Book review: Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context

Book Review: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

Identifying and Analyzing Coordination Barriers in the Context of Urban Infrastructure Provision in Iran A Qualitative Multiple Case Study

Introduction: Urban infrastructure systems provide foundations for modern civil communities and enhance the quality of life. Coordination between different urban infrastructure agencies involved in urban infrastructure provision plays a significant role in the success of these critical urban sub-systems. It brings together various independent agencies to make their endeavors more accordant. In ...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Infrastructural Support for Dynamic Context Bindings

Research in context-aware systems shows that using context information enables the development of personalized mobile applications. The context acquisition process in a context-aware (CA) system consists of two main roles: context producing entities (e.g. wrapped sensors) and context consuming entities (e.g. CA application). A CA system can be seen as a hierarchy of associated context producers...

Dynamic context bindings - Infrastructural support for context-aware applications

The world is increasingly equipped with high-capacity, interconnected, mobile and embedded computing devices. Context-awareness provides an attractive approach to personalize applications such that they better suit the user’s needs in this rich computing environment. Context-aware applications use context information, offered by context sources, to adapt their behavior to the situation at hand....