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Towards an information infrastructure for the grid

IBM Systems Journal, 2004
In this paper we present our vision of an information infrastructure for grid computing, which is based on a service-oriented architecture. The infrastructure supports a virtualized view of the computing and data resources, is autonomic (driven by policies) in order to meet application goals for quality of service, and is compatible with the standards ...
Serge Bourbonnais, Vitthal M. Gogate, Laura M. Haas, Randy W. Horman, Susan Malaika, Inderpal Narang, Vijayshankar Raman   +6 more
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When is an information infrastructure? Investigating the emergence of public sector information infrastructures

European Journal of Information Systems, 2010
Drawing on the notion of information infrastructure as a relational concept, this paper endeavours to highlight the links between data standards and institutional facts. Although social science studies have emphasised the interplay between socio-technical factors, the author suggests that such approaches have overlooked the role that institutional ...
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Building an Information Technology Infrastructure

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2008
Information technology is considered a potentially transformative element in the field of health care by payers, providers, vendors, and consumers alike. Because of this transformative potential, health information technology (HIT) adoption is viewed by many as a key component of health system reform.
Melissa M, Goldstein, David, Blumenthal
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Infrastructural Innovation and Generative Information Infrastructures

2015
This chapter addresses issues related to how to enable the broadest possible innovative activities by infrastructural technology design. The authors focus on the development of high-level services based on mobile telecommunication technologies that for matters of simplicity are termed the development of a Mobile Internet.
Ole Hanseth, Petter Nielsen
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Markets, standards, and the information infrastructure

IEEE Micro, 1993
The author presents a synthesis of thinking within the economics field about network development and standardization. The analysis focuses on understanding economic factors shaping important contemporary events and the development of standards in tomorrow's information infrastructure.
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An Information Infrastructure For The Pharmaceutical Market

Health Affairs, 2004
The primary contribution of Joseph Newhouse's paper is to make the point that it is impossible to devise a drug pricing policy that satisfies either the conditions for economic efficiency or prevailing standards of "fairness." Not specifically mentioned by Newhouse is a rule for the socially efficient outlays on selling and marketing by the ...
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The Spatial Information Infrastructure as Part of the Information Infrastructure

2008
Bo Overgaard, Thorben Hansen
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The information infrastructure

2010
An overview of the structural and policy components of the research information infrastructure.
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THE BOUNDARIES OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES: AN INTRODUCTION

2014
This essay shows in an analytical way the conceptual consistence and the impact of such concepts as Information Infrastructures, Boundary Object and Boundary Infrastructures, broadly mobilizing international literature on these topics.
MONGILI, ALESSANDRO, GIUSEPPINA PELLEGRINO   +1 more
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Information infrastructure

IEEE Network, 1987
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