With the advent of increasingly powerful computational architectures, scientists use these possibilities to create simulations ever-increasing size and complexity. Large-scale environmental systems require huge amounts resources. Managing in an operational way becomes complex difficult handle for individual scientists. State-of-the-art simulation infrastructures usually provide necessary resour...

A question of central importance for researchers and practitioners is whether Information Technology (IT) can help build a competitive advantage in constantly changing environments. One characteristic of a firm’s IT infrastructure in particular, flexibility, has been posited as being a critical enabler in attaining competitive performance gains. Yet, despite this suggestion, there is scarce emp...

d: M.A. of Business Management. University of Isfahan . [email protected] e: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences , [email protected] Knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. Understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

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Enhancing organizational Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes (KIBP) for gaining competitive advantages is often performed through Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives. These KM initiatives aim at developing organizational KM infrastructure of KIBP, starting from knowledge audit that is a necessary first step in any KM initiative. Current knowledge audit methods address either technological-...

The survivability of critical infrastructures is not assured today because of their reliance on complex, vulnerable information systems. Survivability enhancement will require changes to system architectures. Experimental systems research in this area is complicated by the private ownership, criticality, and complexity of infrastructure systems. A key research method is therefore to explore and...

This paper presents a mathematical foundation and a rewriting logic infrastructure for the execution and property verification of synchronous set relations. The mathematical foundation is given in the language of abstract set relations. The infrastructure, which is written in the Maude system, enables the synchronous execution of a set relation provided by the user. By using the infrastructure,...

The proliferation of RF-based indoor localization solutions raises the need for testing systems that enable objective evaluation of their functional and non functional properties. We introduce a testbed infrastructure for automatized benchmarking of RF-based indoor localization solutions. The infrastructure leverages a robotic mobility platform which serves as a reference localization system an...

With the advent of hand-held computing devices, the need for collaborative applications has become more urgent. In order to allow for the design of collabo-rative applications, a common infrastructure for the sharing of data is required for mobile devices. Such an infrastructure should be built for devices that have low compute capabilities and have low bandwidth, high latency network connectio...