Very Large Research Infrastructures (VLRIs) are unique, complex undertakings with a strong international dimension that play critical role in frontier research most scientific domains. VLRIs require considerable care their construction and operation, as well very substantial investments technological innovations. Recent evolutions the political, socio-economic context challenging established pl...

Not long ago, the IT profession was concerned with integrating islands of information. Then the focus shifted to integration of applications to form enterprise systems. A major challenge of the new millennia is the integration of IT infrastructures that have emerged as technology rapidly advanced during the past couple of decades. This holistic view is similar to many ideas found in Stafford Be...

Software defined infrastructures are computer infrastructures expressed in computer code. As software defined infrastructures is a young technology the body of scientific knowledge on the subject is small. This study aims at identification of quality aspects of software defined infrastructure projects by interviewing practitioners in the field. The result is a quality model containing quality c...

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) quadrennial report card exhibited the grim picture nation’s transportation infrastructure [...]