Emergence is a well established though highly contested concept in science that is found in a range of disciplines from biology and artificial life to physics and complexity. It is not in doubt that emergence is of ...

Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitatiori in 'traditional' face-to-face groups is challenged by the increased globalization of the software industry. ...

In 2009, the Australian government has formulated strategies to provide $3.9 billion Energy Efficient Home Package for cutting energy waster and $12.9 billion Water for the Future plan for reducing the use of drinking ...

The ultimate goal of sonification is to transfer information effectively to listeners. While there is a large amount of multidisci- plinary investigation in the field of psychoacoustic, psychology, cognition and human ...

This paper investigates gender disparity on several factors influencing the use ofkey scrv providers in building development. The data upon which the paper draws were collected questionnaires from a range of respondents, ...

There is little research available on individual and community experiences of environmental contamination in Australian urban areas. However, international research suggests that the health impacts for individuals and ...

This study explores the development process of seven cases of grassroots social entrepreneurship that contain the establishment of multi-sector partnerships. The paper suggests three phases in the development process and ...

The paper starts by reviewing literature on housing prices including both price determinants and research methodology. Data published by the Hong Kong Government is used for the study. The housing price variables are grouped ...

The Australian international exhibitions in 1879, 1880 and 1888 were the most important public events of the nineteenth century and transformed Sydney and Melbourne into festive cities. Every detail of their ritual ...