United States-based biorepositories are on the cusp of substantial change in regulatory oversight at the same time that they are increasingly including samples and data from large populations, e.g. all patients in healthcare system. It is appropriate to engage stakeholders from these populations in new governance arrangements. We sought to describe community recommendations for biorepository go...

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a low-complexity dialogue mechanism between the management and transport planes of an alloptical network. This dialogue aims at exchanging relevant information from monitoring the performance and degradation of optical signals with minimal disturbance to the optical services and minimum knowledge of the transport history of data, with a vie...

In this paper we discuss the issues of wireless mobile networks for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and examine several available technologies. Furthermore, we propose a design of secure transparent mobile IP to provide broadband ITS services over wireless LAN that improves upon security, transparency and handoff of mobile IP. The proposed design adopts a tunnel-in-tunnel mechanism for...

Within the framework of the German Government’s High-Tech strategy, the Industry 4.0 initiative was created, aiming to develop the “Smart Factory”. The approach assumes increased automation and a transparent, user-centred Production Planning and Scheduling. The “intelligent components” communicate with people and systems independently and find the optimal route through production.

This paper presents a direct network element (NE) configuration and status file transfer routine based model for managing programmable NEs, avoiding complexity and restrictions of intermediate messaging and transaction protocols of conventional network management systems (NMS). The routine of transferring binary network management data files between NMS and NEs enables logical decoupling of the...

Pervasive systems for end users are becoming mainstream yet ways to make them transparent and controllable by users are still in their infancy. In this position paper we describe our work with other kinds of intelligent systems to make them intelligible and adaptable by end users. Our results could hold useful lessons for pervasive systems to better support their use.

The e-government implies interoperability between the various existing administrative services so that the work of institutions can be more transparent for the citizen, more reliable and economic. It is the key problem in the development of the egovernment services. To this purpose, we define an approach to develop the mechanism of interoperability of information systems of the e-government. We...

First, some basic notions of transparent intensional logic (TIL) are introduced. Secondly, it is studied how natural-language interrogatives are analyzed in TIL.