Loretta Anania

European Commission | ec · Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT)

Many smart contract applications—or more precisely blockchain-based digital ledger technologies (DLTs) proliferate. And yet, without accounting for the identity dimension and the different authentication regimes, there is little chance that these technologies will gain widespread use, and their disruptive innovation potential will not be realized....

Twin transition requires a reThink on smart cities, urban smartness and 5G connectivity. The authors propose cold zones (in addition to hot zones) and a track-me-not data minimization space under a disposable (yet verifiable) digital identities regime.

PetaMedia might be remembered as one of the ‘last of the Mohicans’ in that ‘Networks of Excellence’ of its kind are an endangered species, as far as EU contracts go. Collaborative R&D projects in the EU framework programmes are a proven and effective instrument to address scientific and societal problems, reinforcing global competitiveness as part...

Search has become an important and necessary component of many diverse ICT applications. A large number of business and application areas depend on the efficiency and availability of search techniques that are capable to process and retrieve heterogeneous and dispersed data. These include: a) the Web, b) mobile devices and applications, c) social n...

In this article we describe a new approach to enhance presence technologies. First, we discuss the strong relationship between cognitive processes and emotions and how human physiology is uniquely affected when experiencing each emotion. Secondly, we ...

The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts to establish such metrics. The chapters, which develope...

This paper examines how the allocation of costs in the telephone distribution plant might change with the introduction of new infrastructure models-fiber optics technology and Broadband ISDN control mechanisms. We suggest that as variable costs approach zero with a B-ISDN network, a flat rate for access only may be the only practical pricing method...

Implementation of an open network architecture (ONA) regime and integrated services digital network (ISDN) technology implies a reallocation of resources among public and private networks. This new telecommunications system is sufficiently different from the past network that transition to a digital infrastructure may be neither smooth nor equitabl...

This paper examines how the allocation of costs in the telephone distribution plant might change with the introduction of new infrastructure models—fiber optics technology and Broadband ISDN control mechanisms. We sug¬gest that as variable costs approach zero with a B-ISDN network, a flat rate for access only may be the only practical pricing metho...

IMPLEMENTATION of an Open Network Architecture (ONA) regime and In­tegrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) technology implies a realloca­tion of resources among public and private networks. This new telecom­ munication system is sufficiently different from the past that the transition to a digital infrastructure may neither be smooth nor equitable...