Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive...

Background: Over the past decade, clinical care has become globally dependent on information technology. The cybersecurity of healthcare information systems is now an essential component of safe, reliable, and effective healthcare delivery. Objectives: The objective of this study is to provide...

In this paper, we use feature extraction and data analysis techniques for the elucidation of patterns and trends in technological innovation. In studying innovation, we focus on the role of public research institutions (research universities and national laboratories) in the development of new...

This paper presents an approach to bibliometric analysis in the context of technology mining. Bibliometric analysis refers to the use of publication database statistics, e.g., hit counts relevant to a topic of interest. Technology mining facilitates the identification of a technology's research...

The web is undoubtedly the largest and most diverse repository of data, but it was not designed to offer the capabilities of traditional data base management systems - which is unfortunate. In a true data federation, all types of data sources, such as relational databases and semi-structured...

The availability of data on the web and the improvement of technologies have made it increasingly easy to reuse existing data to create new databases and provide valueadded services. Meanwhile, initial database creators have been seeking legal protection for their data. After presenting a brief...

One of the challenges of dealing with multiple contexts is the significant effort required to provide all necessary lifting rules so that statements in one context can be viewed and understood in other contexts. In this paper, we introduce the notion of structured contexts, where a lightweight...

Issues of international trade policy have gained increased attention while cybersecurity has not been a key issue for trade policy until recently. Cybersecurity concerns have presented significant challenges, and cybersecurity-related allegations have become a major source of growing commercial...

The Equifax data breach, announced in September 2017, occupies the top 10 charts of the largest data breaches in history. While the 148 million affected persons do not bring the event to the top, but the sensitivity of the data stolen makes it one of the most impactful incidents for consumers....

• The rush to adopt products on the Internet of Things (IoT) before securing them will make them attractive to cyber criminals and vulnerable to cyber-incidents. • Organizations can weaken the effects of cyber-incidents by creating cybersecurity capabilities at the beginning of their market...