presentation and use of data and knowledge of interdisciplinary research. The proposed solution is based on the joint use of relational database and ontology. The developed structure and mechanisms of the database maintenance provide a uniform representation of the information about results of the researches executed in the framework of various disciplines. The ontology is a high-level global schema of the information system and it provides a dictionary that is used to formulate a database query in terms of a subject domain. In this work, ontology is implemented as a system of small fragments - ontology design patterns. The patterns use makes it possible to perform efficient preliminary database indexing, which ensures faster execution of user queries.

scholarly journals Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth in Greenland: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1228
Author(s):  
Javier Arnaut ◽  
Johanna Lidman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
High Level

The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis assumes there is an inverted U-shape relationship between pollution and income per capita, implying an improvement in environmental quality when a growing economy reaches a high level of economic development. This study evaluated empirically the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve in Greenland for the period 1970–2018. Using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach, the results show evidence of a U-shaped EKC in Greenland instead of the hypothesized inverted U-shape. The findings indicate that Greenland had initially experienced a decoupling transition during an early development stage associated with structural conditions of a small subsistence economy. However, once the country began to expand its industry, the trend began to reverse, creating a positive and significant relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP per capita that is potentially detrimental to the Arctic natural environment.

scholarly journals Pattern-based design applied to cultural heritage knowledge graphs

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Valentina Anita Carriero ◽  
Aldo Gangemi ◽  
Maria Letizia Mancinelli ◽  
Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese ◽  
Valentina Presutti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Unit Testing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Rigorous Testing ◽  
Ontology Design ◽  
Domain Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Graphs

Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have become an established and recognised practice for guaranteeing good quality ontology engineering. There are several ODP repositories where ODPs are shared as well as ontology design methodologies recommending their reuse. Performing rigorous testing is recommended as well for supporting ontology maintenance and validating the resulting resource against its motivating requirements. Nevertheless, it is less than straightforward to find guidelines on how to apply such methodologies for developing domain-specific knowledge graphs. ArCo is the knowledge graph of Italian Cultural Heritage and has been developed by using eXtreme Design (XD), an ODP- and test-driven methodology. During its development, XD has been adapted to the need of the CH domain e.g. gathering requirements from an open, diverse community of consumers, a new ODP has been defined and many have been specialised to address specific CH requirements. This paper presents ArCo and describes how to apply XD to the development and validation of a CH knowledge graph, also detailing the (intellectual) process implemented for matching the encountered modelling problems to ODPs. Relevant contributions also include a novel web tool for supporting unit-testing of knowledge graphs, a rigorous evaluation of ArCo, and a discussion of methodological lessons learned during ArCo’s development.

Application of transfer pricing as a management accounting tool in the project management system

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
N. P. Agafonova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
Management Concept ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost

Modern economic conditions, due to the high level of competition, lead to the need to search for internal reserves to improve the efficiency of economic entities, one of the solutions to this problem can be considered the application of the management concept “project management”. However, its full implementation is impossible without sufficient information support, which is eliminated as a result of the use of various management accounting tools, one of which is transfer pricing. The article presents the results of a study on the use of transfer education in determining the cost of implementing an agricultural project.

The World Heritage Convention in the Arctic and Indigenous People: Time to Reform?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
High Level

This article analyses the role of the World Heritage Convention in the Arctic, particularly the role of Indigenous people in environmental protection and governance of natural, mixed and transboundary properties. It outlines the Convention in an Arctic context, profiles Arctic properties on the World Heritage List and Tentative List, and considers Arctic properties that may appear on the List of World Heritage in Danger. It gives detailed consideration to examples of Arctic natural, mixed, and potentially transboundary, properties of greatest significance to Indigenous people with reference to their environmental protection and management. In doing so, it reviews and analyses recent high-level critiques of the application of the Convention in the Arctic. Conclusions follow, the most significant of which is that the Convention and its Operational Guidelines must be reformed to be consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Credit Risk Scorecard Using Ontology Design Patterns and BCBS 239

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Jalil Elhassouni ◽  
Abderrahim El qadi ◽  
Yasser El madani El alami ◽  
Mohamed El haziti
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Credit Risk Management ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Ontology Design ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis

