Transformation Scenarios Research Articles

Reflection of Linguacultural Perception of Relationship by Marriage in the Dialect World View of the Kuban Region Inhabitants.

The article is focused on the description of the relations between relatives by marriage in the dialect world view of the Kuban region inhabitants. It demonstrates that the most vivid depiction of their linguacultural perception of relations by marriage category can be represented by the archetypic opposition friend or foe. It determines that relationship terms acquire the conceptual characteristics of a friend in the dialect speakers by means of contextual and semantical support, due to their use as a part of paroemia and through lexical, grammatical and word-building means. It determines the duality of relations between relatives by marriage which demonstrates both, retention of stereotype images and scenarios of real life situations and transformation thereof. It proves that, from the ethnocultural point of view, relevant information is communicated via categorization of certain notions of this characteristic by means of concept building features important to the Kuban sub-dialect speakers. It demonstrates that peripheral area is filled with set expressions used for distant relatives nomination, with their main pragmatic feature being the vivid expression of ironic connotation. The conclusion is that the system of relations between relatives by marriage combines both the long-present and transformed linguacultural perception of family and marital relationships among village residents of the Kuban region.

Supporting sustainability projects at neighbourhood scale: Green visions for the San Salvario district in Turin guided by a combined assessment framework

A resilient city includes multiple energy carriers, high-efficiency infrastructure, lower resource demand to decarbonize and sustain the urban system in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the various recovery plans following the COVID-19 pandemic period. To achieve these goals, a key role is played by all urban sectors, which can reduce environmental impacts and accelerate the green transition at larger scale. Intervening on a district scale obviously requires the evaluation of different aspects, taking into account both economic and non-economic criteria, as well as different points of view, involving all stakeholders. This paper proposes a multi-step evaluation procedure that extends the European manual-based Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) to include the extra-economic benefits and the stakeholders’ opinion in the evaluation, according to the COmpoSIte Model for Assessment (COSIMA) method. This is the first application of COSIMA in the urban design sectors (i.e. buildings, water, public lighting, transportation and waste management) where different sustainable measures for a real case study located in Turin (Italy) were compared to define the most suitable transformation scenario according to multiple criteria. The results have shown how invasive scenarios allow achieving the greatest benefits, despite the huge initial costs of realization.

Computational complexity when constructing rational plans for program execution in a given field of parallel computers

Objectives. The construction of rational plans (schedules) for parallel program execution (PPE) represents a challenging problem due to its ambiguity. The aim of this work is to create methods for developing such plans and specialized software for implementing these methods, which are based on the internal properties of algorithms, primarily on the property of internal (hidden) parallelism.Methods. The main method for developing PPE plans was the construction, analysis, and purposeful transformation of the stacked-parallel form (SPF) of information graphs of algorithms (IGA). The SPF was transformed by transferring operators from tier to tier of the SPF (this event was taken as an elementary step in determining the computational complexity of scenario execution). As a transformation tool, a method for developing transformation scenarios in the scripting programming language Lua was used. Scenarios were created by a heuristic approach using a set of Application Programming Interface (API) functions of the developed software system. These functions formed the basis for a comprehensive study of the parameters of the IGA and its SPF representation for the subsequent construction of a PPE plan applying to a given field of parallel computers.Results. Features of the internal properties of the algorithms that affect the efficiency of SPF transformations were identified during the course of computational experiments. Comparative indices of the computational complexity of obtaining PPE plans and other parameters (including code density, etc.) were obtained for various SPF transformation scenarios. An iterative approach to improving heuristic methods favors developing optimal schemes for solving the objective problem.Conclusions. The developed software system confirmed its efficiency for studying the parameters of hidden parallelism in arbitrary algorithms and rational use in data processing. The approach of using a scripting language to develop heuristic methods (scenarios) for the purposeful transformation of IGA forms showed great flexibility and transparency for the researcher. The target consumers of the developed methods for generating schedules for parallel execution of programs are, first of all, developers of translators and virtual machines, and researchers of the properties of algorithms (for identifying and exploiting the potential of their hidden parallelism). The developed software and methods have been successfully used for a number of years for increasing student competence in data processing parallelization at Russian universities.

Grafiteando la arquitectura jurídica colombiana: emergencia de sujetos no humanos y derechos de la naturaleza

The revolution of the rights of nature has presented itself as unstoppable and redefining the legal-political frameworks for understanding the relationship between human beings and nature in Latin America, and Colombia is no exception. This article, from the study of the Colombian case, reconstructs and analyzes the challenging moment that its legal system is going through and defends as a central idea that, far from exemplifying a scenario of radical transformation through law for the recognition of non-human subjects coming from nature, some fleeting emancipations have made their way through judicial decisions in our context, graffitiing the most classic structures of the legal architecture in a permanent struggle against stabilizing reactions.

