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This column celebrates the 40th anniversary of the publication of the first paper on the Internet's design in May 1974. It presents a brief history of Internet evolution and summarizes Internet governance debates throughout 2014.
The authors analyze legal regulation issues surrounding cloud computing in healthcare. As a result of the authors' expertise in cloud-based data processing for organizations in the areas of healthcare and life sciences, they propose an implementation roadmap. The roadmap is intended to provide guidance for organizations in the life sciences regarding the governance of health data processing and storage...
Recent scandals have stressed the need for information sharing among companies and governments. The sharing of information is not easy as companies want to keep their administrative burden low, whereas governments need high information quality. These drivers have resulted in the initiating of programs for developing infrastructures for information sharing. In these programs public and private organizations...
How does business-IT alignment change over time? Using a case study in the aerospace industry, we show how governance mechanisms are interrelated with the development of business-IT alignment over time. The case adds insight into a concrete business situation where activities are unfolded to change organizational practices and to increase performance. We demonstrate specific mechanisms influencing...
This paper proposes a plan for space solar power (SSP) project governance by US and foreign agencies and participation by industry, universities, and other non-governmental organizations. SSP research has typically focused on the technical aspects, rather than others that are equally important. NASA alone could never implement SSP, because it lacks the expertise required. This paper begins to bridge...
Characterizing attributes of a society is fundamental to human geography. Cultural, social, and economic factors that are critical to understanding societal attitudes are associated with specific phenomena that are observable from overhead imagery. The application of remote sensing to specific issues, such as population estimation, agricultural analysis, and environmental monitoring, has shown great...
Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules with defined specifications, better known as Generic Enablers. This article gives an overview of legal, ethical and technical norms and standards to be...
We introduce the concept of Hybrid Diversity - Aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) and their proposed role in addressing social problems associated with urban living, health, and financial markets. Our concern is for their responsible development and deployment, and to this end, we suggest perspectives on the governance of social machines and a framework from which to design governance regimes...
This paper deals with the problem of efficiently deploying business processes in service oriented environments with the purpose of enhancing operational agility and improving governance. Today's solutions rely on early coupling between the business process layer and the underlying service oriented architecture layer and this constrains evolution in either of the two layers to the ability of the other...
Traditional approaches to Social, Economic and Environmental Development (SEED) have historically employed a closed, top-down model in which problems are viewed narrowly and the input of local stakeholders is rarely sought. More recent efforts to address development from a holistic, multidisciplinary perspective-while a major step in the right direction-have been hindered by a lack of appropriate...
After the knowledge alliance set up governance committee, the Governance Committee and the alliance member enterprise will form a double game, furthermore considering knowledge alliance's customers will form a three-game. This paper discusses these two games and gives assumptions and solution. Finally, the article draws conclusions: on the one hand the knowledge alliance governance committee should...
Information Technology (IT) supports companies' business processes and decision making through the use of technologies and tools that are provided by suppliers. Companies that are suppliers and consumers establish relationships through contracts of purchasing products and consulting, for example. These relationships, i.e., the companies involved and the information exchanged between the parties are...
Recently, interest in performance modeling of out-come-based regulations has grown in the regulatory community. In this context, performance modeling refers to the measuring of important business aspects in a coordinated manner and the use of these measurements for improved decision making. Goal modeling techniques have shown to be beneficial when expressing and analyzing performance models. Since...
Despite the fact that integrated approaches for Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC-Management) are increasingly demanded, GRC is still used as a catchword for a wide range of topics whereas it is to a large extend unclear how the area of topics could be structured and which needs of research exist. Therefore this article analyses the state of research on the basis of strategic...
Cybernetics, as defined by Plato and later by Ampère is the science of governance. In the 1940s, Wiener used cybernetics as an umbrella term to refer to control and communication in both the animal and the machine. In the following decades, the term has been defined in various ways by different researchers, and because of this, cybernetics has been perceived rather negatively as a “nomad science”...
Now days autonomic network management systems are a significant part of Future Internet vision. These systems may be considered as Network Empowerment Mechanisms (NEMs) in an Heterogeneous, Multi-tier Network Environment. Their main purpose is to monitor network manageable entities, perform decision functions, and start possible healing actions. The NEMs deployment and interworking is proven to be...
This article leverages the findings of the transaction cost economics field, and proposes a simple theory and associated vocabulary to serve as a foundation for a unified theory of software engineering. It characterizes software engineering as a set of transactions organized under three governance structures. The theory explains the strengths and weaknesses of these governance structures in relation...
This paper demonstrates the key functionality provided by each process module of the End-to-End-Process (EtE) Order-to-Cash (OtC) and the technology being used. In addition the cloudification of this process will be analyzed. This paper thereby delivers a practical example of prior publications which serves as a base to evaluate the model suggested. The model to be evaluated shall address the rising...
Net-centricity is forcing the evolution of system of systems (SoS). One aspect of SoS that has been essentially ignored is SoS governance. Governance is the set of rules, policies, and decision-making criteria that will guide the SoS to achieving its goals and objectives. In this paper, we join the attributes of governance practices found in the IT community with known SoS types and characteristics...
The Future Internet (FI) vision fosters the establishment of highly dynamic and continuously evolving systems in which different organizations, via provided e-services, dynamically cooperate at run-time, and possibly just for a single application level transaction. Service choreographies contribute to establish the FI vision, by providing support for the description of complex and inter-organizational...
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