In August of 2007 and December of 2007, North American academic researchers, industry representatives and regulators were invited to meetings in Washington and Minneapolis, respectively, with the goal of forming a Software Certification Consortium (SCC). At the first meeting, objectives were established for the consortium and a certification grand challenge was issued. At the second meeting, al...

The grand challenge for the 21st century is to harness the rapidly accumulating knowledge of Earth’s biodiversity and the ecosystems that support it. Meeting this challenge involves managing two kinds of complexity: the biological complexity of the organisms and the sociological complexity of biological information mobilization. The Flora of North America (FNA) is an authoritative resource to h...

According to the National Academy of Engineering, the list for the Grand Challenges for Engineering are: (1) Make solar energy economical; (2) Provide energy from fusion; (3) Develop carbon sequestration methods; (4) Manage the nitrogen cycle; (5) Provide access to clean water; (6) Restore and improve urban infrastructure; (7) Advance health informatics; (8) Engineer better medicines; (9) Rever...

With the rapid development and advancement in media enable devices and new application digital libraries, news, entertainment etc have emerge a grand challenge that, there is a need for a technique and a framework that can store, manage, search and retrieve the data from the media archive in order to cope with this demand, the researchers are continuously thinking for an effective and efficient...

1 This is one of a number of proposals being discussed in the framework of the UK 'Grand Challenges' initiative of the UK computing research committee (UKCRC).

Emerging field of intimate computing relates to the technologies that aim to mediate affective communication across distance. Conventional telecommunication media are originally designed for collaborations and task oriented goals with the poor support of intimate experiences. Contemporary lifestyle changes leaded to design and adoption of technologies in support of long distance relationships. ...

The increasing diffusion of digital technologies throughout industries and aspects of life is transforming businesses even in areas that always have been dependent on physical materiality. In this paper, by conducting an exploratory Delphi study in collaboration with 19 industry experts, we aim to shed light on the specific managerial challenges associated with the impact of digital transformat...