Transdisciplinary approaches to urban computing

Transdisciplinary approaches to urban computing

Welcome to this special issue on transdisciplinary approaches to urban computing. Let us begin by discussing the two titular terms, transdisciplinarity and urban computing, and the reasons these two topics are so closely entwined. Transdisciplinarity as a term is, of course, built from the Latin word trāns, meaning “on the other side of,” and discipline, referring to scientific disciplines. In ...

Object-Oriented Service Clouds for Transdisciplinary Computing

A computing platform includes a programming environment to create applications with a coherent operating system and processor. The Service ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) is an object-oriented cloud platform that targets service abstractions for transdisciplinary complexity with support for high performance computing. SORCER service-commands are expressed in ExertionOriented Language (E...

Vector Approaches to Urban Morphogenesis Modelling

Alternative Approaches to Configuring Computing Labs

Budgetary constraints are almost a constant challenge confronted by academia. In the case of small colleges and universities, these constraints become even more pronounced when these institutions enhance their programs to meet the needs of their constituents. While in some cases program enhancement might simply be accomplished by hiring new faculty members; in others, it might require additiona...

Soft Computing Approaches To Fault Tolerant Systems

-----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------------We present in this paper as an introduction to soft computing techniques for fault tolerant systems and the terminology with different ways of achieving fault tolerance. The paper focuses on the problem of fault tolerance using soft computing techniques. T...