Effective telecommunications capabilities can be imperative to facilitate immediate recovery operations for serious disaster events, such as, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. Disasters can happen any time, any place, unexpectedly. Quick response for recovery operations requires immediate access to any public telecommunications capabilities at hand. These capabilities incl...

A general information visualization infrastructure needs to support both data analysts and research scientists. The infrastructure needs to support the development of custom applications based on a sound common infrastructure, and customized for specific tasks. The initial environment needs to provide a predefined set of tools from which analysts can use to explore data. The infrastructure shou...

Our infrastructure touches the day-to-day life of each of our fellow citizens, and its capabilities, integrity and sustainability are crucial to the overall competitiveness and prosperity of our country. Unfortunately, the current state of U.S. infrastructure is not good: the American Society of Civil Engineers’ latest report on America’s infrastructure ranked it at a D+ — in need of $3.9 trill...

Increasing demand for new applications and services, continuous technology innovation, and rapidly changing economics are motivating the creation of a fundamentally new architecture for 21 century digital communications. Traditional architectural models for communications have been oriented toward meeting exacting requirements of a finite set of well-defined services, essentially, a fixed set o...

In this perspectives paper, we review the current state of Cyberinfrastructure and illustrate opportunities that we see if Cloud Computing strategies are adopted. In summary, Cloud Computing provides elastically provisioned computing, software, and service infrastructure, typically implemented on a foundation of virtual machine and virtual data storage technologies. This elasticity allows users...

Currently, organizations are increasingly aware of the need to protect their computer infrastructure to maintain continuity of operations. This process involves a number of different concerns including: managing natural disasters, equipment failure, and security breaches, poor data management, inadequate design, and complex/impractical design. The purpose of this article is to delineate how vir...

The globalisation of business, the growing use of information and communications technology (ICT) and, the shift from production-based to knowledgebased economy have given knowledge management (KM) a critical position across firms. However, there is limited empirical link between KM and information infrastructure capabilities [IICs] [1, 2]. A key objective of this paper, therefore, is to determ...

Engineering extended service-oriented architecture (SOA) –based web services for open environments that support collaboration sets numerous requirements to web services languages and support infrastructure capabilities provided by vendors. Issues such as composition and management of services become important, yet neither web services or the vendor platform support infrastructure contain the al...