Only in the context of international debate about economic development after Second World War did the term infrastructure become a label for the technical-political systems required for growth and modernity. This chapter traces the intellectual and institutional roots of the category of infrastructure in the development debates of the 1950s: its affinity with the earlier idea of social overhead...

Owing to the rapid and unrelenting digitalization of business ecosystems, digital infrastructure—as a new information technology artifact to conceptualize and realize interconnected information system collectives—has drawn considerable attention in information systems research. Building on the extant body of knowledge, this study synthesizes and integrates existing discourses into a theoretical...

This paper describes our approach to modeling computing infrastructures. Our main contribution is the Infrastructure and Network Description Language (INDL) ontology. The aim of INDL is to provide technology independent descriptions of computing infrastructures, including the physical resources as well as their network infrastructure. INDL also provides the necessary vocabulary to describe virt...

In this paper we illustrate a technical solution to the Interactive Television Applications case study presented in [1] using languages and tools from the Epsilon GMT component based on the infrastructure provided by the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).

This document describes a preliminary support infrastructure for MT940 services in a public Service Oriented Architecture and serves as an initial reference for developing MT940 parsing functionality. Its aim is to present functional, technical and process (organizational) requirements gathered by interviewing companies participating in the project. The document outlines a solution for technica...

In this paper we present some reflections stemming from a case study aimed at building a socio-technical infrastructure for supporting participatory design and development. We summarize and abstract our experience into an hourglass approach defined by the intersection of two co-evolving dimensions of infrastructuring: the social and the technical ones. Different subsets of the community, charac...

In this paper we argue against viewing computer desktop security solely as a technical issue. Instead, we propose a perspective that combines three related dimensions: technical infrastructure, usability and user engagement. In this light, we suggest that a viable approach to desktop security should embrace these three key dimensions of the end-user context. An example desktop application is de...