Le rapport du Conseil économique pour le développement durable étudie la question du financement des projets d'investissements s'inscrivant dans la perspective de la « croissance verte ». Rappelant le contexte de dégradation des finances publiques, il analyse, à travers les différentes...

Le rapport du Conseil économique pour le développement durable étudie la question du financement des projets d'investissements s'inscrivant dans la perspective de la « croissance verte ». Rappelant le contexte de dégradation des finances publiques, il analyse, à travers les différentes...

The term security assurance has been used in the computer science literature to express theconfidence that one has in the strength of the security measures. The need for a methodology tomeasure current security assurance levels of a system has been reported in the literature as vital inorder to...

In today's world, where most of the critical infrastructures are based on distributed systems, security failures have become very common, even within large corporations. A system with security loopholes can be damaging for companies, both in terms of reputation and finances, while customers are...

Security is a major target for today’s information systems (IS) designers. Security modelling languages exist to reason on security in the early phases of IS development, when the most crucial design decisions are made. Reasoning on security involves analysing risk, and effectively...

Enterprise Systems potentially lead to significant efficiency gains but require a well-conducted configuration process. A promising idea to manage and simplify the configuration process is based on the premise of using reference models for this task. Our paper continues along this idea and...

Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States and is the leading cause of death among people aged 1-44. Regional trauma care systems can significantly reduce this mortality rate if resources are located and used appropriately. Trauma centers are categorized as able to...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that local politics has an impact on local taxation in the French public sector by using a cross-sectional dataset on departments in 1999. Political variables are included in a tax-setting equation to provide empirical evidence whether local governments in...