HTTP is a successful Internet technology on top of which a lot of the web resides. However, limitations with its current specification, i.e. HTTP/1.1, have encouraged some to look for the next generation of HTTP. In SPDY, Google has come up with such a proposal that has growing community acceptance, especially after being adopted by the IETF HTTPbis-WG as the basis for HTTP/2.0. SPDY has the po...

This paper proposes an agent-based model for providing personalized services at specific locations. We describe the concept of LBP-agents, point out benefits of the model, and examine implementation and software infrastructural

In less than a decade, Internet-enabled business-to-business (B2B) commerce has become central to supply chain management. But little is known about the infrastructural competencies required for manufacturers engaged in Internet-enabled activities with downstream business customers. This paper aims to take a first step in operationalizing a set of new, multi-item measures that tap into infrastr...

For many firms, radio frequency identification (RFID) suggests not only a new alternative to existing tracking methods but also a means to a range of previously cost-prohibitive internal control and supply chain coordination innovations. In any event, and even in light of possible external pressures to adopt, the full potential of RFID for an individual firm must ultimately be viewed in conside...

Public and academic discourses about the Polar regions typically focus on the so-called natural environment. While, these discourses and inquiries continue to be relevant, the current article asks the question how to conceptualize the on-going industrial and infrastructural build-up of the Arctic. Acknowledging that the "built environment" is not an invention of modernity, the article neverthel...

This paper explores the dynamics shaping implementation of Nepal’s School Scholarship Programme, an educational assistance programme that provides cash stipends to primary and secondary students marginalised communities. Drawing on fieldwork in four districts – Ilam, Saptari, Lalitpur Jumla this makes two distinct arguments. First, it highlights importance infrastructural power social transfers...