133 research outputs found
Scottsdale Community College Provides their Students Open Access with End-to-End Virtualization
Due to shrinking budgets and new demands for technology, Scottsdale Community College (SCC) IT department needed an effective, sustainable solution that would provide ubiquitous access to technology for students, faculty, and staff, both on- and off-campus. This paper explores how SCC implemented a complete virtualized computing environment
Geospatial Data for Sustainable Development in Mozambique: Challenges on Spatial Data Infrastructure Development & Ecosystem Service Integration in Decision Making
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information SystemsThe Agenda 2030 challenges the countries to use and produce new spatial data to support the
path to Sustainable Development (SD). This requires development and adoption of Spatial Data
Infrastructure (SDI), and the production of new relevant spatial data to support implementation,
monitoring and reporting the progress on the targets on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The importance of access to spatial data for development and resource management is widely
acknowledged worldwide. Unrestricted, reliable and efficient access to accurate, timely, and upto-
date spatial data may be achieved through a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Thus, most
developed countries implemented and continue to develop their SDI. The Ecosystem Service
(ES) is also crucially for SD and the concept needs to be expressed and communicated effectively
to be successfully integrated into decision making. This study assessed the challenges and
opportunities on SDI development and analyzed the documents relevant to LUP process and
implementation. On the SDI, we identified and characterized through a survey the government
institutions producing, sharing, and using spatial data in the country to estimate their potential
contribution to the development of the Mozambican SDI. On the integration of ES into LUP, we
conducted a review of relevant documents to Mozambiqueâs spatial planning by performing a
content analysis based on ES categories. Based on the possible contribution of the institutions
producing and using spatial data, we proposed an SDI for Mozambique based on four pillars: i)
organizational framework; ii) legal framework; iii) technical framework; and iv) accessibility. The
periodical revision of tools and participatory approaches in LUP opens opportunities for
integrating ES into LUP processes. This integration could be achieved by establishing a SEA legal
framework based on LUP and Environment legal frameworks assisted by a set of common
planning tools that consider ES as an additional indicator applied to spatial planning in
Mozambique
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Problem solving methods in a global networked age
We believe that the future for problem solving method (PSM) derived work is very promising. In short, PSMs provide a solid foundation for creating a semantic layer supporting planetary-scale networks. Moreover, within a world-scale network where billions services are used and created by billions of parties in ad hoc dynamic fashion we believe that PSM-based mechanisms provide the only viable approach to dealing the sheer scale systematically. Our current experiments in this area are based upon a generic ontology for describing Web services derived from earlier work on PSMs. We outline how platforms based on our ontology can support large-scale networked interactivity in three main areas. Within a large European project we are able to map business level process descriptions to semantic Web service descriptions, to enable business experts to manage and use enterprise processes running in corporate information technology systems. Although highly successful, Web service-based applications predominately run behind corporate firewalls and are far less pervasive on the general Web. Within a second large European project we are extending our semantic service work using the principles underlying the Web and Web 2.0 to transform the Web from a Web of data to one where services are managed and used at large scale. Significant initiatives are now underway in North America, Asia, and Europe to design a new Internet using a 'clean-slate' approach to fulfill the demands created by new modes of use and the additional 3 billion users linked to mobile phones. Our investigations within the European-based Future Internet program indicate that a significant opportunity exists for our PSM-derived work to address the key challenges currently identified: scalability, trust, interoperability, pervasive usability, and mobility. We outline one PSM-derived approach as an exemplar
Service-Oriented Architecture for Patient-Centric eHealth Solutions
The world is in shortage of about 7.2 million healthcare workers in 2013, and the
figure is estimated to grow to 12.9 million by 2035, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO). On the other hand, the median age of the worldâs population
was predicted to increase from 26.6 years in 2000 to 37.3 years in 2050, and then to
45.6 years in 2100. Thus further escalating the need for new and efficient healthcare
solutions.
Telehealth, telecare, and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions promise to
make healthcare services more sustainable, and to enable patients to live more independently
and with a higher quality of life at their homes. Smart homes will
host intelligent, connected devices that integrate with the Internet of Things (IoT)
to form the basis of new and advanced healthcare systems. However, a number
of challenges needs to be addressed before this vision can be actualised. These
challenges include flexible integration, rapid service development and deployment,
mobility, unified abstraction, scalability and high availability, security and privacy.
This thesis presents an integration architecture based on Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) that enables novel healthcare services to be developed rapidly by
utilising capabilities of various devices in the patientsâ surroundings. Special attention
is given to a service broker component, the Information Integration Platform
(IIP), that has been developed to bridge communications between everyday objects
and Internet-based services following the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) principles.
It exposes its functionalities through a set of RESTfulWeb services, and maintains a
unified information model which enables various applications to access in a uniform
way. The IIP breaks the traditional vertical âsiloâ approach of integration, and handles
information dissemination task between information providers and consumers
by adopting a publish/subscribe messaging pattern.
The feasibility of the IIP solution is evaluated both through prototyping and testing
the platformâs representative healthcare services, e.g., remote health monitoring
and emergency alarms. Experiments conducted on the IIP reveal how performance
aspects are affected by needs for security, privacy, high availability, and scalability
Prediction assisted fast handovers for seamless IP mobility
Word processed copy.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).This research investigates the techniques used to improve the standard Mobile IP handover process and provide proactivity in network mobility management. Numerous fast handover proposals in the literature have recently adopted a cross-layer approach to enhance movement detection functionality and make terminal mobility more seamless. Such fast handover protocols are dependent on an anticipated link-layer trigger or pre-trigger to perform pre-handover service establishment operations. This research identifies the practical difficulties involved in implementing this type of trigger and proposes an alternative solution that integrates the concept of mobility prediction into a reactive fast handover scheme
Spectrum Policy and Management
This project provides an examination of the FCCâs policies towards spectrum reallocation. The project examines the National Broadband Plan and how the FCC has approached the goals described within it. The demand for broadband communications has increased dramatically in recent years and has resulted in a predicted spectrum deficit in the near future. In addition to a number of spectrum auctions and their winners the project examines how the redistribution of spectrum impacts the broadband community. The project also provides an examination of spectrum reallocation and policy in other countries, to provide a broader view of spectrum policy. Finally the project examines new spectrum technologies and spectrum usage policies to further examine how the USâs spectrum policies should evolve
Water in the Arab World
This volume is intended to serve as a water handbook. It represents the collective knowledge about water resources management acquired over recent years, both within the World Bank water team and with counterparts working in the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East (MNA). The chapters offer a cornucopia of ideas and themes. Some chapters are based on background papers prepared for the 2007 "MNA Development Report on Water." Others draw on sector work prepared at the request of client countries. Yet others summarize observations based on study tours or other learning events sponsored by the World Bank. Upon reviewing this lodestone of embedded knowledge, we realized that bringing together our observations and analyses could serve a useful purpose for public officials, other practitioners, academics, and students who are interested in learning more about the complexities of managing water resources management in one of the driest parts of the world
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