This is a summary of the workshop that was held as part of the ICT4S conference with a focus on the topic of social practices and smart grids. Here we present an overview of the five invited paper contributions to the workshop, as well as a summary of the plenary discussion, and our final conclusions. Keywords—sustainability; ICT; social practice theory; smart grid; design

This paper gives a brief introduction into Java for smart card; it outlines the basic concepts, the architecture of Java cards and the surrounding system, and briefly sketches security issues. It is argued that Java smart cards form a novel platform for applications in the customer’s wallet, that is well suited for applications in the context of Electronic Commerce.

The smart grid is a promising technology of the next-generation electrical systems which involves wireless networks. Such Long Term Evolution (LTE), which has been proposed and developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), is expected to be a preferable technology due to its high data rate and low delay. Due to the fact that smart grid requires real-time communications, scheduling...

There are numerous times when a C ++ user could beneet from a pointer variant that has more functionality than is provided by the basic, language-deened pointer. For example, type-accurate garbage collection, reference counting, or transparent references to distributed or persistent objects, might be implemented with classes that provide pointer functionality. The C ++ language directly support...

Humanitarian aid workers caring for Syrian refugees face major stressors as they attend to refugees' needs on the field. Without adequate psychosocial support, evidence has shown that fieldworkers experience high burnout and turnover as well as long-term poor mental health. Unfortunately, scarce training in this regard leaves them ill-equipped to care for themselves and practice resilience whil...

This paper aims to review systems and applications for power line communications (PLC) in the context of the Smart Grid. We discuss the main applications and summarise state-of-the-art PLC systems and standards. We report efforts and challenges in channel and noise modeling, as well as in the development of transmission technology approaches. Keywords— power line communication, smart grid.

Recent technology advances support the interconnection of smart things, enabling their communication according to the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. This paper discusses how the opportunities offered by such technologies can be amplified, by offering to the end users the possibility to define the behavior of their smart objects according to paradigms that capitalize on well-established appr...

reaching an electricity system which is both economically efficient and environmentally friendly is motivating countries to design and execute different types of tou demand response programs. but there are certain deficiencies which prevent these programs to effectively modify the load shape. smart grid as a means could help the electricity system to reach the highest demand side management ...

2 Foreword This report is the result of a study of the research field smart textiles, which has been carried out within the EU financed Baltic Fashion Project. The report gives an overview of projects combining smart textiles and clothing as a basis of discussions of how smart textile innovation could be introduced in fashion. The overview covers different projects, research as well as commerci...

BACKGROUND The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program seeks to conquer well-understood challenges in medical informatics through breakthrough research. Two SHARP centers have found alignment in their methodological needs: (1) members of the National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision-making (NCCD) have developed knowledge bases to support problem-oriented summ...