Call for Papers Hurricane Katrina (2005) devastated New Orleans thereby revealing inherent vulnerabilities that resided in the socio/political/ecological/technical infrastructure (system) of the city and the nation. The event highlighted the ‘...city’s fragile physical environment, aging infrastructure, and declining economic and social structure’ (Comfort, 2006:1). Comfort (2006:2) asks the qu...

Call for Papers Hurricane Katrina (2005) devastated New Orleans thereby revealing inherent vulnerabilities that resided in the socio/political/ecological/technical infrastructure (system) of the city and the nation. The event highlighted the ‘...city’s fragile physical environment, aging infrastructure, and declining economic and social structure’ (Comfort, 2006:1). Comfort (2006:2) asks the qu...

Transformations of established institutional orders are to be expected alongside the appearance of novel ICT-enabled models of service delivery. Such transformations are neither simple nor short-term, but involve complex and fundamental changes in normative, regulative, and technical aspects. In this paper we describe the initial stages of a project redesigning psychiatric services for children...

Large physical networks of interrelated infrastructure components support modern societies as a collaborative system with significant technical and social complexity. Design and evolution of infrastructure systems seeks to reduce wasted resources and maximize lifecycle value. Interdependencies between constituent systems call for an integrative approach to improve interoperation but many existi...

There is considerable effort to cover the broad variety of types of risk including natural disaster risk, technical disaster risk, biological disaster risk, transport and energy, research and innovation, critical infrastructure protection, cross-border health threats, implications for the health service systems, environmental impact assessment, green infrastructure, integrated coastal managemen...

This paper presents the C2 Enterprise Reference Architecture (C2ERA), which is a new technical concept of operations for building information systems better suited to the NCW environment. The C2ERA is the technical architecture mandated by the Designated Acquisition Commander for C4ISR Enterprise Integration in the U.S. Air Force. The C2ERA contains two key ideas. Related activities and functio...