of developing enterprise Information Technology architecture. An EA focuses on a holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are used for within an organization. An enterprise architect develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the business as well as to assess, select, and int...

In this paper, we introduce SAKE, a STREP Project sponsored by the European Union starting March in 2006. The overall objective of SAKE is to specify, develop and deploy a holistic framework and supporting tools for an agile knowledge-based e-government that will be sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing and diverse environments and needs. We give a brief overview on the SAKE approach inclu...

Businesses may be described as holistic systems of interacting processes. Beer’s Viable System Model is a complete formulation of such a set of processes necessary for a business to be sustainable in a volatile, changing environment. The Viable System Model can be used to describe a process architecture for the IT capabilities required to support a sustainable business. This paper explores this...

The SOCRATES FP7 research project provided fundamental research in the area of Self-Organizing Networks (SONs), including a concept on SON-Function coordination. The presented coordination concept contained a detailed description of a coordination architecture, required components and their functionalities. This document combines the information from multiple sources as for example publications...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is essential for both pubic and private organizations as it provides a holistic approach to align information technology with business objectives. EA implementation is a multidisciplinary, complicated, and endless process. Therefore, successful EA implementation calls for highlyskilled personnel possessing diverse competencies. During the last years a few attempts h...

Modern techniques treat color images as separate monochrome images for processing. Partly, because there is no straightforward generalization of linear filters available for color. However the algorithms yield more accurate results when the correlation among color bands are exploited which shows fundamental difference to process the color images. Earlier work[8] reported the transformation of t...

Current Knowledge Management (KM) design approaches recognize the importance of integrating codification, personalization, and collaboration strategies. Incorporating various database systems, search functions, managerial support, performance appraisal, personalized widgets, and case summaries into seamless functions are exemplary efforts. However, KM is rarely integrated with organizational le...

Fast growth of Internet has brought some security concerns. One of these security concerns is Botnet. Bot and Botnets are new sophisticated kind of malware that is equipped with advanced features and have variety of applications. This paper reviews the current botnet detection frameworks and their advantages and drawbacks. To address the drawbacks we propose a conceptual holistic Botnet Detecti...

An Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a holistic view of an enterprise. In creating or changing an EA, multiple decisions have to be made, which are based on assumptions about the situation at hand. In this thesis, we develop a framework for reasoning about changing decisions and assumptions, based on logical theories of intentions. This framework serves as the underlying formalism for a rec...