Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

This essay deals with the unique influence that physics and physicists have had on U.S. federal policy since World War II. I identify some "lessons learned" from the last six decades and speculate about the future of U.S. physics and physicists as advisors to future presidents.

The Contact Hypothesis has long been considered one of psychology’s most effective strategies for improving intergroup relations. In this article, we review the history of the development of the Contact Hypothesis, and then we examine recent developments in this area. Specifically, we consider the conditions that are required for successful contact to occur (e.g. cooperation), investigate basic...

Purpose – To explore the current literature base of critical success factors (CSFs) of ERP implementations, prepare a compilation, and identify any gaps that might exist. Design/methodology/approach – Hundreds of journals were searched using key terms identified in a preliminary literature review. Successive rounds of article abstract reviews resulted in 45 articles being selected for the compi...

A major challenge faced by human societies is to promote development that truly makes difference for people without jeopardizing their environment. This particularly urgent in developing countries where, despite decades of programs, local populations often live under poverty thresholds. With this study, we participate the ongoing debate about necessary global revision theory and practice rural ...

It is vital to understand what kind of processes for learning that Geovisual Analytics creates, as certain activities and conditions are produced when employing Geovisual Anlytic tools in education. To understand learning processes created by Geovisual Analytics, first requires an understanding of the interactions between the technology, the workplace where the learning takes place, and learner...

This paper wishes to introduce new concepts to be applied for future Internet generations. These concepts are based on the introduction of some intelligence in a policy-based networking environment. We first describe a policy-based networking environment and some new protocols allowing an easy control of the QoS and the mobility. Then, we describe the I3 platform able to support some intelligen...

Since recent work shows that there exists long-term correlation in traac of both local and wide area networks, not only in traditional data traac but also in newly emerging video traac, it is likely that future Internet may have to support traac that has long-term correlation. It is therefore important to understand impact of traac correlation on network performance. This paper presents a solid...