Pedagogical practice in pandemic times: possibilities and challenges of basic education in the amazonian context from a perspective of creativity

We have experienced a scenario of transformations in education, where a resiginification emerges in the pedagogical practices to meet the reflexes of the covid 19 pandemic. In this sense, we will seek to discuss the context of the Amazon region and the pedagogical practices from the perspective of creativity. The objective is to analyze the current situation in a FullTime School, identifying the possibilities of creative practices in a pandemic context, if these practices that are being projected by SEMD through the Plan for the Resumption of Activities value creativity. We will seek to answer the question: What possibilities and challenges have teachers faced when planning their practice in this online teaching proposal? The research will be by theoretical and empiric al study, qualitative approach, data collection tool questionnaire in Google Forms. The results show that there was no system of collaboration between teachers, school and SEMED at the time of preparation.

Multi-Scenario Simulation to Predict Ecological Risk Posed by Urban Sprawl with Spontaneous Growth: A Case Study of Quanzhou.

The rapid expansion of different types of urban land continues to erode natural and semi-natural ecological space and causes irreversible ecological damage to rapidly industrialized and urbanized areas. This work considers Quanzhou, a typical industrial and trade city in southeastern China as the research area and uses a Markov chain integrated into the patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model to simulate the urban expansion of Quanzhou from 2005 to 2018. The PLUS model uses the random forest algorithm to determine the contribution of driving factors and simulate the organic and spontaneous growth process based on the seed generation mechanism of multi-class random patches. Next, leveraging the importance of ecosystem services and ecological sensitivity as indicators of evaluation endpoints, we explore the temporal and spatial evolution of ecological risks from 2018 to 2031 under the scenarios of business as usual (BAU), industrial priority, and urban transformation scenarios. The evaluation endpoints cover water conservation service, soil conservation service, biodiversity maintenance service, soil erosion sensitivity, riverside sensitivity, and soil fertility. The ecological risk studied in this work involves the way in which different types of construction land expansion can possibly affect the ecosystem. The ecological risk index is divided into five levels. The results show that during the calibration simulation period from 2005 to 2018 the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient reached 91.77% and 0.878, respectively. When the percent-of-seeds (PoS) parameter of random patch seeds equals 0.0001, the figure of merit of the simulated urban construction land improves by 3.9% compared with the logistic-based cellular automata model (Logistic-CA) considering organic growth. When PoS = 0.02, the figure of merit of the simulated industrial and mining land is 6.5% higher than that of the Logistic-CA model. The spatial reconstruction of multiple types of construction land under different urban development goals shows significant spatial differentiation on the district and county scale. In the industrial-priority scenario, the area of industrial and mining land is increased by 20% compared with the BAU scenario, but the high-level risk area is 42.5% larger than in the BAU scenario. Comparing the spatial distribution of risks under the BAU scenario, the urban transition scenario is mainly manifested as the expansion of medium-level risk areas around Quanzhou Bay and the southern region. In the future, the study area should appropriately reduce the agglomeration scale of urban development and increase the policy efforts to guide the development of industrial land to the southeast.

Reuse and Reconversion as Sustainability Paradigm for Marginal Areas Regeneration

Imagining the future has become an increasingly arduous exercise especially if we consider the constant anthropic modifications and their consequences to which the environment is subjected. In the face of climate change, the reduction in land consumption and the energy efficiency of buildings are some of the missions to be pursued to achieve an adequate level of sustainability, in the constant search for inclusive, safe, and durable urban settlements. Trying to rebalance a relationship, which has been compromised for too long, between nature and artifice can only take place through an ecosystem approach capable of promoting conservation, productivity, and resilience. These indications become the tracks to formulate exploratory projects of urban regeneration for marginal territories, linking, through a multidisciplinary approach, the architectural scale and the urban scale. In particular, this contribution addresses the debated topic, especially in the Italian context, of possible sustainable transformation scenarios for inland areas, with a focus on hamlets and villages and reflects on the possibility of working on the resilience of territories either by recovering the heritage of villages for housing purposes or enhancing the ecological–environmental component through renaturalization.

