Building on broad discussions between many universities, this paper presents a research agenda based on a holistic, comprehensive view of the issues. It proposes that our infrastructure is a system of systems involving different technical manifestations and social organizations. The implication is that we need a fundamental reconsideration of how we look at system design, away from traditional ...

The fabric of scholarly communication is undergoing radical change. Economic, legal, and technical tensions are straining traditional publisher and journal models. New technologies provide unexplored opportunities for new scholarly communication models. At Cornell Information Science we are exploring this problem from the perspective of social and technical interaction. Our work therefore invol...

The technical infrastructure is of crucial importance for modern society and electric power supplies are of particular importance. Society's dependence on electrical energy, communications and information technology is increasing. At the same time users, both industry and households, have overconfidence in technical infrastructure functionality and little preparedness for outages in the power n...

This paper began its life as an unpublished technical review [20] of the proposed Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) as described in the papers, ”The Physiology of the Grid” [1] by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey Nick and Steven Tuecke, and ”The Grid Service Specification (Draft 2/15/02) [2]” by Foster, Kesselman, Tuecke and Karl Czajkowski, Jeffrey Fry and Steve Graham. However, much h...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the components of distance education in rural areas in order to provide a model in secondary schools in the country. Methodology: The combined research method was exploratory. In the qualitative part of the study, content analysis with inductive approach was used. Research environment in this section, 84 documents including 67 articles and books, ...

The national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) and GIS maturity of user organisations are mutually dependent. Only when the GIS maturity of user organisations is at a high level can they direct their needs to the development of an NSDI and the benefits of the NSDI come true to their full extent. To raise their GIS maturity to a level where user organisations can both utilise spatial data compr...