Publications

Children’s spaces are widening – culturally and socially: socially their spaces are more often multilocal, and culturally they are enlarged through mobility in the globalised and virtual spaces in the mediatised world. Children’s times are also less confined by strict borderlines; the more flexible and individualised use of time in the world of work impacts on children’s lives in families, day care and school. The chapters

of this volume each present particular temporal and spatial aspects of social change in childhood.

The aim of the book goes even further; it is directed toward considering the impact of such change on children’s welfare. As former boundaries between generations begin to blur and neo-liberal forces enter all realms of people’s lives, it can no longer be taken for granted – as it was in former periods of modernity – that continued efforts to realise the childhood project will automatically guarantee the ‘best interest

of the child’. With respect to children’s welfare in time and space, tensions between demands from the market economy, dynamics of rationalisation and technology, and visions of a ‘good’ childhood are discussed in the book.

This volume provides many innovative results which can be the basis for a new global (mobile/terrestrial/satellite) telecommunications systems providing multimedia services at high rates of data transfer.

This book describes the challenges that critical infrastructure systems face, and presents state of the art solutions to address them. How can we design intelligent systems or intelligent agents that can make appropriate real-time decisions in the management of such large-scale, complex systems? What are the primary challenges for critical infrastructure systems? The book also provides readers with the relevant information to recognize how important infrastructures are, and their role in connection with a society’s economy, security and prosperity. It goes on to describe state-of-the-art solutions to address these points, including new methodologies and instrumentation tools (e.g. embedded software and intelligent algorithms) for transforming and optimizing target infrastructures.