Adattamento e innovazione digitale nei servizi per e con le famiglie durante la pandemia Covid19. Dati sulla Regione Lombardia e dai rapporti CISF 2017-2022

The paper presents an analysis of the digital change that took place in services for and with families during the Covid19 crisis, through the data of a research conducted in the Lombardy Region with 300 families with children, 48 family consulting services and 50 family associations and through a national longitudinal analysis on CISF data in the years 2017-2022 about the families’ propensity to use digital technology for their needs. The picture outlined by the data shows how the Lombard institutions have responded to the families’ experience, characterized by transversal problems, by activating measures to continue offering their services remotely, through internet and the telephone. Families have often adapted to such new and variable answers that in some cases have failed to satisfy their wishes. Social and health services changed from an adaptive perspective, but do not yet appear fully reflective of the long-term impact of the digital help’s offer. In fact, the post-pandemic scenario of strong digital transformation requires the various welfare actors to strategically rethink support for family relationships and to innovate the smartness, accessibility, and diversification of the help’s offer to intervene incisively in the face of aggravated needs and widened inequalities.

Co-Benefits of Energy Structure Transformation and Pollution Control for Air Quality and Public Health until 2050 in Guangdong, China.

In order to mitigate global warming and improve air quality, the transformation of regional energy structures is the most important development pathway. China, as a major global consumer of fossil fuels, will face great pressure in this regard. Aiming toward achieving the global 2 °C warming target in China, this study takes one of the most developed regions of China, Guangdong Province, as the research area in order to explore a future development pathway and potential air quality attainment until 2050, by developing two energy structure scenarios (BAU_Energy and 2Deg_Energy) and three end-of-pipe scenarios (NFC, CLE, and MTFR), and simulating future air quality and related health impacts for the different scenarios using the WRF-Chem model. The results show that under the energy transformation scenario, total energy consumption in Guangdong rises from 296 Mtce (million tons of coal equivalent) in 2015 to 329 Mtce in 2050, with electricity and clean energy accounting for 45% and 35%. In 2050, the transformation of the energy structure leads to 64%, 75%, and 46% reductions in the emissions of CO2, NOx, and SO2 compared with those in 2015. Together with the most stringent end-of-pipe control measures, the emissions of VOCs and primary PM2.5 are effectively reduced by 66% and 78%. The annual average PM2.5 and MDA8 (daily maximum 8 h O3) concentrations in Guangdong are 33.8 and 85.9 μg/m3 in 2015, with 63.4 thousand premature deaths (95% CI: 57.1-70.8) due to environmental exposure. Under the baseline scenario, no improvement is gained in air quality or public health by 2050. In contrast, the PM2.5 and MDA8 concentrations decline to 21.7 and 75.5 μg/m3 under the scenario with energy structure transformation, and total premature deaths are reduced to 35.5 thousand (31.9-39.5). When further combined with the most stringent end-of-pipe control measures, the PM2.5 concentrations decrease to 16.5 μg/m3, but there is no significant improvement for ozone, with premature deaths declining to 20.6 thousand (18.5-23.0). This study demonstrates that the transformation of energy structure toward climate goals could be effective in mitigating air pollution in Guangdong and would bring significant health benefits. Compared with the end-of-pipe control policies, transformation of the energy structure is a more effective way to improve regional air quality in the long term, and synergistic promotion of both is crucial for regional development.

МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ ПРОЦЕСІВ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЙ У МЕХАНІЗМАХ ЗМІЦНЕННЯ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ ПІДПРИЄМНИЦЬКОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ

Consideration of questions in relation to the design of different scenarios of transformations of mechanisms of strengthening of economic security of entrepreneurial activity, that take place on the modern stage of development Ukrainian economy. A research aim by research is development of recommendations in relation to the construction of model of transformations of mechanism of strengthening of economic security, taking into account the indexes of safety of entrepreneurial activity, its different planning, expediency of evaluation and receipt of effective results of their application. The modern doctrines of strengthening of economic security of business and entrepreneurial activity became methodological basis of research. In the conducted researches used methods of dialectics, methods and principles of scientific cognition, instruments of economic analysis for determination the level of transformations and factors that influence on economically safety and the margin of its safety. The basic hypothesis of research is supposition on the choice of such model (or integration to the existent models) of economic security strengthening that will allow to get the sufficient margin of safety for development of entrepreneurial activity. Exposition of basic material of research. The construction of model of transformations process in the mechanism of economic security strengthening is suggested to carry out in a few stages that are related to determination of indexes for the estimation of durability the economic security of businessman and evaluation of efficiency of measures for effectiveness of strengthening of entrepreneurial activity. It is analyzed the existent models of economic security strengthening and its property in the process of transformations. It was reasonable the expediency of choice the index - margin of safety that will allow to find out directions of positive progress of entrepreneurial activity trends for the chosen models of economic security strengthening. Originality and practical meaningfulness of research are confirmed by the offered set of measures and mechanism of choice the models of strengthening, coming from a necessity to keep a certain reserve of durability of entrepreneurial activity for those dangers and risks that arise up on this stage of development Ukrainian economy. Conclusions and prospects of further researches. The conducted research allowed admitting the design of economic security a difficult and different component process with many internal and external factors influence on that. For the construction of effective model of transformation the mechanism of economic security strengthening of entrepreneurial activity maybe to use already existent models of economic security, its integration and authentication to the terms of development of business. Further researches will be sent to implementation of different models of mechanism of economic security strengthening in entrepreneurial activity for the sake of search the most effective in the process of transformation Ukrainian economy in accordance with the terms of martial law and processes of country renewal.

