THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (CIP)

The collocation “critical infrastructures” was officialy born in july 1996, when the USA president decreeted “The executive order for the critical infrastructures protection”. Accordingly to the preface of this document: “critical infrastructures represent Certain national infrastructures that are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the United States.”knowledge management, criticat infrastructures, security, threats, vulnerabilities, risks

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WITHIN ITIL

How people work requires knowledge and knowledge management is the fundamental glue that binds an IT organization and transitions it from good to great. ITIL, in its third version, has adopted a new process, related to knowledge management, and became even more business oriented service management standard.knowledge, management, information, technology, infrastructure, library

On Integrating Student Empirical Software Engineering Studies with Research and Teaching Goals

Background: Many empirical software engineering studies use students as subjects and are conducted as part of university courses. Aim: We aim at reporting our experiences with using guidelines for integrating empirical studies with our research and teaching goals. Method: We document our experience from conducting three studies with graduate students in two software architecture courses. Results: Our results show some problems that we faced when following the guidelines and deviations we made from the original guidelines. Conclusions: Based on our results we propose recommendations for empirical software engineering studies that are integrated in university courses.

Understanding and Supporting Software Architectural Decisions:for Reducing Architectural Knowledge Vaporization

The architecture of a software system is the result of architectural decisions on various topics, such as frameworks, patterns, programming languages, or ways to decompose the software system. Such decisions and their rationales are a significant part of the architectural knowledge about a software system. Architectural knowledge about a software system tends to vaporize. For example, architects might forget the rationales of decisions, change jobs, or postpone indefinitely documenting decisions to avoid disrupting their design flow. Architectural knowledge vaporization has major practical consequences, such as drifting away from the initially intended architecture, and expensive evolution, due to the substantial needed effort to understand previous decisions and to avoid conflicts with them. The overall research problem addressed in this thesis is how to reduce architectural knowledge vaporization. The overall solution is to reduce architectural knowledge vaporization by documenting architectural decisions and their rationales. The contributions of this thesis at solving this problem can be grouped in three phases: understanding the state of practice and research, exploring new ideas, and proposing concrete approaches to reduce architectural knowledge vaporization. In the third phase, we contributed with user friendly, open-source tool support for the two approaches for making and documenting individual and group architectural decisions. Overall, the contributions of this thesis help practitioners reduce architectural knowledge vaporization. Furthermore, the contributions of this thesis help researchers understand various aspects of architectural decisions and architectural knowledge, so that researchers can propose approaches that satisfy the needs of practitioners

A View on ECHR Case law for salary policy in Romanian public sector

Like economies of other countries in Western Europe, the Romania's economy went through a very difficult period because of the international financial crisis, with GDP falling by over 18%. In the situation of no longer being able to meet its payment obligations and under the pressures of international financial organizations, the Romanian government opted for the radical measure of cutting public sector wages by 25%. Faced with this unprecedented action of country administrative power representatives, the Romanian civil servants attacked this measure in national courts and after that, in front of the ECHR. This article presents the solutions of the Romanian courts, the European jurisprudence on lowering wages and its implications for public solutions Romanian legal systems