This paper presents an ontology-based approach to integrate the measurements provided by different network monitoring tools and platforms. The combination of such measurements is valuable to network operators, enabling the development of new management applications. The use of ontologies provides some advantages over current syntactic solutions: classification, inference and querying capabiliti...

Providing both user-friendly and machine-readable interfaces to digital resources is one of the key tasks of highly integrated research infrastructures like CLARIN. The presented implementation of the Canonical Text Service Protocol CTS covers many of the associated problems, like dealing with varying levels of text granularity, persistent identification and address resolution, and simple inter...

It is an urgent, imminent and present danger that we have to focus on the traditional terrorists, who are transforming ICT into the modern attacking tools that can devastate the metropolitan areas with the deconstruction of critical infrastructures via the computer network using state-of-the-art hacking and cracking technologies. The cyber terrorists could inflict catastrophic loss or damage on...

Contemporary organizations are increasingly dependent on information infrastructures to deliver their services. However, information infrastructures are highly complex and dynamic, which lead to considerable management challenges. This research aims to contribute to our understanding of these challenges through an in-depth investigation of a team responsible for information infrastructure servi...

We describe a framework for relating available data on hazards to impact on infrastructure. It is designed to be used by simulation platforms that may focus on a single infrastructure layer or aim to study interactions between interdependent layers. The Hazard Impact Framework (HIF) provides a flexible scheme for capturing and maintaining data on the response of elements of critical infrastruct...

In the paper described directions of distributed, high performance computing (HPC) and other computer technologies development in Moldova. Considered research includes analysis of trends in the development of computer technologies, which focused on creating conditions for solving complex applied problems with high demands of performance computing resources. The result of these studies is the fo...

This paper presents AppPot, a system for creating Linux software appliances. AppPot can be run as a regular batch or grid job and executed in user space, and requires no special virtualization support in the infrastructure. The main design goal of AppPot is to bring the benefits of a virtualization-based IaaS cloud to existing batch-oriented computing infrastructures. In particular, AppPot addr...

Building up Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has been an important and actively followed topic in geo research for years. It’s also regarded in politics and by decision makers as leveraging technology for reducing time and cost in building up geo services for internal usage as well as for public information services. On the European level the new INSPIRE (Acronym for Infrastructure for Spatia...

The Internet of Things (IoT) presents today a huge potential in terms of both, technology deployment and business opportunities. Even though the IoT products performing similar tasks are densely deployed, a service provider needs to deploy multiple dedicated infrastructures per IoT segment if interoperable solutions and/or harmonized standards between different segments are not provided. Provid...

Recent advances in wireless computer networking have led to huge commercial success and very low pricing for broadband networks. While these networks are thought of as mainly for offices, they have been shown to be a practical means for providing broadband access to even the most remote areas at very low prices. They thus offer developing countries with an opportunity to “leap-frog” over wire l...