RUHR BÖLGESİ’NDE YER ALAN KÖMÜR İŞLETME TESİSLERİNİN DÖNÜŞÜMÜNDEKİ KISTASLARIN ZONGULDAK ÜZÜLMEZ TAŞKÖMÜRÜ İŞLETME MÜESSESİ İÇİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Coal production, which has a large share among the world's energy resources, has also created an important industry branch in Turkey. The businesses in this area continued their existence within the borders of Turkey from the Ottoman Period to the Republican Period. The Ruhr Area, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which was the pioneer of industrialization movements in Europe in the 19th century, has become the center of coal production. The facilities involved in coal production not only have tangible cultural heritage elements belonging to original production processes and building materials, but also contain intangible elements of the cultural and social life of the society they belong to. With the destruction of coal production in the industrialized countries and the emergence of alternative clean energy sources, it was decided to close these enterprises over time. With this transition, coal mine processing plants located in the Ruhr Region and incorporating intangible and tangible periodical elements have been evaluated within the scope of adaptive reuse as a cultural heritage. In Turkey, on the other hand, coal production maintains its importance among energy sources. Since the economic benefit obtained from coal production is at the forefront, the change and destruction of the building groups in the production area is seen as normal. For this reason, it is important to record and document the coal mine processing plants, which are in danger of extinction. In this context, attention has been drawn to the potential potential of certain construction sites in Zonguldak belonging to the establishments and operating directorates of the Turkish Hard Coal Authority, which can be evaluated within the scope of adaptive reuse examples in the Ruhr Region. The aim of the study is to increase the awareness of these building groups in order to protect the coal-based industrial heritage and to develop criteria that will allow appropriate use transformation scenarios in line with the needs of the region.

On the question of the role of project management in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized businesses: essence and innovative potential

Digital transformation is penetrating all areas of activities. This process is irreversible and poses challenges to businesses. The leading role for the successful digital transformation of small and medium-sized businesses is played by effective project management. The purpose of the article is to study the role of project management in the digital transformation of small and medium- sized businesses, to identify the key issues and the scenario of transformation, to outline the portrait of a project manager. Methods used: analysisб synthesis, graphic methods, the method of establishing cause-and-effect relationships. As a research result, theoretical aspects of project management and trends in understanding its role in the digital transformation of businesses were determined. The key questions for project management are outlined and its scenario is defined. The key skills and qualities of an effective project manager are described. The innovative potential of project management is considered. The scientific novelty of the research consists in clarifying the aspects necessary for effective project management, taking into account the trends in economic and sustainable development. The practical significance of the research results lies in outlining the areas of activity and improving the professional and extra-professional skills of project managers in the process of digital transformation.

Estimation of Digital Transformation in South Asian Economies: An Application of Broad-Spectrum Approach

The study aims to estimate the status of digital transformation (DT) in developing economies. Since there has been a gap in the measurement of digital transformation, this study will help in improving the economic performances of SAARC countries in the future. Herein, a study of the rankings of Digital transformation is being presented by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) using a set of indicators under the prevailing scenarios of digital transformation. Composite digital transformation indicators can primarily be grouped into three dimensions: the financial sector digital transformation, industrial sector digital transformation, and services sector digital transformation. Each identified indicator happens to be independent of the other, which could be easily used to put value (individual) based on accurate statistics coupled with the available observation for each country by using PCA (Principal of Component Analysis). The exercise brought about the results that showed that Bangladesh stands at the top of being the most DT country insofar as SAARC nations are being considered. Subsequently, Bangladesh is followed by Sri Lanka. The Maldives has been found to be at the lowest echelon of digital transformation. However, other countries of the SAARC region have been found to lie in the middle of this research’s spectrum. India and Pakistan have consistently been at the centre slot after considering the results of all four scenarios. This framework provides new vistas of opportunities for the policymakers to put their might regarding digital transformation to good use with a view to bringing other regions up insofar as digital transformation is considered.

