Smart grids enable customers and utility providers to gain a better understanding of energy consumption and production, by adding a layer of digital data collection and analysis on existing electricity grids. As digital infrastructures they have distinct characteristics from earlier ‘pipeline’ infrastructures in that they can generate significant network effects that could lead to new opportuni...

Critical Infrastructures, such as energy, banking, and transport, are an essential pillar to the well-being of the national and international economy, security and quality of life. These infrastructures are dependent on a spectrum of highly-interconnected information infrastructures for their smooth, reliable and continuous operation. The field of protecting such Critical Information Infrastruc...

Recent years have seen a trend towards decentralisation from initiatives on decentralized web to decentralized network infrastructures (e.g community networks). In this position paper, we present an architectural vision for decentralising cloud service infrastructures. Our vision is on the notion of community cloud infrastructures on top of decentralised access infrastructures i.e. community ne...

The protection of critical infrastructures, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern of many nation states in recent years. Critical infrastructures involve multi-dimensional, highly complex collections of technologies, processes, and people, and as such, are vulnerable to potentially catastrophic failures on many levels. Moreover, cross-infrastructure dependencies can give ...

Research on agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) methodologies and multi-agent system (MAS) infrastructures has developed in the last years along two opposite paths: while AOSE methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution pushed by contributions from heterogeneous fields like human sciences, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path growing from existing a...

Natural disasters can have a devastating effect on critical infrastructures, especially in case of cascading effects among multiple infrastructures such as the electric power grid, the communication network, and the road network. While there exist detailed models for individual types of infrastructures such as electric power grids, these do not encompass the various interconnections and interde...

In the past years, new levels of flexibility in software have been required. The need to support variability in software product lines, the multitude of applications in an organization and the fast evolution of software applications has pushed the development of flexible software infrastructures. Practitioners and researches sought for new ways of achieving reuse and variability in their domain...

The presented ongoing research project focuses on the challenges concerning the protection of critical infrastructures. Since critical infrastructures become more and more cross-linked a single breakdown can cause serious cascading effects on other infrastructures. Interdependencies of critical infrastructures are boundaryspanning and therefore public authorities, operating companies and other ...

The growing importance of eGoverment is putting pressure on authorities to provide services online and accessible to the citizen. In order to satisfy this necessity, Goverments have to develop high-cost infrastructures in a short period of time and with a diffuse specifications of the objectives and services. In the other hand, there are a large set of initiatives that have been launched for th...

1 Information Infrastructures in Healthcare Over the last decade information infrastructures in healthcare has become an established research field with a dedicated community sharing an interest in unpacking and exploring the complexities involved in creating, maintaining, designing, and continuously reconfiguring information infrastructures for healthcare. The core of this research comprises t...