Die Informationsschwemme im WWW und die steigende Bedeutung von Information als Produktionsfaktor motivieren die Notwendigkeit für Information-Brokering. InformationBroker vermitteln zwischen Informationsanbietern und Informationskonsumenten. Broker’s Lounge ist eine Umgebung die den gesamten Information-Brokeringprozeß unterstützt. Zentraler Qualitätsfaktor für Information-Brokering ist ein Do...

Communities are rarely seen as the ideal level at which to focus science communication efforts, compared individual, psychological or mass, societal levels. Yet evidence from allied fields suggests building interpersonal relationships with specific communities over time is key meaningful engagement, so orienting towards warranted. In this paper, we argue case. We review previous studies, identi...

Software engineers need to be able to create, modify, and analyze knowledge stored in software artifacts. A significant amount of these artifacts contain natural language, like version control commit messages, source code comments, or bug reports. Integrated software development environments (IDEs) are widely used, but they are only concerned with structured software artifacts – they do not off...

Abstract This article explores how empowerment‐focused Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) traverse scales and perform brokerage functions in helping rural women from marginal groups to connect influence powerholders Indonesia. It identifies three mechanisms activated by these CSOs: brokering groups' power bases through strengthening organising structures sources of knowledge/resources; spaces f...

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are gaining traction as a research topic. Using longitudinal case study of Norwegian social venture - Nature Magic funded through SIB model, this article explores the embedding process model into local context – diverging from previous focused on empirical cases UK and USA refining aspects SIBs. We show that is embedded three processes: 1) cultivating opportunity; 2) ...

The success of grid computing depends on the existence of grid middleware that provides core services such as security, data management, resource information, and resource brokering and scheduling. Current general-purpose grid resource brokers deal only with computation requirements of applications, which is a limitation for data grids that enable processing of large scientific data sets. In th...

Large-scale simulations often need dynamic access to heterogeneous data resources such as sensors, databases, or other simulations. The Agent-Based Environment for Linking Simulations (ABELS) is designed to facilitate the dynamic formation of a “cloud” of independent simulations and other data resources for the exchange of information. Participants in the data and simulation cloud join and exit...