Despite all the attempts of modern information technology to supplant paper by sophisticated electronic devices, paper is still omnipresent in virtually any office environment. We have learned over the last decade that paper is an indispensable part of our daily work and that even the latest computers are not able to mimic its functionality. Today, paper and computer are coexisting side by side...

In this Chapter, we consider interconnection of IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled network clusters. We discuss two types of interconnections. One type can be achieved by using PAN coordinator node as the bridging device and the other type is achieved by using ordinary network nodes as bridge nodes. We discuss design and performance issues of both kind of interconnections.

Dealing with data necessitates understanding data, which can be facilitated by analyzing its metadata. This metadata is often not readily available, and thus, needs to be extracted and collected. This activity is called data profiling and is well established and researched in the literature. However, what is missing is a structured description of a holistic data profiling process, that puts tog...

From autonomous and grassroots political movements, to transition initiatives or the broad range of „nowtopias“ (Carlsson and Manning, 2010), learning and innovation seems to be taking place at a pace never seen before. However, such projects are often too loose and disperse to be able to significantly develop learning processes and promote civic engagement in complex political issues. Degrowth...

This study develops a conceptual framework of alignment between business and IS strategies. Bridging two dominant perspectives in alignment literature, it proposes an integrative framework of socio-intellectual alignment that fills the theoretical gap in business-IT alignment research. The socio-intellectual framework of alignment explains how the business-IT alignment can be accomplished socia...

The perceived lack of connection between global environmental problems and an individual’s immediate context is among the main reasons why people prove resistant to changing their decisions and actions towards a more sustainable way of life. By bridging this gap and better relating individual behavior to its local and global consequences, properly designed eco-feedback technology may evoke intr...

In this paper, an approach using the European Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM), in the context of the NISTIR 7628, is presented. Research has shown that both models and methodologies have particular impact, but have not yet been put into mutual context. The combination of these models makes it possible for US smart grid experts to re-use the SGAM model and its benefits, and vice versa Europ...