Information systems playground—the target infrastructure

A Systems Approach to Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Design for Utility Management Automation Systems

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Information Systems Playground - The Target Infrastructure, Scaling Astro-WISE into the Petabyte range

The Target infrastructure has been specially built as a storage and compute infrastructure for the information systems derived from Astro-WISE. This infrastructure will be used by several applications that collaborate in the area of information systems within the Target project. It currently consists of 10 PB of storage and thousands of computational cores. The infrastructure has been construct...

Academic Knowledge Management Infrastructure: Information Systems Cybrarium

In what ways are advances in information technology likely to affect the processes of scientific research and publication? To study the issues we have developed a web-based knowledge management infrastructure which supports the creation, synthesis and application of scientific knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to present this infrastructure, which we call "Cybrarium", and to highlight cor...

Infrastructure for Research towards Ubiquitous Information Systems

Probabilistic Contaminant Source Identification in Water Distribution Infrastructure Systems

Large water distribution systems can be highly vulnerable to penetration of contaminant factors caused by different means including deliberate contamination injections. As contaminants quickly spread into a water distribution network, rapid characterization of the pollution source has a high measure of importance for early warning assessment and disaster management. In this paper, a methodology...