This paper starts with the assertion that the way physical objects are currently transported, handled, stored, realized, supplied, and used throughout the world is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and socially. Evidence supporting this assertion is exposed through a set of key unsustainability symptoms. Then, the paper expresses the goal to revert this situation, thus meeting the gl...

R ecent technological advances have enabled the significant growth of cyberspace, which is transforming the way citizens, corporations, and governments interact, collaborate, and conduct business. At the same time, our heavy dependence on various digital infrastructures, including the Internet, has made them strategic national assets—like land, water, and airspace—that must be safeguarded to en...

Entsprechend den von der GI formulierten „Grand Challenges der Informatik“ beschäftigt sich der Workshop mit einer aktuellen Herausforderung der Informatik der Software Qualität. „Software ist heute allgegenwärtig und kommt im täglichen Leben überall zum Einsatz: in der Kommunikation, der Unterhaltungselektronik, im Haushalt, in der Medizintechnik und in sicherheitskritischen Bereichen." [Grand...

this paper examines the problematization of cultural issues related tothe dual spacization of life. the emergence of the second space of lifeover the first place of life combining local and translocal, national andtransnational capacities and challenges. we discuss the capacities andopportunities occurring through the instant communication industrywhich made the spontaneous connection between a...

In principle, a network can transfer data at nearly the speed of light. Today’s Internet, however, is much slower: our measurements show that latencies are typically more than one, and often more than two orders of magnitude larger than the lower bound implied by the speed of light. Closing this gap would not only add value to today’s Internet applications, but might also open the door to excit...

generally, this article deals with the challenges and solutions facing the internet security. first, the article discusses the following subjects: the security of communication and information networks, the importance of the networks, the networks security precedence internet and computers crimes, the beginning of computer crimes, classifying computer crimes as well as the solutions proposed to...

The World Wide Web is rapidly emerging as an important medium for commerce as well as for the dissemination of information related to a wide range of topics (e.g., business and government). According to most predictions, the majority of human information will be available on the Web. These huge amounts of data raise a grand challenge, namely, how to turn the Web into a more useful information u...

In principle, a network can transfer data at nearly the speed of light. Today’s Internet, however, is much slower: our measurements show that latencies are typically more than one, and often more than two orders of magnitude larger than the lower bound implied by the speed of light. Closing this gap would not only add value to today’s Internet applications, but might also open the door to excit...

The penetration and growth of the Internet, as a key technology of the 21st century, caused to some major changes in all individual and social aspects of human life. Some of these changes, which associated with the evolution and changes in the concepts, including legal and political ones, have become a challenge. Identity as a legal and Government as a political concepts are in those fields whi...