{"title":"The Numerous Challenges of the Post-COVID Economy","authors":"I. Gagnidze","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.2","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented health and economic crises around the world. It has amplified preexisting inequalities and exclusions, both within and between countries and communities. Moreover, the global pandemic has added to the challenges of the digital era, such as emerging and declining jobs, remote working, necessary reskilling and upskilling. Consequently, the number of interrelated problems has doubled. As countries continue to grapple with COVID-19 and navigate the economic fallout, well-designed green stimulus packages can support near-term recovery and enable longer-term power system resilience against future threats. Such a ‘green’ recovery is often defined in opposition to ‘grey’ and ‘colourless’ recovery policies. As over one third of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometres of an ocean, the notion of a ‘blue’ recovery is equally important. In a world driven by uncertainty and change, it is essential to find tools that can mitigate potential challenges and help apply new opportunities. The author of this paper discusses these issues alongside the modern challenges of the education system. Therefore, this paper also covers the role of universities, which need to respond quickly to both current and future challenges.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132996796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utility-based Resource Allocation Under Uncertainty","authors":"D. Gasior, K. Brzostowski, Igor Perko Igor Perko","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.43","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, societies have recently become aware that all decision-making processes are made under huge uncertainty. Since the worldwide situation cannot be compared to any other in the past, it is hard to apply any of the typical descriptions of uncertainty based on historical data. In this paper, the authors try to show how to use expert knowledge of the unknown values of systems parameters to optimise their operation through appropriate allocation of resources and also consider the systems that may be modelled by using the utility theory. Production plants and computer networks are examples of such systems. The authors have modelled the uncertainty with the formalism of uncertain variables and proposed a new approach to the problem of optimising resources with uncertain parameters. A method to solve such a defined problem is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130467572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}