It has been reported that electrical engineering schools might be facing a decline in newly
enrolled students combined with an increase in the number of dropouts due to motivation …

Integrating social and sensor networks can transform big data, if treated as a knowledge
commons, into a higher form of collective awareness that can motivate users to self-organize …

Many open networks, distributed computing systems, and infrastructure management
systems face a common problem: how to distribute a collectivised set of resources amongst …

This chapter discusses a set of possible business models that traditional utilities or new
entrants can deploy in order to succeed in the changing energy market. The business …

We are increasingly seeing computer systems which are expected to function without
operator intervention. This is perhaps acceptable for running computer networks or traffic …

The proliferation of sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing has provided the
technological push for a new class of participatory-sensing applications, based on sensing …

Introduction There are (at least) three reasons to model and simulate a social system. First,
to understand and explain how the social system works, for example, to investigate the effect …

In applying the methodology of sociologically-inspired computing to the idea of self-
governing institutions for common-pool resource management, an algorithmic basis for self …

We consider a basic model for two-hop transmissions of two information flows which
interfere with each other. In this model, two sources simultaneously transmit to two relays (in …

The PetaJakarta. org project aims at advancing our capacity to understand and promote the
resilience of cities to both extreme weather events as a result of climate change and to long …