The major goal of this work is to identify the key factors that affect e-commerce adoption in Algeria from macro perspective. In order to do so, four main infrastructures extracted from literature review have been used to determine the nature of the barriers that have prevented e-commerce from taking off as expected and to explain why Algeria lags behind other countries with similar economic co...

Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassing e-Securities, e-Health, and e-Logistics for global manufacturing and emergency response management, this work exploits latest advances in information and networking technologies to set a systematic framework for the design of...

Critical infrastructures have evolved over the past decades to become largely computerised and interconnected all over the world. This generated the problem of achieving resilience of Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) against computer-borne attacks and severe faults, similar to those observed in the internet. Governments and industry have been pushing an immense research effort in info...

We describe ncWMS, an implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Map Service (WMS) specification for multidimensional gridded environmental data. ncWMS can read data in a large number of common scientific data formats e notably the NetCDF format with the Climate and Forecast conventions e then efficiently generate map imagery in thousands of different coordinate reference systems. I...

Social science today comprises collaborative research, which is more and more carried out on the basis of comprehensive digital infrastructures. These infrastructures aim at integrating all relevant resources for the research and providing tools to use these resources. In this paper, we present the research data life cycle in the social sciences and its challenges. We discuss prior work on inte...

Three german federal states developed a common platform for their environmental atlases. The web based platform leaves enough space for the partners to follow their own corporate design requirements. The main purpose is interactive spatial access to environmental information. The appearance may vary even for different users, in some cases to the point of process support. Furthermore the platfor...

The development of information infrastructures for international trade to improve supply chain visibility and security has gained momentum due to technological advances. An information infrastructure is a shared, open, and evolving assemblage of interlinked information systems providing distinct information technology capabilities. Examples of information infrastructures are the internet, elect...