A “new tourism cycle” on the Canary Islands: scenarios for digital transformation and resilience of small and medium tourism enterprises

PurposeThis paper discusses plausible future scenarios for small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) in the “sun, sea and sand” destination of the Canary Islands (Spain) and assesses to what extent they are prepared to adjust to market changes and technological developments in the light of both sudden disruptions and long-term shocks.Design/methodology/approachA scenario analysis was made based upon expert interviews, leading to a 2 × 2 scenario matrix.FindingsAlthough regional, national and European strategies advocate digital transformation as a step towards building resilience and towards a more sustainable future, this study identifies two major uncertainties that can put that transformation at risk: a change of the traditional “sun, sand and sea” visitor to a more conscious, individual and inquisitive traveller or “Promad”, and the business culture of SMTEs.Research limitations/implicationsResilience for sudden and for slow-paced disruptions poses different challenges for SMTEs. Their next step in the digital transformation must take them form marketing and sales-oriented e-business to growing interconnectivity and innovation across supply chains.Practical implicationsA market change towards the “Promad” type of traveller causes at least a temporary mismatch of demand and supply. As many SMTEs miss either the knowledge or the resources to invest in digital transformation, the process will depend on support and coordination at destination level.Originality/valueThe study identifies, with the example of the Canary Islands, the difficulties for destinations and individual businesses in making the envisioned transition of mass tourism to more competitive forms of tourism with a smaller ecological footprint.

Low-temperature infrared spectroscopy of the strongly correlated semiconductor Tm0.19Yb0.81B12 with dynamic charge stripes

Tm1–x Yb x B12 dodecaborides represent model objects for the studies of quantum critical behavior, metal–insulator transitions (MITs) and complex charge-spin–orbital–phonon coupling phenomena. In spite of intensive investigations, the mechanism of semiconducting ground state formation both in YbB12 and in the Yb-based strongly correlated electron systems remains a subject of active debates. We have performed first systematic measurements of temperature-dependent spectra of infrared conductivity of Tm0.19Yb81B12 at frequencies 40–35 000 cm−1 and in the temperature range 10–300 K. Analysis of the temperature evolution of the observed absorption resonances is performed allowing to associate these with the cooperative dynamic Jahn–Teller instability of the boron sub-lattice. This ferrodistortive effect of B12-complexes induces the rattling modes of the rare earth ions leading to emergence of both the intra-gap mixed-type collective excitations and the dynamic charge stripes. We estimate the temperature-dependent effective mass of charge carriers and propose the scenario of transformation of the many-body states in the multiple relaxation channels. We attribute the MIT to the localization of electrons at the vibrationally coupled Yb–Yb pairs, which is accompanied by the electronic phase separation and formation of the nanoscale filamentary structure of electron density (stripes) in Tm1–x Yb x B12 compounds.

From Research to Participation: An Attempt to Reset the Post-Soviet Southern Cities of Ukraine

The study analyses the results of the five-month scientific and practical project "South Coast of Ukraine: from research to development" in 2020-2021. The aim is to rethink the development of cities in the Kherson region and find alternative scenarios of spatial transformations that can give impetus to qualitative ecological, socio-economic and socio-cultural changes in cities. The Ukrainian coastal cities of Henichesk and Skadovsk were selected as pilot cities. The study aimed to identify the shortcomings of this project in terms of effective involvement of city residents in project processes and develop proposals for resolving inconsistencies in further work with residents of these and other Ukrainian cities. The study identified the main reasons for the ineffectiveness of the project's impact, among which the main identified the incorrect methodology of participatory work. As a result of the research, it was found that, in the Ukrainian context, it is challenging to conduct participatory work - it turns into imitation. The expert community and entrepreneurship should be the driving forces of change to increase the effectiveness of decisions on urban development; Ukraine's post-Soviet participatory practice needs detailed research, taking into account real political and economic contexts.

