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Chapter
No Digital Citizens Without Digital Humanism
Using a Digital Humanism viewpoint when teaching informatics is the key to face the challenges posed to our society by digital technologies. This is particularly relevant for education in school, where childre...
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Chapter
The Unbearable Disembodiedness of Cognitive Machines
Digital systems make up nowadays the communication and social infrastructure and fill every parcel of space and time, affecting our lives both professionally and personally. However, these “cognitive machines”...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Developing Digital Awareness at School: A Fundamental Step for Cybersecurity Education
The theme of cybersecurity regards people in primis, considering that everyone uses digital technologies both in professional and private life, and that people’s behaviour plays an important role in the occurrenc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Is Data Protection a Relevant Indicator for Measuring Corporate Reputation?
Over the last few years the importance of reputation has grown both for individuals and organizations, especially because of the Internet and social media platforms. Considering the value of data and informati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Engineering and the Value of Data: The Need of Specific Awareness Programs
In the field of cybersecurity human factor is considered one of the most critical elements. Security experts know well the importance of people’s security behaviors such as managing passwords, avoiding phishi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Building Organizational Risk Culture in Cyber Security: The Role of Human Factors
Experts stress the importance of human beings in cyber security prevention strategies, given that people are often considered the weakest link in the chain of security. In fact, international reports analyzing...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Informatics Education in School: A Multi-Year Large-Scale Study on Female Participation and Teachers’ Beliefs
This paper describes the outcomes of a multi-year large-scale study on Informatics education in school, involving an average of 3,600 teachers per school year of all school levels. The study has been conducte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Investigation of Italian Primary School Teachers’ View on Coding and Programming
This paper reports the results of an investigation involving almost a thousand primary school teachers in Italy, to explore their views on the terms “coding” and “programming”, and how they are related to thei...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Core Informatics Curriculum for Italian Compulsory Education
In order to bring informatics, its ideas and ways of thinking of major educational value to all primary and secondary school students, the Italian Inter-universities Consortium for Informatics (CINI), in colla...
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Article
Open AccessModeling gene regulatory network motifs using statecharts
Gene regulatory networks are widely used by biologists to describe the interactions among genes, proteins and other components at the intra-cellular level. Recently, a great effort has been devoted to give gen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Classification Framework for Interactive Digital Artworks
We define Interactive Digital Artworks as Information Technology intensive systems for which spectators are involved in the production of the artistic output. We propose a novel framework for classification of...
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Chapter
Identity Management for e-Government Services
Identity management systems play a critical role in the field of e-Government and e-Business, as they constitute the basic building blocks enabling secure and reliable access to online services. In this chapte...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Infrastructural Approach to Secure Interoperability of Electronic IDs: The Bridging Backbone
In this paper we propose a solution to secure interoperability between electronic ID management infrastructures enabling the provision of cross-border eServices to mobile citizens. Our proposal considers an in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
THE ITALIAN ELECTRONIC IDENTITY CARD: OVERALL ARCHITECTURE AND IT INFRASTRUCTURE
In this paper we describe the overall process of deployment of the Italian Electronic Identity Card: the way it is issued, services it is used for, organizations involved in the process, and the Information Te...
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Article
Nearly Linear Time Minimum Spanning Tree Maintenance for Transient Node Failures
Given a 2-node connected, real weighted, and undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, and given a minimum spanning tree (MST) $T=(V,E_T)$ of $G$, we study the problem of finding, for every n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reliable Peer-to-Peer Access for Italian Citizens to Digital Government Services on the Internet
In the delivery of e-government services to citizens it should be clear that the viewpoint cannot simply be the standard one of client-supplier commonly used to provide services on the Internet. In a modern so...
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Chapter
Inter-Organizational E-Services Accounting Management on Computational Grids
Accounting management is of strategic importance for a successful uptake of computational Grid technology within the user community. Computational Grid is one the most important paradigms for distributed compu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Specification for Security Services on Computational Grids
In this paper we present a computational infrastructure, the Security Backbone, which is able to satisfy security requirements arising from resource sharing and services interoperability in Grid-like environme...
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Book