AbstractNowadays information and communication technologies are playing a decisive role in helping the financial institutions to deal with the management of credit risk. There have been significant advances in scorecard model for credit risk management. Practitioners and policy makers have invested in implementing and exploring a variety of new models individually. Coordinating and sharing information groups, however, achieved less progress. One of several causes of the 2008 financial crisis was in data architecture and information technology infrastructure. To remedy this problem the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) outlined a set of principles called BCBS 239. Using Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) and BCBS 239, credit risk scorecard and applicant ontologies are proposed to improve the decision making process in credit loan. Both ontologies were validated, distributed in Ontology Web Language (OWL) files and checked in the test cases using SPARQL. Thus, making their (re)usability and expandability easier in financial institutions. These ontologies will also make sharing data more effective and less costly.

scholarly journals ПРОГНОЗУВАННЯ ТА ПРИЙНЯТТЯ РІШЕНЬ В УМОВАХ НЕВИЗНАЧЕНОСТІ В ПРОБЛЕМАХ СИСТЕМНИХ МЕДИЧНИХ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. P. Martsenyuk ◽  
I Ye. Andrushchak
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Support System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Information Support ◽  
System Research ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Mining Algorithms ◽  
Information Support System

The work presents our results in field of application of system analysis methods to problem of medical research. We emphasize effects of uncertainty that should be taken into account in such complex processes. Medical system research requires information support system implementing data mining algorithms resulting in decision trees or IF-THEN rules. Besides that such system should be object-oriented and web-integrated.The aim of this study was to develop information support system based on data mining algorithms applied to system analysis method for medical system research. System analysis methods were used for qualitative analysis of diseases mathematical models. Algorithms such as decision tree induction and sequential covering algorithm were applied for data mining from learning data set.We observed the complex qualitative behavior of population and diseases models depending on parameters and controllers even without considering probabilistic nature of the most of quantities and parameters of information models.

scholarly journals Regional features of the arctic states

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-128
Author(s):  
P. Sevost'yanov ◽  
Yu. Davydova ◽  
A. Matyukhin
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
Eastern Hemisphere ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
The Arctic Region

The purpose of the article is to identify regional features of the Arctic States of the Eastern hemisphere. The Arctic region has enormous geopolitical and economic potential, and in the twenty-first century it is becoming one of the main objects of conflict of interests of the leading powers of the modern world. In their research, the authors used experimental-theoretical methods, as well as system analysis, logical and historical methods. The results of the analysis of the literature used, actual data, and research searches have shown that the key element in determining the region is its borders. There are many definitions of the Arctic, but due to the Northern features, none of them fully corresponds to the tasks of state regulation of territories. Along with the General assessment of the region and space, the article analyzes in detail various approaches to determining the borders of the Arctic region of all the countries participating in the Eastern hemisphere: Denmark, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. A retrospective analysis of the existing definitions for a wide range is carried out. The conclusions summarize that among the Arctic countries, the astronomical approach in combination with the administrative and political definitions of the participating countries themselves prevails, which begins to form trends towards changing approaches to the Arctic as a whole.

Performance Assessments of Geologic Repositories for High-Level Nuclear Waste: Are They Necessary or Sufficient?

2004 ◽  
Vol 824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney C. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Data Uncertainty ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Total System ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level

AbstractPerformance assessments of geologic repositories for high-level nuclear waste will be used to determine regulatory compliance. The determination, that with a “reasonable expectation” regulatory limits are met, is based on the presumption that all of the relevant physical, chemical and biological processes have been modeled with enough accuracy to insure that a confident judgment of safety may be made. For the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste, this generally means that models must be capable of calculating radiation exposures to a specified population at distances of tens of kilometers for periods of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. A total system performance assessment will consist of a series of cascading models that are meant in toto to capture repository performance. There are numerous sources of uncertainty in these models: scenario uncertainty, conceptual model uncertainty and data uncertainty. These uncertainties will propagate through the analysis, and the uncertainty in the total system analysis must necessarily increase with time. For the highly-coupled, non-linear systems that are characteristic of many of the physical and chemical processes, one may anticipate emergent properties that cannot, in fact, be predicted. For all of these reasons, a performance assessment is not in and of itself a sufficient basis for determining the safety of a repository, but it remains a necessary part of the effort to develop a substantive understanding of a repository site.

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