From contaminated water pipes to social media manipulation sinking cities, infrastructures increasingly appear at the heart of cultural, political, and environmental crises. As a technique governance, delegate control systems disperse power into environment. This special issue argues that engaging with infrastructural politics requires new tactics modes analysis which take seriously articulatio...

Extreme weather events are one of the main causes large-scale power outages in distribution systems. The changing climate has led to an increase frequency and severity these events, which, if not mitigated, expected lead more instances widespread severe societal economic damages that ensue. Protecting grid against such which high impact yet low frequency, requires a paradigm shift design practi...

This paper proposes an agent-based model for providing personalized services at specific locations. We describe the concept of LBP-agents, point out benefits of the model, and examine implementation and software infrastructural

For many firms, radio frequency identification (RFID) suggests not only a new alternative to existing tracking methods but also a means to a range of previously cost-prohibitive internal control and supply chain coordination innovations. In any event, and even in light of possible external pressures to adopt, the full potential of RFID for an individual firm must ultimately be viewed in conside...

Public and academic discourses about the Polar regions typically focus on the so-called natural environment. While, these discourses and inquiries continue to be relevant, the current article asks the question how to conceptualize the on-going industrial and infrastructural build-up of the Arctic. Acknowledging that the "built environment" is not an invention of modernity, the article neverthel...

PREFACE This manual describes how to use SAINF: a toolbox for analyzing the effect of infrastructural features on the distribution of point-like non-infrastructural features. SAINF is part of the results obtained from the six year (1998-2003) project entitled " Spatial Information Science for Human and Social Sciences " funded by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We express our thanks to Exceed Co. Ltd. for...