This study aims to develop a novel methodology to prioritize the construction of new railway infrastructures for privatization. The private sector can cooperate to solve the capacity problems of railway networks, by the construction of new infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to answer the basic question that whether the capacity problems of the railway networks can be solved simply by ...

E-business in construction is not just about trading products on-line, as e-commerce was originally defined. It covers all aspects of relationships with clients, contractors, suppliers, and partners within the construction supply chain. It also includes procurement, intra-team collaboration, handling value added services like transportation, warehousing, infrastructure, and multiparty transacti...

Beginning with the current situation of agricultural information construction in Jiamusi area, the achievements obtained from agricultural information construction are clearly known by discussing current work conditions. On the basis of thorough investigation, the existing problems of agricultural information construction are found. The reasons of these problems are analyzed in detail, and then...

Traditionally, the analysis of sector interdependencies has involved the characterization of all infrastructure-to-infrastructure interconnections and some of the main infrastructure integrals that, once lost or be tampered with, will compromise the performance and security issues with the other interconnected infrastructures. Therefore, the paper dwells much on the security implications which ...

The goal of the work presented here is to introduce community-driven ontology management as a new approach to ontology construction and demonstrate the added value to community portals of being community driven. The three main parts of the work are (i) the development of a framework allowing and motivating collaborative ontology construction and reuse for the end users (a person or a community)...

The infrastructure construction is playing an important role in the development of Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt, whereas a calculation and analysis on the relative efficiency of its 6 cities’ infrastructure investment will offer a useful reference to the decision on the future investment scale and structure of this area’s infrastructure. Based on DEA model and from the viewpoint of constant s...