This paper reports findings from a study of researchers and research-computing support staff. It explores examples of the social relations supporting the adoption, adaptation and domestication of e-Research technologies and e-Infrastructures and makes recommendations for funding organizations, technology suppliers, service providers and institutions.

Implementing organization-wide ICT infrastructures is a challenging endeavor, even more so when the technology in question is both a network technology and raises privacy concerns among employees. This teaching case introduces students to the German insurance provider FINTOP in the final stages of planning its organization-wide roll-out of the Real Time Communication and Collaboration (RTC) tec...

The intensive urban infrastructures including roads, subways and high-speed railways are closely related to the sustainable economic development and social stability, and also supporting spatial distribution of various functions within the city. To ensure the security and sustainable development of transportation, we evaluated the potential of high resolution time-series Interferometric Synthet...

Land administration systems, and particularly their central cadastral components, are an important infrastructure which facilitates the implementation of land use policies. While most land administration systems traditionally have a primary objective of supporting the operation of land markets, they are increasingly evolving into a broader land information infrastructure which supports economic...

in recent century, sustainability has been the most important feature especially in economic, social and environmental issues. so that it has always been the main concern of regional, national and even international planners as the consequent challenges were the main threat to achieving sustainable development of human society. in this study, all aspects of sustainability including environmenta...