BACKGROUND Reliable access to basic services can improve a community's resilience to HIV/AIDS. Accordingly, work is being done to upgrade the physical infrastructure in affected areas, often employing a strategy of decentralised service provision. Spatial characteristics are one of the major determinants in implementing services, even in the smaller municipal areas, and good quality spatial inf...

This paper proposes a Perceptual Information Infrastructure supporting robots in a real world and shows a distributed vision system for navigating mobile robots as an example of the infrastructure. The perceptual information infrastructure enables to develop a new research direction of robots which are integrated with environments.

The Information Infrastructure (i.e. the ubiquitous infrastructure for electronic data exchange) is progressively occupying a crucial role in society. It interrelates business, government, citizens and other infrastructures among themselves, constituting an unavoidable underlying connectivity element. This requires an exacting reliance to be placed on the services provided by and over the Infor...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in Iran. The study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...

To realize the vision of ubiquitous computing, it is important to develop a context-aware infrastructure which can help ubiquitous agents, services, and devices become aware of their contexts because such computational entities need to adapt themselves to changing situations. A context-aware infrastructure manages the context model representing contextual information and provides appropriate in...

One of the most important aspects of security organization is to establish a framework to identify securitysignificant points where policies and procedures are declared. The (information) security infrastructure comprises entities, processes, and technology. All are participants in handling information, which is the item that needs to be protected. Privacy and security information technology is...