Developing information infrastructure entails changing organizations and institutions. Such changes sometimes proceed relatively smoothly, but often meet with “friction.” This paper describes the development of a national infrastructure for sharing of information among government agencies and highlights how the social, organizational and institutional changes necessary for information sharing h...

Suitable concepts have to be identified or developed that guarantee the effective usability of mobile multimedia information and services. A platform dedicated to the mobile infrastructure that bundles such concepts is currently being developed within the European ACTS project Mobile Media and ENTertainment Services (MOMENTS). The platform will offer multimedia products – information and servic...

Knowledge management (KM) infrastructure is the foundation for managing and embodying valuable knowledge in firms. Based on the resource-based view (RBV) and process level analysis, this study investigates how KM infrastructure influences market interrelationship performance through innovative business processes. The study collected a sample of 126 hospitals in the Taiwanese healthcare industry...

The specifications of automated learning scenarios can lead to advantages for virtual learning environments and important benefits for organizations, although research in this e-learning area has not addressed this issue. To achieve this goal, one requirement is to have an infrastructure able to support the execution of specifications of learning scenarios. This paper presents an open service-o...

In this short note, we give a brief introduction to the status of technology usage in mathematics education in China. We first introduce the government’s effort to build the infrastructure for CAI. Then we discuss representative CAI software systems developed in China. Finally we discuss efforts to integrate technology and education in middle schools, and curriculum developments. 1 Infrastructu...

Possible explanations for the acceptance or rejection of technological innovations have become a crucial topic in research. Depending on the type of technology, a variety of factors affect acceptance motives. This paper looks into the influence of technical-self efficacy (TSE) on acceptance of technology infrastructure. An empirical study (n=137 participants) was conducted to study effects of T...

Contemporary organizations are increasingly dependent on information infrastructures to deliver their services. However, information infrastructures are highly complex and dynamic, which lead to considerable management challenges. This research aims to contribute to our understanding of these challenges through an in-depth investigation of a team responsible for information infrastructure servi...

The orientation on the technical content of a reference model can increase the efficiency of processes in business engineering projects. Despite this, the use of reference models in the field of business engineering has not yet established itself in practice. The article at hand addresses this problem from a pragmatic perspective focusing on the designers‘ needs in specific modeling situations....

The Internet also represents one of the most successful examples of sustained investment and commitment to research and development in information infrastructure. Beginning with early research in packet switching, the government, industry, and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying this exciting new technology. Today, terms like “[email protected]” and “http://www.acm.org” trip ligh...

During the last decade, complex event processing (CEP) has emerged as a technological foundation for many time-critical monitoring applications. CEP is powerful, effective, easy to use and low in costs at the same time. Common CEP applications are for example stock-market analysis, detection of fraudulent credit card use, traffic monitoring and consumption forecasting in power grids. Many appli...