The rapid scale-up of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings has overwhelmed many public health laboratory services already burdened with human resource shortages, an aging and inadequate infrastructure, and a lack of quality systems. There is, however, a growing appreciation of the opportunity to use HIV-related laboratory strengthening as means to strengthen health systems in gen...

System administrators are faced with the challenge of managing and compiling information about deployed systems to ensure the maintenance, scalability, security, and overall availability of the infrastructure systems. Recently, securing and monitoring the deployed enterprise infrastructure systems has taken unprecedented importance due to the added accountability now being placed on managing co...

The need for reduction in power consumption for public facilities has increased after the occurrences of multiple blackout events. In an effort to enable the development of green and smart social infrastructure, this paper introduces a design for a sustainable and efficient transportation system (SETS). For this design, renewable power sources and efficient electric drives are considered to be ...

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Agnieszka Czaplicka, Krzysztof Suchecki, Borja Minano, Miquel Trias, and Janusz A. Ho lyst 3 Faculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland Institute for Applied Computing with Community Code (IAC) Universitat de les Illes Balears. Cra. Valldemossa km 7.5, E-07122, Palma, Spain Netherlands Institute ...

Due to social change and technological progress, new value is created in this current era of open innovation by linking diff erent systems together. A typical example might be a service for calling a taxi at short notice that works by combining smartphone user location data with a vehicle dispatch system. How this interconnection is achieved is key to the use of system interoperation to create ...