One of the indicators that measures economic development a territory is its infrastructural endowment (road, rail, etc.). The presence roads, railways, and airports are essential elements in creating optimal conditions for establishment or productive activities growth; also to generate benefits. However, infrastructure can have strong impacts on environment living population be subject actions ...

Pervasive social computing is a promising approach that promises to empower both the individual and the whole and thus candidates itself as a foundation to the “smarter” social organizations that our new turbulent and resource-scarce worlds so urgently requires. In this contribution we first identify those that we consider as the major requirements to be fulfilled in order to realize an effecti...

Land administration systems, and particularly their core cadastral components, are an important infrastructure which facilitates the implementation of land use policies. While most land administration systems traditionally have a primary objective of supporting the operation of land markets, they are increasingly evolving into a broader land information infrastructure which supports economic de...

The Social Semantic Web is the data space on the Web where human produced information are enriched and modeled using Semantic Web standards. This vision is enabled by the convergence between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 but still, it’s far from be put into practice. Moreover, this miss causes drawbacks such as data redundancies and overhead in the development of social applications. In this paper we dis...

This essay examines the societal dynamics surrounding modern science. It first discusses a number of challenges facing any effort to communicate science in social environments: lay publics with varying levels of preparedness for fully understanding new scientific breakthroughs; the deterioration of traditional media infrastructures; and an increasingly complex set of emerging technologies that ...

Article history: Received 26 March 2014 Received in revised form 9 October 2014 Accepted 10 October 2014 Available online xxxx The sociotechnical systems (STS) approach provides a framework that is well suited to grappling with many issues of work in organizations. By conceiving of work systems as mutually-shaping social and technological systems, the STS approach has provided decades of resear...

The semantic web holds promises for information organization and selective access, providing standard means for formulating and distributing metadata and ontologies. However, we miss a wide use of semantic web technologies on personal computers. The use of ontolo-gies, metadata annotations, and semantic web protocols on desktop computers will allow the integration of desktop applications and th...

We propose a social coordination mechanism that is realized in architecture for physically-grounding agents and supports mass-users' decision making in daily lives. By social coordination, we mean mutual concession by automatic negotiation of software agents, rather than verbal and explicit communication directly done by human users. One of prerequisite infrastructures for such electronic negot...