Publications

COST Action 534 – New Materials and Systems for Prestressed Concrete Structures, abstracts of the workshop on NTD Assessment and New Systems in Prestressed Concrete Structures.

This volume has been produced by COST Action IC1205 on Computational Social Choice, a European research network set up to advance the state of the art in computational social choice by supporting the international research community in this domain.

The present final report describes the result of a 2-year collaborative research effort undertaken within the scope of COST Action C27, through its working Group 1.

The main objective of the conference was to create new knowledge about users’ creativity and facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge is crucial in order to strengthen the European Research Area. Moreover, this requieres an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users’ abilities to shape and use ICTs. In this conference, the organisers invited technology and product developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics, to join the attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground.

Since 2010, the INTIMATE (INTegration of Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records) network has been operating as a COST Action (designated ES0907). This paper outlines the accomplishments of the INTIMATE COST Action in the context of how the INTIMATE ideas have evolved during the network’s twenty-year life span, and highlights a number of challenges that can guide further work. In the second part of the paper, the contributions that compromise this INTIMATE special issue are introduced.