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The Mobile Resource Guarantees (MRG) project has developed a proof-carrying-code infrastructure for certifying resource bounds of mobile code. Key components of this infrastructure are a certifying compiler for a high-level language, a hierarchy of program logics, tailored for reasoning about resource consumption, and an embedding of the logics into a theorem prover. In this paper, we give an overview of the project's results, discuss the lessons learnt from it and introduce follow-up work in new projects that will build on these results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about e-policies in an information society setting in Europe, from a section of the book "Convergence and Fragmentation" is presented. It addresses the need for a human-centered approach towards the development of an information society. It discusses the National Information Infrastructure Agenda for Action program established by the U.S. government considering the vital role of the information and communication infrastructure.

Focuses on communication governance and the role of civil society in multidimensionality of information processes. Reflection on participation and the changing scope of political action; Opportunities offered by the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2003; Potential impact of WSIS on global politics, particularly in the fields of communication governance and communication rights.

When developing large software systems it is hard to predict their performance behavior at early development stages. This paper presents an engineering methodology for performance prediction based on high-level application architectures that are simulated within the real infrastructure setup. This methodology is realized in a performance simulation framework. Our results show that a software system's performance can be predicted based on its conceived high-level software architecture already at early phases in the software development process. Then the approach was validated with a case study, where the performance of an existing system was measured. Accordingly we created a performance model, and ran simulations within our framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the emergence of information society in Europe. Information policies of the European Union in the 1990s; Liberalization of telecommunications; Convergence between telecommunications and broadcasting.

Focuses on the role of Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) in implementing the objectives of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS). Fields of interest in the WSIS documents affecting traditional media; Provisions of PSB for implementing WSIS aims; Factors that prevent PSB from implementing WSIS aims; Perspectives for WSIS 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia.

Focuses on the steps to achieve a sustainable information society discussed at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2003. Role of the structure of the WSIS in technological change; Criteria that could be used to distinguish analytically definitions of the information society; Need for information and communication technologies to be accompanied by investment in skills and organizational change; Tasks of a working group on Internet governance.

Describes an experiment of communication through information and communication technologies, which is still in progress in Palermo, Italy. Social nature and the composition of the nonprofit organization in the country; Results of a research action on the communication activities of the Sicilian private-social organizations carried out by a team of sociologists of the University of Palermo; Reason behind the development of the Telematic Portal for the communication of the nonprofit sector in Palermo.

Focuses on the involvement of civil society in the process of drafting the agenda addressed at the United Nations World Summit Information Society process held in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2003. Role of researchers in non-governmental organizations and in the WSIS process; Emergence of alternative paradigm based on the cognitive revolution within the process; Kind of hybridization appearing between promoters of direct participation and promoters of political representation.

Focuses on civil society and its role within the United Nations World Summit Information Society process. Problems encountered when introducing the notion of participation in processes of regional or global governance; Evaluation of participatory practices within global settings; Components of the theoretical model on participation and power.

Discusses the three lines of critique towards the digital divide discourse and illustrates them by referring to the position the European Union formulates in their two PrepCom documents for the World Summit of the Information Society. Argument of the multi-dimensional character of Internet access; Role and specificity of early adopters in order to account for the reduction or reinterpretation of the divide; Field of participatory communication for inspiration.

Analyzes the policy challenges to the development of an information society in Europe. Emphasis on telecommunications and broadcasting; Discourse and the process of policy making at the European level; Origin of imported fiction in several European countries.

Reviews the information and communication technologies research policies and related information society strategies of the European Union. Role of educational exchanges and research collaborations across the member states; Program of the European Commission for a radical re-regulation of the telecommunications sector in 1998; Policies for information content and culture.

Chapter 12 deals with the application of the Internet to power station monitoring and discusses its use for energy trading. It also presents an introduction to Web technology and its applications. Java promises to play a yet more fundamental role in the future of on-line computing, including electronic commerce, for it can allow anyone to make use of powerful applications anywhere. One result of its platform independence is that a scrap of code called a Java applet can be embedded in a World Wide Web page. Some examples have been given and the benefits derived from it are obvious. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Introduces the book " European Public Administration and Informatization," edited by P.H.A. Frissen, V.J.J.M. Bekkers, B.K. Brussaard, I.T.M. Snellen and M. Wolters and published by IOS Press. General background of the book; Large scale information systems; Information infrastructure; Contents of the publication; Administrative modernization.