“Digital Leviathan”: Scenarios for the Development of the Hobbesian Monster in the 21st Century

In the research, the Hobbesian concept of “Leviathan” is used as a metaphor and a “heuristic scheme” describing the change of epochs and the formation of a new universal scale for innovative forms of socio-political organization. The subject of the research is the phenomenon of digitalization, as well as key changes caused by the digital transformation of public policy and power relations. “Digitalization” is considered as an ambiguous and multilevel phenomenon, reflecting a whole series of cardinal transformations in the sociopolitical life of society, which at the ideological, institutional, instrumental, technological and praxiological levels “clears space” for new forms of social organization. Аrgues that currently there is an acute competition to define, legitimize and promote a certain “projective image of the future” corresponding to the latest socio-political order and normative sociotechnological system (“engineering law”). In particular, the author considers contradictory trends, on the one hand, aimed at preserving and reproducing traditional political institutions, and on the other, related to forming new digital era institutions, digital governance structures and practices of public-power interactions. The research pays special attention to the competition of the state and new digital and technological actors in the political space. It discusses various scenarios of digital transformation of society, state, and government and considers such digital effects in the modern political process as “information noise”, “information overload”, “profile reconfigurations” of relations, the formation of alternative digital spaces (metaverses), as well as their influence on the current political order, power relations, socio-political dynamics.

Comparison of macroeconomic developments in ten scenarios of energy system transformation in Germany: National and regional results

BackgroundDifferent strategies have been proposed for transforming the energy system in Germany. To evaluate their sustainability, it is necessary to analyze their macroeconomic and distributional effects. An approach to do this analysis in an integrated consistent framework is presented here.MethodsComparing ten energy transition scenarios with emission reduction targets by 2050 of 80% or 95%, respectively, allows evaluating a broad range of energy system transformation strategies with respect to the future technology and energy carrier mix. For this purpose, an energy system model and a macroeconometric model are combined, thus re-modeling the unified scenarios. An important extension of the model was concerned with the integration of synthetic fuels into the energy-economy model. One focus besides the overall macroeconomic assessment is the regional analysis. For this purpose, own assumptions on the regional distribution of the expansion of renewable energies were developed.ResultsThe effects on gross domestic product (GDP) and employment are similar on average from 2030 to 2050 across the scenarios, with most of the more ambitious scenarios showing slightly higher values for the socioeconomic variables. Employment in the construction sector shows the largest effects in most scenarios, while in the energy sector employment is lower in scenarios with high energy imports. At the regional level, the differences between scenarios are larger than at the national level. There is no clear or stable regional pattern of relative loss and profit from the very ambitious transformation, as not only renewable energy expansion varies, and hydrogen strategies enter the scene approaching 2050.ConclusionsFrom the relatively small differences between the scenarios, it can be concluded that, from a macroeconomic perspective, it is not decisive for the overall economy which (supply side) strategy is chosen for the transformation of the energy system. More effort needs to be put into improving assumptions and modeling approaches related to strategies for achieving the final 20% CO2 reduction, for example the increasing use of hydrogen.

Mining Industry 4.0 – Opportunities and Barriers

Safety, development, and efficiency are the main slogans that guide modern mines. At the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, they are familiar with innovations and modern technologies that allow them to create innovative solutions and build an environmentally friendly mining sector. The aim of the paper was to assess the feasibility of implementing the assumptions of the industrial revolution 4.0 in the mining industry. Based on the author's own research and literature research, a set of scenarios for the transformation process was developed. After the verification, three alternative scenarios related to the transformation process 4.0 in mines were used for the research. The transformation scenarios were assessed from the perspective of individual stakeholder groups. The NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments), which so far has not been used in the mining industry to assess development scenarios, the method was used to assess the transformation scenarios. The research identified and characterized nine groups of stakeholders. Based on the conducted structured interviews, a set of technical criteria for the assessment of scenarios was defined. The analysis results from the impact matrix and social impact matrix developed for the first time for the mining industry transformation scenarios. Based on the analysis of the impacts of individual factors, it was shown which scenario is the most acceptable for stakeholders and the best from a technical point of view. The research focuses on the deficit of digital competencies and the generational change, as well as the change in the competency requirements of the new type of worker-miner-operator 4.0.

TRAceS: experimental processes to simulate “carbon neutral” urban habitats

This research addresses the issue of process innovation for the transformation of the built environment aimed at carbon neutral objectives in urban space. The design experience is based on a game-based learning approach in which collaborative processes and digital technologies support the performance response of the project actions. The collected information is processed with the intention of configuring a digital serious game as an interactive space where citizen, designer and public administrators can understand and simulate urban transformation scenarios and seek shared solutions that can contain the local ecological footprint as close as possible to the sustainable limit.