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Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy
Authors: Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Mahesh S. Raisinghani
Venue:  (2008)

Todays enterprises are increasingly going global by becoming more distributed, leveraging resource bases in all parts of the world. Whether through offshore relationships, global support or application development programs, or linking disparate parts of organizations, enterprises are reducing costs by managing applications centrally, boosting security, and assuring network uptime. Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the field of the emerging sub-discipline of global information technology management, covering topics such as the technical platform for global IS applications, information systems projects spanning cultures, managing information technology in multi-domestic/international/global/transnational corporations, and global information technology systems and socioeconomic development in developing countries.
Performance improvement in general packet radio service (GPRS) network based on priority queue oriented admission control
Authors: V. O. S. Olunloyo, A. M. Ajofoyinbo
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th Wseas international conference on Telecommunications and informatics (2009)

One of the session management functions in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Network is the Connection Admission Control (CAC). It is performed during the Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context activation phase. A CAC policy is normally defined in such a way that all traffic flows can be served in line with the negotiated Quality of Service (QoS) profiles. In the literature, researchers have developed several algorithms for QoS provision in GPRS networks some of which disrupt ongoing packets transmission. In this paper, we present a new methodology that precludes any disruption of ongoing packets transmission but also allows for priority allocation of available bandwidth. The methodology has been tested using QoS profile of some typical applications, and the results show that the proposed algorithm indeed has potentials for bandwidth optimization at any instance.
A Collaborative Environment for User-initiated Development of Web Applications
Authors: Sota Honda, Hidaka Yano, Michiru Tanaka, Keizo Yamada, Jun Sasaki, Yutaka Funyu
Venue: Proceeding of the 2007 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the sixth SoMeT_07 (2007)

Many projects that develop information systems fail because system developers do not understand the user's requirements completely. The term “user” here means the customers that requests the software development to system developers. The reasons for failure include incomplete specifications of the user's requirements and the frequent changes thereof. We propose a new development method for a collaborative development model between users and system developers in developing Web application. In our method, users first create a part of the screen images and screen transition images in HTML. Next, the Web-app-skeleton generation tool we have developed, automatically generates a skeleton of the Web application from the HTML files. The system developers then add logical function to it. The Web-app-skeleton generation tool works to generate an optimal skeleton, after analyzing the structure of the HTML file, evaluating any similarity to other HTML files and clustering the pages. This paper describes the new user initiative collborative development environment. In addition, the prototype Web-app-skeleton generation tool is discussed and experimental results obtained from using the tool are reported.
Classifying Natural Objects on Outdoor Scenes
Authors: Anna Bosch, Xavier Muòoz, Joan Martí, Arnau Oliver
Venue: Proceeding of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development (2005)

We propose an hybrid and probabilistic classification of image regions belonging to scenes primarily containing natural objects, e.g. sky, trees, etc. as a first step in solving the problem of scene context generation. Therefore, we will focus our work in the problem of image regions labeling to classify every pixel of a given image into one of several predefined classes. Our proposal begins with a top-down control to find the core of objects, which allow us to update the learned models. Moreover, they become the starting seeds for the growing of a set of concurrent active regions which, considering the own region model as well as region and boundary information, obtain an accurate recognition of known regions. Next, a general segmentation extracts the unknown regions by a bottom-up strategy. Finally, a last stage exploits the contextual information to classify initially unknown segmented objects. The result is both a segmentation of the image and a recognition of each segment as a given object class or as an unknown segmented object. Experimental results on a wide set of outdoor scene images are shown to evaluate and compare our proposal.
Performing with Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory, 1st edition
Authors: Iris Blanc, Cathy Vento
Venue:  (2007)

The Performing Series takes students to a higher level of learning through applied and project-based activities that go beyond the mechanics of the software.
The Next Leap in Productivity: What Top Managers Really Need to Know about Information Technology
Authors: Adam Kolawa
Venue:  (2009)

