(Re)Connecting Borders: Functional and institutional integration in relation to the urban pattern of the cross-border Euregio Maas-Rijn

The Euregio Maas-Rijn can be considered a Polycentric Urban Region (PUR), a region that consists mostly of medium and small-sized cities. The region is divided by three national borders, but the opening of European borders has enabled the region to cooperate more. PUR’s have access to the same level of agglomeration benefits as a single, large...

SPINE: Software platform for computer supported co-operative work in heterogenous computer and software environments

In development of High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) for simulation applications several targets have to be realized. It is recpiired to maximize not only computational speed but also to maximize applicability in engineering environments. For applications in which HPCN-based simulations are economically and technically necessary...