Using software agents as next generation flexible components and applying reuse technologies to rapidly construct agents and agent systems have great promise to improve application and system construction. Whether built on conventional distributed computing and application management platforms, on a specialized agent platform, on web service technology or within a P2P infrastructure, agents are...

This paper presents REAL (Remotely Accessible Laboratory), a virtual laboratory accessible through the Internet. The objective of REAL is to provide remote access to a mobile robots infrastructure. REAL has been implemented as a new generation telecommunication service, not as a commonplace World Wide Web (WWW) application. As such, it employs a sophisticated access framework, a communication i...

EVALSO (Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories) is an international consortium of nine astronomical organisations, and research network operators, part-funded under the European Commission FP7, to create and exploit high-speed bandwidth connections to South American observatories. The paper, after describing the genesis of the project and the selection and construction...

Infrastructure facilities need to be planned and constructed in such a way not only to change the vulnerable conditions of the infrastructure facility itself but also the society, the economy and the environment. Literature emphasises that integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) to planning processes is a key to reduce natural disaster losses, boost socio-economic development needs and ens...

Twentieth-century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure in the form of dams, aqueducts, pipelines, and complex centralized treatment plants to meet human demands. These facilities brought tremendous benefits to billions of people, but they also had serious and often unanticipated social, economical, and ecological costs. Many unsolved water problems remain, and pas...

For the diversity of users demand for information services in converged network environment, a solution was proposed with the combination of cloud computing technology and domain engineering, in which three stages starting from the domain engineering include service-oriented domain analysis and modeling, domain architecture design based on cloud computing infrastructure and construction of serv...

In this paper we describe the network infrastructure we designed, built and operated for the International Mathematics Olympiad in the Netherlands in 2011. The infrastructure was pragmatically designed around OpenVPN tunnels in a star topology between the various venues. VLANs were extensively used to separate functional groups and networks. The actual construction of the event network took abo...

Standard cross-national measures of corruption are assembled through surveys. We propose a novel alternative objective measure that consists of the difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for public capital stocks. Where the difference is larger between the monies spent and the existing physical infrastructure, mo...

Natural disasters continue to plague the United States, undermining the nation’s ability to build disaster resilient communities. Although structural and non-structural mitigation measures are currently in place to lessen the impact natural disasters have on society, little attention has been given to the construction of green infrastructure as a sustainable hazard mitigation strategy. The purp...

We present an approach to collaborative software development where obtaining components and contributing components across organizational boundaries are explicit phases in the development process. A lightweight generative infrastructure supports this approach with an online package base, and several generators that simplify the construction and composition of component packages. The infrastruct...