Research
The research
behind the catalog.
The engineering decisions in the PRESIDIO catalog are backed by two decades of peer-reviewed research on cloud governance, performance guarantees, distributed systems, and industrial IoT.
Thesis
Research lines map to products.
Each product in the catalog grew out of a research question that has published answers. Governance frameworks behind the assessment tools. SLA and dependability theory behind architectural transparency. Blockchain and distributed coordination behind agentic payments. Fog and IoT behind the industrial libraries.
The full record sits on Google Scholar. The four threads below pick the work most directly relevant to the engineering catalog.
Underpins presidio-hardened-ikigov-assess and the assessment toolkit.
Governance, risk & compliance
The engineering of evidence — how to design, document, and audit systems that face regulatory scrutiny.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance in Cloud Scenarios
A process framework for information security management
Security Management Standards: A Mapping
Underpins presidio-hardened-arch-translucency.
Performance, SLAs & architectural transparency
Bounded, observable behaviour for distributed systems — the foundation for performance control under agentic load.
Negotiating and enforcing QoS and SLAs in grid and cloud computing
Performance evaluation of cloud computing offerings
Addressing dependability throughout the SOA life cycle
Underpins presidio-hardened-x402.
Agents, blockchain & distributed coordination
Risk, standards, and adoption models for autonomous and blockchain-based systems — the research line behind agentic payments.
Perspectives on risks and standards that affect the requirements engineering of blockchain technology
Integration of IoT and Blockchain to increase humanitarian aid supply chains performance
An Integrated Adoption Model to Manage Blockchain-Driven Business Innovation in a Sustainable Way
Underpins presidio-hardened-opcua and presidio-hardened-esp32.
Fog, IoT & industrial systems
How edge and cloud tiers meet safety-critical and resource-constrained environments — the foundation for our industrial hardening work.
Smart Items, Fog and Cloud Computing as Enablers of Servitization in Healthcare
Fog computing architectures for healthcare. Wireless performance and semantic opportunities
Cloud computing based systems for healthcare
Book
Companion volume nearing publication.
AI and IT-Governance — and its German edition,KI und IT-Governance — is a Springer monograph by Vladimir Stantchev, now nearing publication. It introduces the IKI-Gov reference model implemented bypresidio-hardened-ikigov-assess, which is already public on GitHub and PyPI. Publication details (ISBN, date, Springer link) follow once they are public.