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Natural disasters represent a typical large-scale dynamic environments. As governments are more and more relying on sensors to monitor natural disasters, many related research problems have to be tackled, in particular the sensors relocation. In this paper we propose to plan the sensors relocation in a virtual geographic environment (VGE) which is synchronized with the real environment (where the...
This demonstration illustrates PhotoNet, an image delivery service for mobile camera networks. PhotoNet is motivated by the needs of disaster-response applications, where a group of survivors and first responders may survey damage and send images to a rescue center in the absence of a functional communication infrastructure. The protocol runs on mobile devices, handling opportunistic forwarding (when...
This paper presents a description of major principles of federated testbed for public safety communications activities, its concept, structure, objectives, and trial scenarios.
M-GBCP is a new topic in the field of e-GBCP, and regarded as the application of wireless communication technology and computer technology in the public management, which provides public service for the public through mobile terminal and network technology. This paper examines provision of public service based on mobile communications technology.
For wheelchair users and their care workers activities that are part of the daily fabric of life can be distressing. Taking a short trip to the local shopping center, post office or bus station can be filled with problems, obstacles that may not cause any hindrance to a pedestrian will cause problems or even hinder progress all together for a wheelchair user. The ubiquity of mobile phones coupled...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) plays an essential role in today's public administration. Countries, which are in the phase of recovering from conflicts and reinstating key functions of state administration, benefit from the utilization of ICT in order to offer services more quickly and efficiently to their citizens. This case study describes and discusses an ICT based solution Crisis...
The paper reports a study on the implications of virtualized working structures for employee self-determination and organizationally beneficial outcomes. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze survey data of N = 1009 employees in a German public administration. Mobile telecommuting was associated with higher levels of task-related autonomy, whereas home-based telecommuting predominantly...
This paper forms part of a series of investigations into the key success factors for mobile government services (mGovernment) in Australia, Jordan and the United Arab Republic. The case study in this paper concerns a large city council in Queensland, Australia and provides valuable insights into the adoption of mobile government services. A table of success factors, that should prove useful to other...
E-government is the use of information technology to enhance access to and delivery of government information and services to the public for effectiveness, efficiency and quality government operations. An effective e-Government service depends on a clear vision, mission and strategy to facilitate service delivery in all parts of the country especially in the rural areas where infrastructure is a challenge...
Mobile E-Government is a new E-Government application model developed based on the traditional E-Government. Through the construction of mobile E-Government, the governments of Wuhan urban circle can fully break through the limits of time and space and provide convenient and highly efficient public services to the city clusters within a circle whose radius is 100 km. This paper, through a study on...
Most people are stressed out and overstrained after accidents even if no one is hurt. Consequently, they may face some difficulty in reporting the accident to the police and civil defense, or they may provide them with inaccurate information about the location of the accident. Moreover, even if they were able to provide the necessary information it may take them some time to deliver it to a human...
This paper studies mobile devices mediated electronic voting system based on the distributed Pailler's encryptions; We apply the standard cut-of-the-choose technique to avoid the computational zero-knowledge proofs and show that the proposed scheme is efficient yet somewhat provably secure in the simulation-based paradigm.
The security of a complex site is strongly dependent on the use of integrated technological systems. Any weakness of the integrated system involves a weakness of the security of the site itself. For this reason it is necessary to design and realize highly integrated, efficient and reliable security systems. The authors illustrate the work made to design and realize the integrated security system of...
With the development of mobile communication technologies (MCT), non-tech factors show more significant impacts in the process of innovation diffusion and service utilization in the ubiquitous network society. To analyse the individual acceptance of mobile communication technology (MCT) from the cultural perspective, a novel model is proposed based on Hofstedepsilas theoretical framework. In this...
Assistive technology so far has been focusing on promoting greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks on a personal basis. Assistive technology that leverages networks of caregivers, who may be nomadic or even remain on the go constantly, has not been developed into useful services or even explored systematically. In this paper, we first propose a general architecture...
Based on the current situation in rural China, the present paper analyzes several mobile communication approaches to the realization of informatization in these areas, which include "rural information service", "rural information device", "rural supply & marketing service", "rural government affairs service" and "agricultural wireless monitoring system"...
Short message service communication, i.e., the number of short text messages is continually growing. The reason for that lies in the fact that more and more people have access to modern digital communication technology that is becoming more user-friendly and budget-priced. There are various uses of modern mobile communication technology and available infrastructure in solving practical problems. By...
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