This paper addresses the Regulation on Electronic transactions in the internal market: electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) and analyses this regulatory framework in relation to the pan European eID infrastructure being developed in the FutureID project. The aim of this paper is to identify if eIDAS sets forward any legal requirements that need to be implemented in the FutureID ...

The Context Toolkit (Dey, Salber, and Abowd 2001 [this special issue]) is only one of many possible architectures for supporting context-aware applications. In this essay, we look at the trade-offs involved with a service infrastructure approach to context-aware computing. We describe the advantages that a service infrastructure for contextawareness has over other approaches, outline some of th...

Deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure promises great savings in business transactions costs. But, due to slow transition from socialist economy, Croatia has just begun planning deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure in accordance with recently released national strategy for development of e-Business. Unfortunately, existence of globally competing standards makes decision making much harder. Te...

This paper reports the progress of an attempt to examine how and why complex integrated IT infrastructures, such as ERP systems, impact firm performance. Based on emerging literature on agility, IT management and organizational theories, a conceptual model that describes a nomological network linking IT infrastructure characteristics, organizational culture, agility and firm performance is pres...

Android applications (apps) are highly interactive, but have— by design—no facilities to declare dependencies reflecting such interactions. Dependencies are hidden in code and uncovering them requires static analysis techniques. This technical note presents our static analysis infrastructure to extract dependency information from Android (Dalvik) bytecode. This infrastructure is used in a study...

In this paper we present our vision of an information infrastructure for grid computing, which is based on a service-oriented architecture. The infrastructure supports a virtualized view of the computing and data resources, is autonomic (driven by policies) in order to meet application goals for quality of service, and is compatible with the standards being developed in the technical community....

This document describes components of an infrastructure for open-architecture digital libraries. By its very nature this is a working document. The development of infrastructure is an evolutionary process, involving the input and negotiation of many parties. While technical considerations play an important role, they are mediated or even driven by social, political, economic, and legal influenc...

We propose in this paper, a mechanism for Grid computing frameworks, for specifying environmental requirements that may set and be optimized by deployers. Specified by designers by parameterizing deployment abstractions, the constraints can be dynamically mapped onto the infrastructure. This work is integrated in the ProActive middleware with the concept of technical services. We illustrate thi...

A long-standing problem in the US-Mexico bilateral agenda is migration. Although both countries have important agreements to promote economic exchange and trade, the events of 9/11 and other acts of terrorism have increased concerns about border security. Since the US-Mexico border is one of the most important borders in the world in terms of activity, securing it without interfering with the l...

The pursuit of sustainable large-scale infrastructure systems demands new design tools to exchange information among distributed decision-makers. This paper describes and demonstrates interoperable simulation gaming as a collaborative infrastructure design activity. The Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Game (SIPG) is a prototype implementation using the High Level Architecture (HLA) to excha...