This paper investigates causal relationships between information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, financial development, and economic growth in Asian countries over the twelve-year period 2001e2012. Using panel cointegration techniques, our empirical results show these variables are cointegrated, with a myriad of short-run and long-run causal links between ICT infrastructur...

The purpose of this study was to create a ubiquitous proximity activated interactive digital display system providing adjusted artworks as content for evaluating viewer reactions and opinions to determine if similar interactive ubiquitous systems are a beneficial, enjoyable and even an appropriate way to display art. Multimedia used in galleries predominately provides content following set patt...

The protection of Critical Infrastructures (CI) is, by definition, of high importance for the welfare of citizens, due to direct threats (dictated by the current international political situation) and also due to their dependencies at international and European levels. Today, Greece remains one of the countries of the European Union, which has no comprehensive strategy to safeguard national CI,...

There is considerable effort to cover the broad variety of types of risk including natural disaster risk, technical disaster risk, biological disaster risk, transport and energy, research and innovation, critical infrastructure protection, cross-border health threats, implications for the health service systems, environmental impact assessment, green infrastructure, integrated coastal managemen...

The present paper provides a comprehensive review about the main concepts on situation awareness for critical infrastructure. The issues related to models and architectures for data fusion and situation awareness are reported in the framework of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Both data fusion and situation swareness have been developed in Critical Infrastructure field to merge and integrat...

Some sectors and parts of the Dutch national infrastructure are that essential to the Netherlands that serious disruption or even loss of service could lead to a severe impact to the Dutch society, government and industry as well as to those of neighbouring countries. Early 2002, the Dutch government started the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) project ‘Bescherming Vitale Infrastructuur...