IPTS Technical Report Series
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), part of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, has recently published a series of Technical Reports covering a variety of subjects. The IPTS is charged with the observation and follow-up of technological change in order to understand its links with economic and social change. The IPTS Technical Reports series covers the following topics addressed by the IPTS: - Innovation diffusion and political control: The politics, economics and technology of cogeneration (EUR 16443); - The method of fuzzy scenarios: Principle and application to the future of congestion in urban centres (EUR 16444); - Neural networks: A tool for analysing real world complex systems (EUR 16445); - Knowledge extraction from data using genetic algorithms (EUR 16446); - Industrial efficiency - A literature synthesis (EUR 16447); - Sustainability and technology: a framework for discussion (EUR 16457 EN); - New technologies and employment: highlights of an ongoing debate (EUR 16458 EN); - Survey of current projects for plastics recycling by chemolysis (EUR 16459 EN); - Technology options for plastics waste management: conference proceedings (EUR 16460 EN).