At the heart of many recent efforts to improve Internet security are a group of security protocols such as S/MIME, TLS, and IPSec. All of these protocols rely on public-key cryptography to help provide services such as confidentiality, data integrity, data origin authentication, and non-repudiation. Support for this public-key cryptography is provided by a Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI. The...

A main characteristic of a Virtual organization Breeding Environment (VBE) is the set of competencies that it can offer to the market and society. The VBE competencies are defined in this paper through the competencies of three main VBE information components, such as the VBE member, the Virtual Organization (VO) formed in the VBE, and the VBE itself. Typically competencies appear as a part of ...

We describe a type of data mining system designed to screen events, build profiles associated with the events, and send alerts based upon the profiles and events. These types of systems are becoming known as alert management systems (AMS). We give some examples of alert management systems and give a quick introduction to their architecture and functionality.

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Although there is much research on strategic alignment, cross-domain alignment, that is bridging externally focused competitive strategies with internal focused IT processes, remains largely untouched. In view of this gap, we aim to shed light on the relationship between IT management profiles and business strategies linked by unique IT business value profiles. Building on prior literature, we ...

Displacement of oil and water in porous media of reservoir rocks is described by relative                      permeability curves, which are important input data for reservoir performance simulation and drive mechanism studies. Many core studies, such as multiphase relative permeability, capillary pressure and saturation exponent determination, depend on the volume fractions of multiphase flui...

This paper describes an approach for automated user profile generation within the framework of knowledge management systems. Based on the recognition of the importance of knowledge management, especially within R&D driven companies, the goals of the research project McKnow at the KULeuven are discussed. One aspect of this project, namely automatic user profile generation, is focussed on. In thi...