The EU-Brazil co-funded project Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory (FUTEBOL) composes a federation of research infrastructure in Europe and Brazil, develops a supporting control framework, and conducts experimentation based research in order to advance the state of telecommunications systems through the investigation of converged optical/w...

The adoption of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is a challenging task for many IT service provider organizations. Many government organizations in Finland have also started to use ITIL and need help in configuring tools and defining processes. The research problem of this study is: What types of challenges exist in the IT service provider’s customer support? The main contribution of ...

This paper is motivated by a desire to create a user friendly, technically flexible approach to cryptography. This approach can create a flexible design pattern that is useable under a wide variety of circumstances from broadcast media to existing network protocols. This is accomplished by designing a new, key piece of infrastructure used for cryptography key lookup. Once the key is obtained th...

This paper proposes a Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA); a novel operator-independent overlay architecture providing a resilient and reliable service across wide-area networks. Resilience is achieved by combining centralized topology construction control and distributed dynamic mapping of paths onto the overlay topology according to network conditions. ROMCA can mitiga...

We demonstrated a flexible Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) platform built upon the iPlant Collaborative Cyber-infrastructure. The platform supports big data management, sharing, and large scale study of both genotype and phenotype data on clusters. End users can add their own analysis tools, and create customized analysis workflows through the graphical user interfaces in both iPlant Disco...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

The recent emergence of cloud computing has drastically altered everyone’s perception of infrastructure architectures, software delivery and development models. This paper discusses the concept of “cloud” computing with some of the available definitions, SPI framework, and some of the challenges the technology is facing. This paper also includes a brief description of the comparison of Cloud Co...

In the paper, information on economic development trends in developed countries are analyzed. The current status of information society and economy of the country is reviewed and some recommendations are given for future development. The problems of Information Society and establishment of its innovative economy are studied. In this turn, development trends information economy in developed coun...

More than ever before, it is important to maintain the safety and security of citizens, public infrastructure, buildings. This paper is concerned with video surveillance systems. With the growing quantity of security video, it becomes vital that video surveillance system be able to support security personnel in monitoring and tracking activities. In this paper is described new video surveillanc...

This paper proposes the application of the Smart Security Concept in the East Mediterranean. Smart Security aims to secure critical infrastructure, such as hydrocarbon platforms, against asymmetrical threats. The concept is based on Anti Asymmetrical Area Denial (A3D) which necessitates limiting freedom of action of maritime terrorists and piracy by founding safe and secure maritime areas throu...