New trends like The Internet of Things, Wearables and BYOD pose new challenges to existing IT infrastructure and applications. Especially the increasing amount and heterogeneity of devices demands changes on existing IT systems. Further degrees of automation are required to successfully operate existing IT infrastructure and applications. Many students try to individualize the existing services...

Group support systems impose specific requirements on the underlying infrastructure regarding communication, configuration and data management. In this paper we concentrate on computer-supported cooperative work in the area of software development. We present the main principles of an experimental toolset for cooperative software development, outline specific demands on the underlying infrastru...

This paper describes the development of two rural broadband infrastructure initiatives. This development is a bottom-up development of broadband infrastructure. Individuals, businesses and public sector have joined forces and have taken an initiative to develop and operate local broadband infrastructure. The initiatives faces a different set of challenges depending on the local context. The two...

D evelopment of social and economic infrastructure in every region is of the basic requirements of economic growth. Infrastructure stimulates economic activity, enhance the productivity of private sector’s inputs, improve economic performance and thus sustainable economic development, enhancing the social welfare and better income distribution. Since the different kind of infrastruct...

This report reviews the status of Japanese R&D in human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies and applications. It covers fundamental HCI research; R&D and applications in computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), information network services and infrastructure, consumer devices and entertainment interfaces, technology and tools for people with disabilities, nuclear power, robotic manufac...

In order to exploit the adaptability of a SOA infrastructure, it becomes necessary to provide platform mechanisms that support a mapping of the variability in the applications to the variability provided by the infrastructure. The approach focuses on the configuration of the needed infrastructure mechanisms including support for the derivation of the infrastructure variability model.

This paper presents Haggle, an architecture for mobile devices that enables seamless network connectivity and application functionality in dynamic mobile environments. Current applications must contain significant network binding and protocol logic, which makes them inflexible to the dynamic networking environments facing mobile devices. Haggle allows separating application logic from transport...