Frank Schipper: Music 2.0: Fast Operas and Virtual Choirs
Music today is deeply affected by infrastructures. Retailers and the music industry feel the heat of new competitors offering free (and paid) listening, such as Grooveshark, Jango, Pandora, Spotify, or Youtube.
Most road authorities in this survey are outsourcing a major portion of their routine maintenance activities except for a few states in the USA, with Florida DOT (FOOT) being the main exception. Maintenance via some form of contract varies between countries and varies with which activities are included in the contracts. more
To ensure that services are fulfilled by infrastructures it is extremely important to understand how reliable networks really are and how robustly networks will respond to different types of perturbations. more
Exploring and exhibiting a variety of complex adaptive systems approaches to infrastructure, Next Generation Infrastructures and the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium are bringing together leading scientists, engineers and economists from their programmes to discuss the state-of-the-art in modelling change and adaptation in infrastructure systems. more
Igor Nikolic, Zofia Lukszo and Koen van Dam from the section Energy en Industry from the faculty Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft recently publiced the book Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. more