Internet was designed about thirty years ago, and used as an academic communication and research platform for researchers at universities and research agencies of the United States at that time. However, with the great development and improvement of science and technology and many surprising inventions like desktop, laptop, mobile phone, PDA, intelligent sensor and so forth, Internet has evolve...

In Internet robot systems it is necessary to overcome the challenges of the limited bandwidth, indeterminate transmission delay, and potential data loss in order to make use of its cost effective functionality. With most systems focusing on these challenges, fault tolerance issues have not yet been addressed systematically in Internet robotics. The work described in this paper focuses on the de...

In this paper, the feasibility of current internet framework for future usage is investigated. Internet has been a huge success. However, the scale of its use has given rise to issues and challenges which were not taken into account when it was created. There is a strong perception in the research community that current internet framework is not adequate to meet the current needs and challenges...

the adoption and use of digital forms of direct-to-consumer advertising (also known as “edtca”) is on the rise. at the same time, the universe of edtca is expanding, as technology on internet-based platforms continues to evolve, from static websites, to social media, and nearly ubiquitous use of mobile devices. however, little is known about how this unique form of pharmaceutical marketing impa...

Innerhalb der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) hat sich eine Gruppe auf die Suche gemacht nach den „Grand Challenges“ der Informatik. Eine "Grand Challenge" so der Versuch einer Definition stellt ein grundsätzliches Problem in der Informatik oder für die Informatik dar, dessen Lösung mit InformatikHilfsmitteln einen deutlich spürbaren Fortschritt in ökonomischer, sozialer oder gesellschaft...

The growing computational power requirements of grand challenge applications has promoted the need for linking highperformance computational resources distributed across multiple organisations. This is fueled by the availability of the Internet as a ubiquitous commodity communication media, low cost high-performance machines such as clusters across multiple organisations, and the rise of scient...

electronic banking has been around for some time in the form of automatic teller machines and telephone transactions but with the advent of internet, more publicity has been witnessed. this issue of internet has equally given a new look to their transactions and mode of product delivery in banking services for the benefits of both the customers and the banks. the objective of this paper is to f...

We find ourselves surrounded by a rapidly increasing number of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Two grand challenges arise from this development: Machine Ethics and Machine Explainability. Machine Ethics, on the one hand, is concerned with behavioral constraints for systems, set up in a formal unambiguous, algorithmizable, and implementable way, so that morally acceptable, restricted beh...

Informatik ist mittlerweile ubiquitär, auch oder vielleicht gerade in der Landwirtschaft. Das Interesse an der Agrarinformatik stagniert dagegen eher, ist vielleicht sogar rückläufig. Indizien hierfür sind die Mitgliederzahlen der GIL aber auch Streichungen von Professuren mit dem Schwerpunkt Agrarinformatik an Universitäten, wie zuletzt im Jahre 2012 in Kiel. Es scheint somit eine Diskrepanz z...

During the last decade, pilot studies and focused projects have established the efficacy of the Internet in developing nations;1 however, connectivity remains uncommon and it is generally slow and unreliable.2 The developing nations are too poor to attract sufficient capital to build modern Internet infrastructure.3 The activity of the past decade has had positive results. All governments are n...