Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassing e-Securities, e-Health, and e-Logistics for global manufacturing and emergency response management, this work exploits latest advances in information and networking technologies to set a systematic framework for the design of...

In order to facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data, Spatial Data Infrastructures must set up a series of services to be reused by their community of users in the construction of different applications and value-added services. One of the key elements to exploit the resources provided by these infrastructures is to facilitate a catalog of services describing the features of th...

As Enterprise Systems (ES) have become almost ubiquitous in large organizations, multi-business organizations are increasingly moving towards developing shared IT infrastructures that support multiple business units. The operational and competitive gains are compelling enough for many organizations to invest in developing shared infrastructures. However, the managerial challenges involved in im...

National electronic identification systems (e-IDs) are key e-government infrastructures that form the backbone of e-government services. When developed via public-private partnerships (PPP), such e-government infrastructures require appropriate governance arrangements to sustain a delicate balance between governments and the private actors involved. Using the lens of power dependence theory, we...

Research evaluation should take into account the intended scholarly and non-scholarly audiences of the research output. This holds too for research infrastructures, which often aim at serving a large variety of audiences. With research and research infrastructures moving to the web, new possibilities are emerging for evaluation metrics. This paper proposes a feasible indicator for measuring the...

1. INTRODUCTION Infrastructure systems such as electric power, gas and energy, water distribution, wastewater, transportation networks and telecommunications systems are critical to the welfare, economy and security of every developed country. Protecting these critical infrastructures is one of the main challenges for governments and international organizations. In order to develop robust infra...

On 1 January, 2012, Nigeria commenced the implementation of cashless policy, with the kick-off in Lagos State. By the end of that year it was evident the implementation could not be extended to other states of the federation, as earlier scheduled. This raised a crucial question: was Nigeria prepared in the first place, in terms of availability of needed infrastructures, to commence implementati...