The construction of railway infrastructure should be dealt with as a national strategic development programme, which — due to technical, geographical, logistical, and other requirements — is carried out through a number of projects and represents a complex multiple project operation for investors, contractors, and other influential players. The national strategic development programme for the c...

one of the main requirements for providing software security is the enforcement of access control policies, which is sometimes referred to as the heart of security. the main purpose of access control policies is to protect resources of the system against unauthorized accesses. any error in the implementation of access control policies may lead to undesirable outcomes. hence, we should ensure th...

Business processes in the global environment increasingly encompass multiple partners and complex, rapidly changing requirements. In this context it is critical that strategic business objectives align with and map accurately to systems that support flexible and dynamic business processes. To support the demanding requirements of global business processes, we propose a comprehensive, unifying 4...

This paper provides a background discussion of agent -based modeling (ABM) and simulation of strategic scenarios. Causal mapping is introduced as a structured method for situational formulation and analysis of unstructured strategic problems. Causal mapping includes specific processes and analytical approaches offering cognitive modeling support for problem formulation and scenario planning. A ...

This paper is based on the results from the project PROTEUS sponsored by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany under the label of European Commission Initiative ITEA. It presents the architecture and the basic concepts of an integration platform, which constitutes the framework of systems implementing the tasks dedicat...

organizations’ success depends on planning. today, this task iscarried out through a multi-stage process such as defining outlook, devisingstrategies, implementation, performance evaluation, and data analysis andplanning for improvement. on one hand, defining and devising goals, and onthe other hand, implementation and performance evaluation have become themain challenges of top managements. fo...