Abstract This article explores international legal entanglements with the infrastructure of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a socio-technical construction that comprises globally definitive measure seconds, minutes and hours working in lockstep around world. UTC is produced maintained law, through administration social, political, material technical dimensions. In analysing mutual law infrast...

Joining up service delivery of multiple organizations often requires public organizations to exchange citizens’ information. To ensure their privacy and realize information security, controlling data access is paramount. However, limited research was found on issues that emerge when realizing data access control in inter-organizational collaboration. Security is typically achieved by implementi...

Service-oriented architectures are increasingly used in the context of business processes, but the proven practices for the integration of services and processes are not well explained so far. For the integration of services and processes many different concerns, ranging from technical to architectural to businessrelated concerns, must be considered, and combinations of these concerns that are ...

Kossel line patterns contain information on the crystalline structure, such as the magnitude and the phase of Bragg reflections. For technical reasons, most of these patterns are obtained using electron beam excitation, which leads to surface sensitivity that limits the spatial extent of the structural information. To obtain the atomic structure in bulk volumes, X-rays should be used as the exc...

A Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM) System refers to an information and communication technology (ICT) system that facilitates design and manufacturing knowledge sharing between actors (e.g., CBDM service providers and consumers) in the distributed and collaborative socio-technical network. The aim of this study is to address the challenge of information sharing and technical communic...

the interest for the spatial dimensions of agricultural development has been recently increased. this paper aimed at redefining the spatial patterns of agriculture to formulate appropriate strategies based on regional potentials. a composite agricultural development indicator (cadi), which is useful for the identification of spatial structure, has been developed. the developed composite index (...

the stock selection problem is one of the major issues in the investment industry, which is mainlysolved by analyzing financial ratios. however, considering the complexity and imprecise patterns ofthe stock market, obvious and easy-to-understand investment rules, based on fundamental analysis,are difficult to obtain. fundamental and technical analyses are two common methods for predictingthe fu...

A rotation-invariant neocognitron is constructed by extending the neocognitron which can recognize translated, scaled and/or distorted patterns from training ones. In constructing the model two technical methods during the learning, a “threshold-controlling method” and a “rotation matrix method”, are proposed. In numerical simulations, it is shown that the model can recognize globally and/or lo...