<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Veselina Aleksandrova</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">KostadinVarbanov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Violeta Vasileva</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Application of Sustainable Technologies and Internet of Things in the Security and Defense Area</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Scientific Conference &quot;Challenges to the EU and NATO in the context of radicalization, terrorism and migration</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11-12 April 2018</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military Academy “G.S. Rakovski”</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sofia</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">123-129</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Veselina Aleksandrova</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miroslav Kochankov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vanya Tagareva</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anna Guncheva</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Violeta Vasileva</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interface Solutions for Improving Information Interoperability in the Conditions of Hybrid Threats</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information exchange gateways</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information interoperability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">interface solutions</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">39</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">275-285</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In this article the authors offer interface alternatives and solutions for the information exchange in the infrastructure of cyber domains. Information interoperability is seen as a guarantee for secure information transfer related to the development of capabilities to counter hybrid threats. This is achievable when NATO interoperability directives are strictly followed. Technical interface gateways are proposed which allow change of data character in a heterogeneous environment as well as information exchange gateways in an environment with various security domains in order to check and filter information.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Georgi Pavlov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Veselina Aleksandrova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">E-Tender - An Approach for Ensuring Transparency  in Defence Budget Management</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defence policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e-Government</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electronic tender</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information technology impact</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Internet online application</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">public procurement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Transparency</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">148-162</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The authors present a software product development in support of conducting of electronic tenders (“e-Tender”). The product may be implemented in accordance with the purposes of the Law on Public Tenders - the law that establishes terms and procedures for public procurement. E-Tender will facilitate transparency of defence policy concerning planning and budgeting processes - one of the main objectives of Partnership for Peace programme. This article considers the e-tender not only as an Internet on-line application for improving transparency of defence management but also as a decision support tool.
The following objectives are achieved through successful realization of a public web site for electronic submission of documents: increased public access and transparency of tenders; confidentiality of any company information provided; and confidentiality of proposals made by the prospective contractors. Each participant, through specialized programmes called agents, is able to ask for the opinion of “independent” experts (for example, experts from foreign centres for analyses and prognoses) and to add to the database of potential project contractors. Another advantage is that the possibility to create a database for those companies that have successfully executed contracts, as well for companies that have had significant problems in meeting the customers’ expectations. The software realization of such tenders would also provide excellent opportunities for accelerating the execution of urgent requests, for example, procurement of perishable products. In addition, an interested observer would be able to check what were the criteria and the method of analysis chosen by a contractor. As a whole, the transparency of public procurement relates closely to the widely discussed issues of e-Government.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>