Sustainable construction has become a growing trend among researchers and stakeholders. Simultaneously, resilience risk assessments for civil Infrastructures have flourished in terms of importance researchers, economic sectors, society. Nevertheless, there is no abundant research that correspond to both approaches, despite that, are massive similarities shared characteristics between investigat...

Research infrastructures play an increasingly essential role in scientific research. They provide rich data sources for scientists, such as services and software packages, via catalog virtual research environments. However, are typically domain-specific often not connected. Accordingly, researchers practitioners face fundamental challenges introduced by fragmented knowledge from heteroge...

In discrete logarithm based cryptography, a method by Pohlig and Hellman allows solving the discrete logarithm problem efficiently if the group order is known and has no large prime factors. The consequence is that such groups are avoided. In the past, there have been proposals for cryptography based on cyclic infrastructures. We will show that the Pohlig-Hellman method can be adapted to certai...

Institutional and technological changes concerning networked infrastructures, and increasing interdependency between these infrastructures necessitate a different view on their design and management. Responsibilities are no longer in one hand as they often used to be, and failures in systems may impact larger parts of the infrastructures, leading to serious service disruptions. This paper descr...

The socioeconomic, technological, and environmental needs developments call for effective infrastructure investment planning. Because infrastructures are interdependent, this requires the entanglement of their demand performance development. We propose a scenario-based system-of-systems model to support strategic decision-makers in evaluating effects planned investments on transport under diffe...

The infrastructures used in cities to supply power, water and gas are consistently becoming more automated. As society depends critically on these cyber-physical infrastructures, their survivability assessment deserves more attention. In this overview, we first touch upon a taxonomy on survivability of cyber-physical infrastructures, before we focus on three classes of infrastructures (gas, wat...

Coordination infrastructures play a central role in the engineering of multiagent systems. Since the advent of agent technology, research on coordination infrastructures has produced a significant number of infrastructures with varying features. In this paper, we review the the state of the art coordination infrastructures with the purpose of identifying open research challenges that next gener...

Critical Infrastructures are complex and highly interconnected systems that are crucial for the well-being of the society. Any type of failure can cause significant damage, affecting one or more sectors due to their inherent interdependency. Not only the infrastructures are critical, but also the information infrastructures that manage, control and supervise them. Due to the seriousness of the ...

With the expansion and convergence of communication and computing, dynamic provisioning of customized networking and processing infrastructures, as well as resource virtualization, are appealing concepts and technologies. Therefore, new models and tools are needed to allow users to create, trust and enjoy such on-demand virtual infrastructures within a wide area context. This research report pr...