With thousands of miles of unprotected borders, tens of thousands of critical power generating plants, chemical processing units and other hazardous manufacturing facilities, and hundreds of thousands of miles unprotected roads and rail, electric, gas, and telecommunications lines, the United States is impossible to protect completely against terrorist attack. In addition to military action aga...

It is widely recognized that eCommerce represents a critical resource for most business organizations. With over 1.25 billion people and double-digit economic growth, China could potentially emerge as the largest Internet and telecommunications market in the world if certain economic, environmental, and organizational barriers are effectively addressed. This paper develops a descriptive profile...

A current major focus in the DoD involves the integration of information across the different military branches for operations. Network-centric information methods will enable efficiencies through the integration of best-of-breed software and hardware from each branch of the military, together with the latest advances from government laboratories and the private sector. Information merging will...

Corporate portals o!er organizational users the ability to access a wide variety of information sources directly from the desktop. By functioning as an underlying Web infrastructure for information management, portals can provide "rms with a shared information work space that facilitates access to information content, organizational communications, and group collaboration. To foster the develop...

Mobile agents are a useful paradigm for the development of complex Internet applications. However, the effective development of mobile agent applications requires suitable models and infrastructures. This paper proposes an organizational approach to the design and d evelopment of mobile agent applications and describes an infrastructure designed to support such approach. The approach models the...

We believe a source of dynamic organizational processes poised for exponential growth is B2B electronic commerce. In addition to serving as aggregators of product information, all major electronic marketplaces (i2, Ariba, CommerceOne, et al.) are developing infrastructure for the sharing of business process definitions and the augmentation of inter-organizational workflows. XML frameworks for t...

The development and connection of information and communication technologies with industrial control systems in the so-called critical infrastructure have contributed to the emergence of new complex threats. The critical infrastructure has become a target of sophisticated cyber attacks which exploit several, also unknown, vulnerabilities in one course of an attack. The paper proposes an attack ...

The orientation on the technical content of a reference model can increase the efficiency of processes in business engineering projects. Despite this, the use of reference models in the field of business engineering has not yet established itself in practice. The article at hand addresses this problem from a pragmatic perspective focusing on the designers‘ needs in specific modeling situations....

In this paper, referring to the Model for General Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME), we emphasize two of the operating elements of this model, which are essential to insure the organizational learning process that leads people to appropriate and use concepts, methods and tools of KM considered as an innovative technology: the “Ad hoc Infrastructures” element, and the “Organizat...