How much should top management really care about IT? Thats the question Adam Kolawa bluntly poses in this feisty and compelling book. The Next Leap in Productivity goes far beyond traditional business books written for the CIO community. It tackles crucial issues such as productivity, efficiency and quality management. It makes the case for applying the principles of Deming and Juran to software development. Then it takes a leap, arguing that huge potential increases in IT productivity can lead to enormous increases in enterprise productivity. In this sense, The Next Leap in Productivity is a truly visionary book. Software vendors and CIOs who read this book will discover a software development process that is transparent, practical and efficient. Non-technical C-level executives (CEOs, CFOs, COOs, etc.) will discover a blueprint for improving corporate productivity and dramatically reducing operating costs. For the past decade, CIOs have been urged, coaxed, counseled and exhorted to act more like CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other C-level executives. This book suggests that its time for CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other C-level executives to start acting more like CIOs. The Next Leap in Productivity will appeal to anyone involved in buying, selling, developing or using IT. Advance Praise for The Next Leap in Productivity Adams book is a challenge to all the top managers whove stopped caring about IT. His message is simple: If you really care about IT, you find ways to make IT more productive. The improvements you achieve in IT productivity can then be leveraged into huge leaps in productivity at the enterprise level. This book offers a roadmap for translating IT productivity into business profit. Adams argument is worth reading and worth considering as you formulate your IT strategies and plan your IT budgets.--Gary Beach, Publisher Emeritus, CIO magazine Adam lays the groundwork for a common language that can be used to bridge the chasms between IT and other essential components of the business such as finance, product development, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Everyone who reads this book will learn valuable lessons that can be leveraged to improve returns on human capital investments at every level of the organization. Adams concepts have the potential to boost levels of confidence and performance throughout the enterprise.-- Michael Minelli, Co-author, Partnering with the CIO These kinds of productivity principles are not mere theory. When we put these same principles into effect, our productivity went up more than we had thought possible. And our employee morale went up, too. It became easier to write code the right way and harder to make stupid mistakes. This new way of creating software makes it possible for us to concentrate on what we really want to do here at Cisco, which is to improve the Internet for everybody.-- Andy Chessin, Senior Technical Lead, Cisco, Inc.
Package-Based Description Logics
Authors: Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant Honavar
Venue: Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization (2009)

We present the syntax and semantics of a family of modular ontology languages, Package-based Description Logics (P-DL), to support context- specific reuse of knowledge from multiple ontology modules. In particular, we describe a P-DL ${\mathcal SHOIQP}$ that allows the importing of concept, role and nominal names between multiple ontology modules (each of which can be viewed as a ${\mathcal SHOIQ}$ ontology). ${\mathcal SHOIQP}$ supports contextualized interpretation, i.e., interpretation from the point of view of a specific package. We establish the necessary and sufficient conditions on domain relations (i.e., the relations between individuals in different local domains) that need to hold in order to preserve the unsatisfiability of concept formulae, monotonicity of inference, transitive reuse of knowledge across modules.
Overcoming the insider: reducing employee computer crime through Situational Crime Prevention
Authors: Robert Willison, Mikko Siponen
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2009)

Information security has become increasingly important for organizations, given their dependence on ICT. Not surprisingly, therefore, the external threats posed by hackers and viruses have received extensive coverage in the mass media. Yet numerous security surveys also point to the 'insider' threat of employee computer crime. In 2006, for example, the Global Security Survey by Deloitte reports that 28% of respondent organizations encountered considerable internal computer fraud. This figure may not appear high, but the impact of crime perpetrated by insiders can be profound. Donn Parker argues that 'cyber-criminals' should be considered in terms of their criminal attributes, which include skills, knowledge, resources, access and motives (SKRAM). It is as a consequence of such attributes, acquired within the organization, that employers can pose a major threat. Hence, employees use skills gained through their legitimate work duties for illegitimate gain. A knowledge of security vulnerabilities can be exploited, utilising resources and access are provided by companies. It may even be the case that the motive is created by the organization in the form of employee disgruntlement. These criminal attributes aid offenders in the pursuit of their criminal acts, which in the extreme can bring down an organization. In the main, companies have addressed the insider threat through a workforce, which is made aware of its information security responsibilities and acts accordingly. Thus, security policies and complementary education and awareness programmes are now commonplace for organizations. That said, little progress has been made in understanding the insider threat from an offender's perspective. As organizations attempt to grapple with the behavior of dishonest employees, criminology potentially offers a body of knowledge for addressing this problem. It is suggested that Situational Crime Prevention (SCP), a relative newcomer to criminology, can help enhance initiatives aimed at addressing the insider threat. In this article, we discuss how recent criminological developments that focus on the criminal act, represent a departure from traditional criminology, which examines the causes of criminality. As part of these recent developments we discuss SCP. After defining this approach, we illustrate how it can inform and enhance information security practices. In recent years, a number of criminologists have criticised their discipline for assuming that the task of explaining the causes of criminality is the same as explaining the criminal act. Simply to explain how people develop a criminal disposition is only half the equation. What is also required is an explanation of how crimes are perpetrated. Criminological approaches, which focus on the criminal act, would appear to offer more to information security practitioners than their dispositional counterparts. Accordingly, the SCP approach can offer additional tools for practitioners in their fight against insider computer crime.
Edit metric decoding: a new hope
Authors: Joseph A. Brown, Sheridan K. Houghten, Daniel A. Ashlock
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (2009)

