Our study evaluates the public funded programme “Innovationsforen” supporting young innovation networks in the Neue Länder at their very beginning. We obtain insights in early network formation processes influenced by public funding and consulting and study the relationship between network characteristics before and after the funding. Through this the study provides insights in the short and lo...

Participation in electronic business networks has become necessary for the success of enterprises. The strategic business needs for participating multiple networks simultaneously and for managing changes in these networks are reflected as new requirements for the supporting computing facilities. The web-Pilarcos architecture addresses the needs of managed collaboration and interoperability of a...

At the University of Helsinki there are two collaborative networks of expertise leading and supporting the development of teaching: the senior lecturers in university pedagogy and the e-learning specialist network. Both networks are based on the guidelines in the university Programme for the development of teaching and studies for the strategy period 2007-2009. The strategic goals, organization...

According to current China’s energy situation, multiple energy resources, autonomous and nonautonomous energy region and spatial distribution feature, we study network security by using n 2D lattices with multiple support-dependence relations, which are under random attack. The result suggests that lattice model becomes more robust and secure as the fraction of autonomous nodes increases. And, ...

objectives: the present study aimed at studying the health status of the elderly supported by imam khomeini relief foundation in birjand in 2007. methods & materials: this descriptive analytical study was done on 250 elderly people who were supported by imam khomeini committee in birjand. for data collection the comprehensive health questionnaire of the elderly was used. the questionnaire was f...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is working on extending the traditional TCP/IP model for supporting multimedia and real-time applications on the Internet. Thus, new protocols have been developed such as the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). At the same time, there has been a growing interest in using Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. In the near future, when the Internet with mul...

Ambient Networks (AN) aim to embrace the heterogeneity arising from different network technologies such that it appears homogeneous to the potential users at the level of network service provisioning. This paper focuses on the employment of a State Transfer Module (STM) in AN for enhancing mobility and minimising the impact of multimedia service discrepancy (e.g., security, session continuity) ...