Sustainable water resources management is essential since it ensures the integration of social, economical and environmental issues into all stages of water resources management. The development and application of water sustainability indices to achieve sustainable water management has been...

Utilities throughout the world are faced with the challenge of how best to manage their existing asset stock to provide satisfactory customer service with limited funds. Effective asset management helps utilities to meet this challenge; however, this requires the utilization of cost-effective...

Emerging Web service and business process technologies have provided technological support for business collaboration across organisation boundaries. However, security concerns have become one of the main barriers that prevent its widespread adoption. The aim of the research is to develop a...

This dissertation is an examination of methods for computing an option price using a path integral framework. The framework, developed by Chiarella, El-Hassan and Kucera, is based on the Black and Scholes paradigm. The path integral is backward recursive with the payoff known at expiry and has...

Reducing the number of annual blockages and the consequential flooding events is one of the most important tasks for stormwater pipe infrastructure managers in Australia. Blockages are more likely to occur with pipes experiencing serviceability deterioration, resulting in a reduction of...

The world?s water resources are rapidly deteriorating due to the combined effects of global warming, climate change, population growth and fast development, posing new challenges to water resources managers. Conflicting objectives and expectations of various stakeholders have led to increasing...

With highly skilled staff, world class-technologies, reliable infrastructure, good regulatory policies, low costs, government and private sector innovation and an abundance of competitively priced raw materials in agriculture, Malaysian is one of the most attractive locations for global...

This thesis considers the predictability of asset prices for financial reserving via a cascade style stochastic investment model for the asset classes of cash, equities and fixed interest. Structural breaks occur in 1947 and 1973 but stability since then means that stochastic investment...