Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments

A Core Ontological Model for Semantic Sensor Web Infrastructures

Semantic Sensor Web infrastructures use ontology-based models to represent the data that they manage; however, up to now, these ontological models do not allow representing all the characteristics of distributed, heterogeneous, and web-accessible sensor data. This paper describes a core ontological model for Semantic Sensor Web infrastructures that covers these characteristics and that has been...

Enabling Software Defined Networking Experiments in Networked Critical Infrastructures

Nowadays, the fact that Networked Critical Infrastructures (NCI), e.g., power plants, water plants, oil and gas distribution infrastructures, and electricity grids, are targeted by significant cyber threats is well known. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that specific characteristics of NCI can be exploited in the enabling of more efficient mitigation techniques, while novel techniques f...

avicenna’s ontological argument as viewed by averroes

averroes does not accept avicenna’s argument for the existence of the necessary bing. some maintain that averroes disagreed with avicenna, since he could not understand the relationship between essence and existence and could not make sense of the essential possibility and that he did not distinguish between potential possibility and essential possibility. in this paper, we argue that averroes ...

Community informatics as innovation in sociotechnical infrastructures

National Infrastructures as Complex Interactive Networks

The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of energy, telecommunications, transportation, and financial infrastructures pose new challenges for secure, reliable management and operation. No single entity has complete control of these multi-scale, distributed, highly interactive networks, or the ability to evaluate, monitor, and manage in real time. In addition, the conventional mathematic...