Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise profit generation are allowed to construct venues of consumption in its place. Though their physical appearance may resemble traditional public space, in reality, they are greatly restrictive and diminished in affordability, accessibility and social…
Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted expert on pedestrian design and planning, this handbook contains examples of zoning codes from d…
edited by Xueyan Tang, Jianliang Xu, Samuel T. Chanson.
by Phillip James Tabb and A. Senem Deviren.
hal. 669-682
Data-Based Applications -- to OGSA-DAI Services -- Using OGSA-DQP to Support Scientific Applications for the Grid -- Mobile Agent-Based Service Provision in Distributed Data Archives -- A Proxy Service for the xrootd Data Server -- A Flexible Two-Level I/O Architecture for Grids -- Data Driven Infrastructure and Policy Selection to Enhance Scientific Applications in Grid -- BioApplications -- M…
A Generic Process for Requirements Engineering -- System Modelling for Requirements Engineering -- Writing and Reviewing Requirements -- Requirements Engineering in the Problem Domain -- Requirements Engineering in the Solution Domain -- Advanced Traceability -- Management Aspects of Requirements Engineering -- DOORS: A Tool to Manage Requirements.This second edition follows quickly on the ?rst…
Basic Distributed Computing Technologies -- Fundamentals -- Basic Communication Services -- High Assurance Communication -- Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model -- Styles of Client/Server Computing -- CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture -- System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication -- Web Technologies -- The World Wide Web -- Major Web Technologies -- Web…
Invited Talks -- New Directions in PVM/Harness Research -- Towards a Productive MPI Environment -- Components of Systems Software for Parallel Systems -- Virtualization in Parallel Distributed Computing -- Tutorials -- Advanced Message Passing and Threading Issues -- Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach -- Algorithms -- Some Improvements to a Parallel Decomposition Technique for Training Suppo…
Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries -- Urbanism and Sustainability concept -- Energy & Sustainability Concept.This edited volume consists of three parts. It is a culmination of selected research papers presented at the second version of the international conference on Improving Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries (ISCDC) and the second version of the international conferen…