At the beginning of the transition, advice to Central European countries with respect to how to set up their ®nancial systems was based on models used in western economies. This paper analyzes the experiences to set up a ®nancial system in Central Europe. The experience in the ®rst transition years (1990±1996) with ®nancial system architecture shows that changes are slow but that the Central Eu...

The goal of this document is to openly contribute with our comments the EOSCArchitecture report: Scholarly Infrastructures for Research Software (SIRS), and thus, participate in European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) architecture design.

THIS ISSUE’S COLUMN reports on papers (and a talk) from the 19th International Conference on Software Product Lines, the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, the 23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, and the 9th European Conference on Software Architecture. Feedback or ...

In 2004 the European Commission initiated the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programme to meet significantly higher capacity and safety targets in the future. The current architecture of ATM services needs to be changed in order to realise these targets. This paper presents the results of an initial quantitative safety risk analysis of a Trajectory Based Operation (TBO) in the Termina...

This paper describes a hybrid distributed architecture, based on the JXTA technology, for searching and discovering data in a federation of solar observation archives. This work has been developed within the European project EGSO (European Grid of Solar Observations) with the intent of studying and analysing a set of technologies and showing the brokerage capabilities of a highly controlled dis...

The Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorological Study (DRIHMS) is a coordinated action co-funded by the European Commission. DRIHMS analyzes the main issues that arise when designing and setting up a pan-European Grid-based e-Infrastructure for research activities in the hydrologic and meteorological fields. The main outcome of the project is represented first by a set of Grid ...

In the last years, several robots for building façade cleaning have been designed and some prototypes have been developed. However, most of these robotics systems are too expensive to be introduced in the market or are only able to cope with very simple completely flat glass façades. Funded by the European Commission, a consortium formed by several European enterprises and research institutions...

In this contribution two European research projects funded by the European Commission in the framework of the IST programme are introduced. The goal is to present the basic ideas and concepts of the projects “ Multi-Agents-based Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Management in Complex Systems (MAGIC)” and “Intelligent Fault Tolerant Control in Integrated Systems (IFATIS)” which both aim at the sol...

This paper reports on results from a Master thesis project undertaken to develop software architecture for decentralized credentials, a generalization of the concept of an electronic wallet system developed in the European research project CAFÉ [1]. Within this new model you can leave most of the content of your electronic wallet (credentials, keys and passwords) at the security of your residen...

Nowadays, grid systems are vital technology for programs running with high performance and problems solving with largescale in scientific, engineering and business. In grid systems, heterogeneous computational resources and data should be shared between independent organizations that are scatter geographically. A data grid is a kind of grid types that make relations computational and storage re...