The past decade has seen the accelerated growth and expansion of large-scale data centre operations across world to support emerging consumer business computation needs. Built out rapidly, these emergent digital infrastructures carry promise for new local industrial futures, all while their paths obsolescence are shortened. Their lifespans dependent on financial speculation, shifting corporate ...

This article highlights the problems of determining infrastructural factors in system socioeconomic and cultural development regions. Using systemic synergetic approaches, methods analysis synthesis, induction deduction, comparative analysis, it is justified that a term “infrastructure” its modern sense basis economic components, internal organization, which guarantees integrity. At same time, ...

PREFACE This manual describes how to use SAINF: a toolbox for analyzing the effect of infrastructural features on the distribution of point-like non-infrastructural features. SAINF is part of the results obtained from the six year (1998-2003) project entitled " Spatial Information Science for Human and Social Sciences " funded by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We express our thanks to Exceed Co. Ltd. for...

The 6th IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2010) continues a successful series started five years ago at IEEE PerCom. The workshop aims to address issues of pervasive computing in combination with new types of learning, teaching and working. Based on first results and practical experiences regarding tools and applications presented at previous PerEL workshops it focuses th...

Based on an analysis of the heterogeneous systems for interconnecting distributed infrastructural devices, such as low-bandwidth sensor/actuator-networks and upcoming multimedia home networks, the paper proposes an integrating architecture for accessing various infranets via intranets and the Internet as well as telecommunication networks. Its modularity allows the rapid creation of new applica...