Ad-hoc networking capabilities have provided the flexibility needed to construct various types of networks without infrastructure base stations. Emerging products for sensor networks, such as Zigbee (1), use ad-hoc networking capabilities to construct networks. These sensor nodes can construct the network such as in outdoor fields and inside buildings without much effort on establishing the bas...

It is generally recognized that an organization's information technology (IT) infrastructure can facilitate organizational change, particularly when the information needs of the business process are clearly defined and the capabilities of the IT infrastructure fully explored. Unfortunately, firms engaged in business process redesign (BPR) often struggle to meet these two conditions as outmoded ...

It is well touted that embedding information technology (IT) capabilities in supply chain processes would allow firms to derive competitive advantage. Yet the outcomes of such embeddedness vary greatly across companies. Investigating how a firm configures appropriate IT capabilities with supply chain integration (SCI) to achieve superior performance is of significance. Drawing upon the dynamic ...

Information technology infrastructure (ITI) is said to play a significant role in knowledge management (KM) efforts. Yet, there is little research that focuses on how availability and use of IT infrastructure enable or constrain KM efforts. To explore this, we conducted an empirical study in six research organisations in subSaharan Africa. We compared the availability of IT infrastructure and i...

The architecture of a digital library service system strongly influences its capabilities. In this paper we report our experience with the OpenDLib system, which is based on a service-oriented architecture, and we describe how, in the attempt to better satisfy the user requirements, we decided to develop a digital library service-oriented infrastructure on Grid. We also briefly introduce this i...

Grid computing is a next level of infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities with variety of shared resources. In this high end computing infrastructure job scheduling is a complex one due to grid infrastructures. This proposal gives a detail analysis of various scheduling algorithm based on different criteria su...

Active networking is a general approach to incorporating general-purpose computational capabilities within the communications infrastructure of data networks. This paper studies the key design issues that must be resolved to allow active networking to become a mainstream technology.

The paper introduces a Universal Plug and Play based discovery and management toolkit that facilitates collaboration between cloud infrastructure providers and users. The presented tools construct a unified hierarchy of devices and their management-related services, that represents the current deployment of users’ (virtual) infrastructures in the provider’s (physical) infrastructure as well as ...