Research evaluation should take into account the intended scholarly and non-scholarly audiences of the research output. This holds too for research infrastructures, which often aim at serving a large variety of audiences. With research and research infrastructures moving to the web, new possibilities are emerging for evaluation metrics. This paper proposes a feasible indicator for measuring the...

Background: Villagization scheme was chosen as a policy option and implemented to ensure sustainable food security in Assosa zone, Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia, although it is blamed for intensifying food insecurity instead. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the food security status of households gathered in planned villages in the framework of villagization. Methods: This cro...

The largely computerised nature of critical infrastructures and the pervasive interconnection of systems all over the world have generated the problem of achieving resilience of critical information infrastructures, namely against computer-borne attacks and severe faults. We believe the complexity of the problem prevents it from being solved using classical security methods. The paper focuses o...

The increasing relevance of the technological infrastructures (energy, communication, water supply, transportation, etc.) on our life imposes great attention about their protection. These infrastructures are complex networks, geographically dispersed and can be defined as non-linear systems that interact both among themselves, and with their human owners, operators and users [1]. Moreover, the ...

Protecting critical infrastructures, such as electrical power grids, has become a significant concern for many nation states in recent years. Increasing attention is being given to the problem of infrastructure modeling, in order to help identify and redress potential vulnerabilities. Understanding critical infrastructure behavior involves modeling not only individual infrastructures, but also ...

This paper explores the relationship between physical and cyber infrastructures, focusing on how threats and disruptions in physical infrastructures can cascade into failures in the cyber infrastructure. It also examines the challenges involved in organizing and managing massive amounts of critical infrastructure data that are geographically and logically disparate. To address these challenges,...

Context The material in this report is a draft of a large part of Chapter 3 of " Abstractions for Distributed Applications and Systems, " a book being written to be published by Wiley in 2012. This report primarily covers production distributed computing infras-tructures that have been used to develop and deploy large-scale scientific applications. We define a production distributed computing i...

The technological revolution has spread over today's world, and it is clearly seen in banking, especially electronic banking. E-Banking has many dimensions, criteria, and components, and judging its progress based on dimensions leads to difficulty and bias. There is also a lack of comprehensive information references in the literature. Therefore, introducing a combinational index to accurately ...

Modern society depends on several critical infrastructures like power, water, oil and gas generation and distribution. These infrastructures have evolved to become largely controlled by computers and interconnected by computer networks, which lets them exposed to the same types of threats as Internet systems. Therefore, research about mechanisms to improve the protection of these infrastructure...