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Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News Next year Atos Origin staff will join the London team fresh from working on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, bolstering the core team made up of staff who have been building the tech backbone of the Olympics since the 2004 Games... [27 Oct 2009]
Greek School Increases Student Engagement and Creates a Digital Community
White Paper Administrators at the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation (HAEF), including Athens College and Psychico College, wanted to expand the school's use of technology and link two campuses with an online resource that... [28 Aug 2009]
A Closed Queueing Network Model for Malware Spreading Over Non-Propagative Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper This paper proposes a closed queueing network model, based on a probabilistic node infection framework that captures in an aggregated manner the behavior of an ad hoc network attacked by a group of malicious nodes. [20 Jun 2009]
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Utility-Based Architecture
White Paper Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) comprises a fast-developing research area with a vast spectrum of applications. A WSN design is influenced by many factors such as transmission errors, network topology and power consumption. [23 Apr 2009]
Random Walks With Jumps in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Random Walks have been proposed for information dissemination/discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks. This paper proposes the Random Walk with Jumps model as an improvement on the Random Walk without Jumps for sparse graphs. [23 Apr 2009]
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology in Ocean Container Transport
White Paper The central contribution of this paper is to present the status and perspectives of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in ocean container transport. To that end, the paper reports on the problem area and expected changes,... [15 Apr 2009]
Software Quality Assessment of Open Source Software
White Paper The open source software ecosystem comprises more than a hundred thousand applications of varying quality. Individuals and organizations wishing to use open source software packages have scarce objective data to evaluate their quality. [06 Feb 2009]
Gredia Middleware Architecture
White Paper This paper presents RDLS (Rich Data Location Services), a grid middleware for data management designed to meet the requirements posed by the GREDIA project. The main purpose of the described Middleware components is to provide the... [15 Jan 2009]
Dynamic Data Mediation in Enterprise Application Integration
White Paper If one tries to increase the level of automation in Business-to-Business Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios, one confronts challenges related to the resolution of data and message heterogeneities - that traditional,... [20 Dec 2008]
A Decision Support System for Wildfire Damage Reduction With UML
White Paper Forests sustain extensive fire damages in many places in the world as a consequence of accelerated population needs, economic growth and extreme climatic conditions. Forest managers play an important role in fire prevention and dealing... [03 Dec 2008]
New Operating System Helps Consulting Firm Enhance Security and Performance
White Paper Based in Athens, Greece, Tailors Consulting provides customized professional services to clients across Europe. Since its inception in 2007, the firm's partners knew that business operations would require a stable,... [03 Dec 2008]
An RT-UML Model for Building Faster-Than-Real-Time Simulators
White Paper Faster-than-Real-Time Simulation (FRTS) is widely used for training, control and decision making purposes. FRTS experimentation proves to be rather demanding, requiring a consistent specification for developing such systems. [30 Nov 2008]
London Olympics puts IT on a diet
News Hyron was previously operations manager at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, integration manager at the Athens 2004 Games and quality manager at the Salt Lake City Games. London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is to trim the... [26 Nov 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News Todorovic said: "We were using real time risk management technology developed at previous games including Athens and Salt Lake. Faced with 12 million alerts per day the team at the Games' worldwide IT partner Atos Origin... [30 Oct 2008]
2012 Olympics 'like a digital Queen's coronation'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event in London today, Ben Gallop, head of interactive for BBC Sport, said that 13 per cent of viewers had watched the Beijing Games over broadband, compared to no more than three per cent for the... [23 Oct 2008]
