information and communication technology (ict) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. benefits of ict and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. at present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ictba...

Brandon Newell, MD, is Assistant Professor; and Kimberly A. Horii, MD, is Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. Address correspondence to: Brandon D. Newell, MD, of Missouri-Kansas City, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, 2401 Gilham Road, Kansas City, MO 64108; fax: 816-983-6710; or e-mail: [email protected]. Dr. Newell and Dr. Hori...

Flexible loads, i.e. the loads whose power trajectory is not bound to a specific one, constitute a sizable portion of current and future electric demand. This flexibility can be used to improve the performance of the grid, should the right incentives be in place. In this paper, we consider the optimal decision making problem faced by a flexible load, demanding a certain amount of energy over it...

WDAqua is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) that employs 15 PhD students overall. The H2020 work programme aims at increasing citizens’ participation in the digital society and making infrastructures “smart”. These processes are increasingly data-driven. Our central motivation is that sharing, connecting, managing, analysing and understanding data on the Web will enable...

All forms of e-government are integrated in an organizational structure defined by the institutional arrangements of the specific state. Thus when using e-government applications to make the government smarter it has to be contextualized in the specific structure of government. A common institutional arrangement is to divide governments into different levels – a multi-level government system. T...

The Internet of things (IoT) , sometimes referred as Internet of objects can be stated as an environment in which any physical things or objects are assigned with unique addresses and an internet connection to communicate to external objects or people without requiring any human intervention. In year 2014 around three billion people around the world are reported to use internet for using social...