Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise to the term. It briefly sets out intellectual provenance of concept social infrastructure, examining different ways being used across geography.

The value of information technology (IT) investment comes increasingly from its ability to complement and enable business strategies and organizational capabilities. As a general purpose technology, however, IT could either a complement or a constraint. Making the right IT investment, particularly the right IT infrastructure investment could thus have far-reaching impact on a firm " s IT invest...

R epairing the infrastructure—it’s not just about bridges and highways. With a new administration taking over in Washington this year, we need to focus our attention on the state of the information technology infrastructure here in the US. The IT infrastructure that has emerged over the past few decades largely drove economic growth during much of the 1990s and enabled our paradigm shift from a...

In the study of animal behaviour, annotation and analysis is largely done manually either directly in field or from recordings. An emerging field, computational ethology, challenging this approach by using machine learning to automate process. However, use such methods general complicated a lack modularity, leading high cost long development times. At same time, benefits implementing fully auto...

The quantification of interdependencies is a major challenge when attempting to analyze the behavior of critical infrastructures. This paper presents a taxonomy of interdependency quantification metrics based on their information content, decision support and risk analysis capabilities, and computational costs. The paper also discusses a systematic approach for computing metrics and performance...

Next Generation Enterprises (NGEs) rely on automation, mobility, real-time business activity monitoring, agility, and self-service over widely distributed operations to conduct business. It is important to study and analyze such enterprises because they will drive the future industry and job markets. This paper gives a quick overview of NGEs and proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing the...