this study aimed to provide a framework to assess the e-readiness of ramak company in shiraz. to that end, after reviewing the related literature in the field of e-readiness and selecting the proper model, the model parameters were distributed among experts in the form of a questionnaire, and with the help of fuzzy screening, 49 indicators were finalized. then, using the combination method of d...

In Proc. of ESORICS 2005, Milan, Italy, Sept. 12-14, 2005. LNCS. © Springer-Verlag 2005. Abstract. Security protocols are critical for protecting modern communication infrastructures and are therefore subject to thorough analysis. However practical implementations of these protocols lack the same level of attention and thus may be more exposed to attacks. This paper discusses security assurance...

Today, communications, information networks, e-Commerce, e-Education, and all other e-Services and infrastructures tend to play a major role in our daily life and global economy. Nowadays, in modern society, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is the force that drives productivity and creates a higher standard of living. The growing dependence on such systems, however, increased the...

Multi-agent systems have emerged as a very significant platform in provisioning distributed and collaborative services to critical applications. Such applications require ubiquitous agent presence in the environment for monitoring, collecting data, communication, and subsequent data analysis, where the sensitivity of the application’s nature cannot be understated. Recent advances in the field o...

Major efforts are currently under way to develop e-infrastructures for research. At the same time, there have been a number of calls for research in the digital realm to foster ‘openness’, for example in ‘open access’ policies. This paper explores the relation between einfrastructures and open science, and argues that there are a number of factors apart from research policy that will shape e-re...

Implementing knowledge management or knowledge-sharing projects in an organization require significant organizational prerequisites. Lacking proper infrastructures and prerequisite, not only make the knowledge management process unprofitable, but might incur harmful effects as well. To decrease such risks, it is proposed to introduce the readiness assessment, in order to gauge a company’s appet...

MDA has been around for more than three years already. Nevertheless, besides the lack of a standard model transformation language to support the MDA vision, there is even a lack of tool support to implement the platform-specific mappings promoted by the same MDA. For quite some years now, tool vendors offer the possibility to generate code for different programming languages, but the spectrum o...