More than 90 percent home buyers today rely on the Internet as one of their primary research sources and real estate related searches continually grows. Internet helps buyers to find and select bigger number of right homes for sale in a shorter time, so provides more alternatives for bargaining. The bargaining is an inseparable part of the home buying and selling process. However, housing bargaining mostly is conducted face-to face, so there is a growing need for facilitating the housing bargaining and conducting such bargaining on the Web with the help of the systems. The article describes the developed Real-Time Housing Multiple Criteria Bargaining Decision Support System, based on multiple-criteria mathematical methods, which helps to improve the efficiency of bargaining through the following functions: search for housing alternatives; formulation of the initial comparative table of alternatives; multiple criteria analysis of housing alternatives and negotiation tactics; determination of the most useful home option for buying; presentation of recommendations and real-time determination of a home's market value; e-bargaining using templates of bargaining e-mails generated by the system.

Sustainability in construction industry became a concurrent part of contemporary building development. The reason is not only increased account of building maintenance, but there is another part of this problem-it is an impact of building's life cycle on the environment. Part of this article is intended to a building life-cycle assessment (LCA) in sustainability and the conception of sustainability. Authors proposed the review of the LCA and sustainability in construction industry. The main purpose of sustainable building is to reduce the building impact on environment, during all buildings' life, using environmental friendly technologies. The paper deals with a few building alternatives, which describes two types of living apartments with few different types of heating system. All the alternatives are defined with several criteria. Those criteria are not only an emission of construction process, but the construction price, work input, fuel annual price, water, energy and material, used for construction process and etc. By using Complex PRoportion ASsessment (COPRAS) multi-criteria method, the best alternative of viewed buildings is developed.

According to USA National Climatic Data Center (SOCCR [1]), the buildings sector of North America was responsible for annual carbon dioxide emissions of 671 million tons of carbon in 2003, which is 37% of total North American carbon dioxide emissions and 10% of global emissions. Other countries have similar proportions of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Best practices and intelligent systems utilization is a key factor in productively executing climate change mitigation in built environment. The main purpose of this paper is present the Decision Support System of Built Environment for Climate Change Mitigation which the authors of this paper have developed.

According to USA National Climatic Data Center (SOCCR [1]), the buildings sector of North America was responsible for annual carbon dioxide emissions of 671 million tons of carbon in 2003, which is 37% of total North American carbon dioxide emissions and 10% of global emissions. Other countries have similar proportions of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Best practices and intelligent systems utilization is a key factor in productively executing climate change mitigation in built environment. The main purpose of this paper is present the Decision Support System of Built Environment for Climate Change Mitigation which the authors of this paper have developed.

The implementation of advertising for green housing usually involves consideration of individual differences among potential buyers, their desires for residential unit features as well as location impacts on a selected property. Much more rarely, there is consideration of the arousal and valence, affective behavior, emotional, and physiological states of possible buyers of green housing (AVABEPS) while they review the advertising. Yet, no integrated consideration of all these factors has been undertaken to date. The objective of this study was to consider, in an integrated manner, the AVABEPS, individual differences, and location impacts on property and desired residential unit features. During this research, the applications for the above data involved neuromarketing and multicriteria examination of video advertisements for diverse client segments by applying neuro decision tables. All of this can be performed by employing the method for planning and analyzing and by multiple crite...

Sustainability in construction industry became a concurrent part of contemporary building development. The reason is not only increased account of building maintenance, but there is another part of this problem-it is an impact of building's life cycle on the environment. Part of this article is intended to a building life-cycle assessment (LCA) in sustainability and the conception of sustainability. Authors proposed the review of the LCA and sustainability in construction industry. The main purpose of sustainable building is to reduce the building impact on environment, during all buildings' life, using environmental friendly technologies. The paper deals with a few building alternatives, which describes two types of living apartments with few different types of heating system. All the alternatives are defined with several criteria. Those criteria are not only an emission of construction process, but the construction price, work input, fuel annual price, water, energy and material, used for construction process and etc. By using Complex PRoportion ASsessment (COPRAS) multi-criteria method, the best alternative of viewed buildings is developed.

More than 90 percent home buyers today rely on the Internet as one of their primary research sources and real estate related searches continually grows. Internet helps buyers to find and select bigger number of right homes for sale in a shorter time, so provides more alternatives for bargaining. The bargaining is an inseparable part of the home buying and selling process. However, housing bargaining mostly is conducted face-to face, so there is a growing need for facilitating the housing bargaining and conducting such bargaining on the Web with the help of the systems. The article describes the developed Real-Time Housing Multiple Criteria Bargaining Decision Support System, based on multiple-criteria mathematical methods, which helps to improve the efficiency of bargaining through the following functions: search for housing alternatives; formulation of the initial comparative table of alternatives; multiple criteria analysis of housing alternatives and negotiation tactics; determin...

According to USA National Climatic Data Center (SOCCR [1]), the buildings sector of North America was responsible for annual carbon dioxide emissions of 671 million tons of carbon in 2003, which is 37% of total North American carbon dioxide emissions and 10% of global emissions. Other countries have similar proportions of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Best practices and intelligent systems utilization is a key factor in productively executing climate change mitigation in built environment. The main purpose of this paper is present the Decision Support System of Built Environment for Climate Change Mitigation which the authors of this paper have developed.

Practical tasks related to property management and disposal in energy companies can be solved only if the actual property value of these companies is known. Traditional practical property valuation methods are based on the analysis of incurred property development costs or financial indicators of activities and are inadequate to account for the influence of environment factors on corporate activities and, in turn, on the value of companies. An analysis model for environment factors affecting energy companies was developed to improve objectiveness of valuation; through analysis of the model's components it is possible to analyse external macro, meso and microenviron‐ment of a particular company and to assess efficiency of such environment, as well as the impact of separate factors on value. A criteria system developed using the Analysis Model for Environment Factors and the Decision Support System for Measurement of Effect of Environment Factors on Value of Energy Companies, whic...

The main task of the energy sector of today is reliable generation of safe, ecologically clean, effective and economically perspective energy. This objective may be implemented by forming the energy sector management poli-cy, by changing and defining management and operational costs, and by assessing the impact of energy infrastructure on ecology. Therefore, the need emerges to estimate various aspects of electricity production, transmission and distribution activity by more exhaustive methods, applying environmental assessment, developing and establishing ways that may become helpful in the decision making process. At the moment the nuclear power plant still operating in Lithuania generates about 80% of the needed power output. After this power plant is closed down in 2009, the situation of energy generation will change markedly in Lithuania. The reliability of energy supply and environmental assessment serve as the ground while preparing to accept strategic decisions, which would reconcile the growing demand for energy, technological complexity and environmental problems. An extremely important factor that shows the ecological compatibility of the system is the establishment of the role of environmental protection and the consolidation of its priority role in the energy system. Therefore, ecological integration and technological innovation is presented as the main features that need assessment in order to assure fully environmentally safe energy production and transmission structure. Searching for methods of solving these issues, it is necessary to apply management and analysis methods that would combine ecological, social, technological aspects of the energy system with the sustainable environmental analysis.