An evolutionary stage model of cyberspace is proposed based on the four key fundamental driving forces: Moore’s Law, Gilder’s Law, Metcalfe’s Law, and the Law of Disruption. It is suggested that the managerial tasks and information and communication technologies associated with the utilization of cyberspace will change in character over a period of time, and will evolve in patterns roughly rela...

The Telecommunications and Internet Technologies have evolved dramatically during the last decade, laying solid foundation for the future generation of the Ubiquitous Internet access, omnipresent web technologies and ultimate automated information cyberspace. As a result, the current efforts in the research and development in the areas of Next Generation of Internet and Telecommunications Techn...

Situation awareness depends on a reliable perception of the environment and comprehension of its semantic structures. In this respect, the cyberspace presents a unique challenge to the situation awareness of users and analysts, since it is a unique combination of human and machine elements, whose complex interactions occur in a global communication network. Accordingly, we outline the underpinn...

Distributed systems for computer security analysis must perform information fusion in order to construct a cyberspace situational awareness picture. To date such fusion has been conducted in the context of a single abstraction set. As the complexity and heterogony increase, this approach becomes unwieldy. In a conceptual sense it is unscaleable. In this paper we describe an alternative approach...

This paper aims at explicating the hegemonic pressure from the U.S. side and the constant resistance from the Chinese side during the U.S.-China IPR disputes in the cyberspace. The theory of hegemony and extended literature review reveal that during the U.S.-China IPR disputes in cyberspace, the dominant U.S. power has shaped the IPR world order so effectively for its own interests that China a...

The economy of an advanced country is, every day more, based on complex information systems and interconnected networks that made its cyberspace. Security in this cyberspace is an essential requirement. In Italy a national lab for Italian government has been constituted. In this framework identity and identity management systems has been studied. The depicted scenario defines new open questions...

Cyberspace already takes little note of national borders, which may eventually lose their significance for electronic commerce. Cyberspace and other innovative information technology (IT) have affected the financial system greatly moving from restricted proprietary systems to open networks. In the last 20 years, the financial services industry has witnessed dramatic changes, largely driven by g...