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The interest in portfolio management has grown in time, especially due to the economical restrictions of the recent years. Selecting the best portfolio of projects and manage it to reach the strategic goals is therefore crucial, but the criteria ...

The proposed panel demonstrates how viewing hypertext as method and mode of inquiry (rather than simply technology) can foreground synergies between book history, textual studies and computer science, and enhance the scope of research in the wider ...

Gender is encoded in multiple technological infrastructures, most prominently in digital forms across educational, commercial, medical and governmental contexts. To illustrate the pervasiveness of (binary) gender ideologies and the impact this can have ...

This article uses findings from a field study of the world's largest guaranteed employment scheme (NREGA) in India to understand how digital technology mediates work relations and power dynamics within a bureaucracy. In this initiative, upper-level ...

Complexity is increasingly tied into systems of societies, technologies and organizations. As these systems are characterized by non-linear interactions, it becomes more and more difficult to manage, educate, understand and predict their processes and ...

This paper presents a design exploration of opportunities for opening up industrial infrastructures in order to make them supportive of more sustainable and locally adaptive configurations. Taking logistic services in a rural area as a case study, we ...

Infrastructures are group-like objects that make their appearance in arithmetic geometry in the study of computational problems related to number fields and function fields over finite fields. The most prominent computational tasks of infrastructures ...

In crisis situation, there is always a collaborative effort to collect, fuse and analyze large volumes of diversified data and convert it to information that can be used for efficient emergency assessment and management. This paper discusses one way of ...

Open data are expected to bring many advantages. To support the provision and use of open data and to stimulate the realization of these advantages, a variety of open data infrastructures has been released and are under development. The release of these ...

The present paper focuses on the interplay between the organizational dimension of e-government and the development of national e-government infrastructures. The discussion is aimed at clarifying whether and how a decentralized vs. central development ...

Over the last two decades modeling has become a widespread engineering tool. Whereas object-oriented modeling dominated the discussions in software and data engineering, process-oriented modeling became prominent in business process modeling. Experience ...

The notion of after action review (AAR) is known in the military where it is used to develop a common picture of what happened and why. Recently, the concept has been rediscovered by other domains. Obviously, a review within these domains would be ...

Knowledge has become as a key strategic component of economic development. The World Development Report published by the World Bank precisely emphasized: "For countries in the vanguard of the world economy, the balance between knowledge and resources ...

The success of a volunteer computing infrastructure depends on the contributions of its users. An example of such an infrastructure is the Mini-Grid, a local peer-to-peer system used for computational analysis of DNA. The speed of analysis increases as ...

In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children's education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of constructionist learning, and the ClassmatePC, designed by Intel to fit within and ...

We argue for the importance of understanding the human infrastructure in ICTD projects. We do this through two field studies in low-income communities of Bangalore, India---on technology usage in urban slums and mobile media sharing on a wider scale. We ...

Ubiquitous Computing designs infrastructures that weave into the fabric of everyday life, and become invisible by fading in the background. However, this invisibility keeps users from understanding and adopting them. To address this problem we introduce ...

The recent developments in virtualization change completely the panorama of the Hardware/OS deployment. New bottlenecks arise in the deployment of application stacks, where IT industry will spend most of the time to assure automation. VIRTU tool aims at ...

This paper traces the evolution of the Grid and discusses the potential of the Grid as a future infrastructure adapted to the dynamics of global business systems – the global supply chain. Technology challenges facing global business systems are ...

This paper proposes modeling the rapidly evolving energy systems as cyber-based physical systems. It introduces a novel cyber-based dynamical model whose mathematical description depends on the cyber technologies supporting the physical system. This ...