She has written a series of monographs on the development of large-scale infrastructures for a nonprofit organization created by Robert Kahn, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol that is at the heart of the Internet.
Large-scale infrastructures are notoriously difficult to build and to manage, and governing them is rife with challenges.
The current trend in system development is integrating already-existing systems in order to realize large-scale infrastructures.
After the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, government agencies were eager to attract private capital to develop large-scale infrastructures and stimulate national economies.
Different energy qualities such as electricity, heat/cooling energy, gas and oil are distributed via large-scale infrastructures and show widely different ranges and distribution densities.
Data preprocessing is the second important phase of big data processing, and it must be preprocessed before storage at large-scale infrastructures [19].
Concern about the impact of the environment on health and well-being has tended to focus on the physical effects of exposure to toxic and infectious substances, and on the impact of large-scale infrastructures.
The largest possible subsamples lead to three related visions of a substantially transformed electricity system dominated by decentral, small and medium-scale solutions coexisting with some centralized, large-scale infrastructures.
This is why analysis of standards and infrastructure work is of utmost importance if we are to understand the possibilities and limits of biobanks' governance and the way in which donors, samples, and data are becoming bio-objectified within large-scale infrastructures today.
