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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Widok, Andi"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Definition of social sustainability criteria for the simulation of OHS in manufacturing entities
    (EnviroInfo & ICT4S, Adjunct Proceedings, 2015) Widok, Andi; Wohlgemuth, Volker
    This paper highlights the common factors of social sustainability criteria with economic and environmental criteria for the modelling and simulation of manufacturing entities. Its intended purpose is to demonstrate how and what kind of social criteria can be integrated in such simulation without having to change the model drastically. In addition, the paper presents the prototype of a plugin, as part of a software suite (MILAN), aimed to provide technical analysts with the means to simulate various sustainability criteria in manufacturing companies. The plugin is intended to enable analyst to freely define relevant social influence indicators as well as influence functions and combine them with the existing environmental and economic modeling approach.
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    Modeling and Simulation of Offshore Wind Farms including the Mapping and Analysis of relevant O&M Processes
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Joschko, Philip; Widok, Andi; Page, Bernd; Appel, Susanne; Greiner, Saskia; Albers, Henning
    This paper describes objectives, approach and preliminary results of the joint-project System Optimization (SystOp) Offshore Wind. It illustrates an outline of relevant maintenance processes required for the operation phase of offshore wind farms as well as on modeling and technical development of a tool that is able to visualize, connect and simulate these processes and combine them with other relevant factors, such as for example stochastic weather generators and other wind farm proprietary aspects. The complexity of relevant factors for the assessment of the quality of offshore wind farms operation only allows for an overview on how to model and assess that quality as a whole. In that regard, this paper will focus on the different stages of depicting and analyzing, from the understanding of relevant players to the interaction between them, the modeling of complex interactions to the visualization in a software and simulation of business processes. In addition, the choices made for different methodologies, such as business process notation BPMN 2.0, or simulation-relevant techniques will be presented, including the given reasons for the choices made.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Social Sustainability: Theories, Concepts, Practicability
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Widok, Andi
    While the concept of sustainability is widely recognized these days, it is questionable how adaptable and how beneficial most of the corporate solutions regarding sustainability management are. It is very likely that most of what passes for mainstream reporting in Corporate Sustainability Management fails to do precisely the one thing it purports to do – which is making it possible for organizations to measure and report on the sustainability of their operations (McElroy, Jorna, van Engelen, 2007). When it comes to the social aspect of sustainability, this problem is even more imminent. The objective of this paper is to give a solid scientific definition of sustainability to get past the fuzzy understanding of social sustainability and to suggest real methods and solutions on how to get the concept more operational. Everything can be conceptualized; however there are reasons why, among others, the Global Reporting Initiative struggles with closing on more globally accepted and lasting definitions for social sustainability and ways to promote it. One of them is in the subject itself. Ethical considerations play into the determination of defined quotients of social sustainability and those differ between different countries, cultures, even from one person to another. Crucially, it is not only the definition of social value/capital that is in question, but the fact that its slow progress inhibits strategies and applicable methods from evolving further.