This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase the visibility and impact of multi-agent systems as a universal technology and solution. Second, it presents my current thinking on the socio-technical content of the needed infrastructure in four different corners of t...

The purpose of this white paper is to propose a process for identifying common needs for cyberinfrastructure (CI) across the major NSF environmental observatories (NEON, OOI, WATERS Network, LTER, AON, Earth Scope) and the barriers that could prevent construction of shared infrastructure to address those needs. While there are numerous other observatory projects, most notably in the physics and...

Providing a sustainable spatial data infrastructure creates responsibility and high demand by continually meeting and satisfying the needs of all kinds of users. It is essential to provide the right information at the right level of quality and reliability and at the right time. Geographic information (GI) is today being universally recognised as a key part of the national information infrastru...

At a time of great urgency for transitions to sustainability in light climate mitigation targets, energy infrastructure is state flux. Expansions renewable and the persistent grasp fossil fuels over historically centralised sector surface new challenges socio-spatial environmental justice. Where does appear, how this decided, who benefits burdened? What land uses are displaced with what socio-e...

OBJECTIVE Local environmental public health (EPH) is the foundation of a nation's environmental protection infrastructure. With increasing pressure to demonstrate the ability of EPH activities to effectively protect health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in EPH Practice, as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) EPH capacity-building effort, developed the Prof...