In this position paper we examine preliminary results of a new type of general error correction decoder for Edit Metric Codes. The Single Classifier Machine Decoder uses the concept of Side Effect Machines(SEMs) created via Genetic Algorithms(GAs) in order to create a mapping from the Edit Metric to the Euclidean Metric to create a decoder. By not having to measure the edit distance to every codeword the decoder has a far smaller runtime complexity. Fuzzy versions are also examined which reduce the number of times the Levenshtein or Edit distance must be calculated. Codes of the form (n, M, d)4 are targeted due to their suitability for bioinformatics problems. A (12, 55, 7)4 code is used as an example of the process.
Modeling and linear stability analysis of the biological processes in the mobile bed biofilm reactor
Authors: Diana Robescu, Dan Robescu
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical and computational methods in science and engineering (2008)

The paper presents a model of the attached growth biological process in a mobile bed biofilm reactor. It takes into account both the biological film attached on mobile elements area and suspended biofilm in a reactor. Writing it in dimensionless form, the model is generalized. A linear stability analysis is made to investigate conditions to have a stable long-run biomass concentration in the reactor, an analysis that is useful for the proper operation of bioreactor. This analysis leads to a relation that is deduced from among kinetic parameters, dilution rate, influent substrate concentration and a new parameter, named carrier media constant, that has to be satisfied to avoid the washout behavior of the bioreactor.
WordPress For Dummies, 2nd edition
Authors: Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Venue: For Dummies (2009)

Bloggers love WordPress! If you're ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash. Professional blog designer Lisa Sabin-Wilson shows you how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the Wordpress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you're just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help. Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it's easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.
Profiling Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions with Speech Act Classifiers
Authors: Sujith Ravi, Jihie Kim
Venue: Proceeding of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work (2007)

On-line discussion is a popular form of web-based computer-mediated communication and is an important medium for distance education. Automatic tools for analyzing online discussions are highly desirable for better information management and assistance. This paper presents an approach for automatically profiling student interactions in on-line discussions. Using N-gram features and linear SVM, we developed “speech act” classifiers that identify the roles that individual messages play. The classifiers were used in finding messages that contain questions or answers. We then applied a set of thread analysis rules for identifying threads that may have unanswered questions and need instructor attention. We evaluated the results with three human annotators, and 70-75% of the predictions from the system were consistent with human answers.
On the multi-channel access schemes of the evolving WLANs
Authors: Hyewon Lee, Kwanghun Han, Youngwoo Hwang, Sunghyun Choi
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (2009)

Today wireless local area networks (WLAN) are evolving with an aim to enhance the throughput performance leveraging various cutting-edge technologies. In this paper, we compare the aggregate throughput performance of two different multi-channel access schemes, namely, channel bonding (of the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard) and multi-radio MAC. Numerical analysis demonstrates that even though the channel bonding scheme can provide the higher physical layer transmission rate with the wider bandwidth, this does not always guarantee a higher aggregate throughput due to the relatively larger MAC overhead. Moreover, it is shown that distributing stations across multiple channels with multi-radio MAC can further enhance the aggregate throughput performance due to the reduced contention overhead.
Using A* algorithm for directed linear arrangement problem
Authors: Derchian Tsaih, Guangming Wu, Shaoshin Hung, Chinshan Wu
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods, computational techniques and intelligent systems (2008)

In this paper we present a novel A* algorithm to solve the Directed Linear Arrangement Problem. By using a branch and bound technique to embed a given directed acyclic graph into a layerwise partition search graph, the optimal directed ordering is then be identified through a A* shortest path search in the embedding graph. In order to reduce the memory requirement of the A* search, we also discuss a implementation of the relay node technique from Zhou [11].
CHAC, A MOACO algorithm for computation of bi-criteria military unit path in the battlefield: Presentation and first results
Authors: A. M. Mora, J. J. Merelo, J. L. J. Laredo, C. Millan, J. Torrecillas
Venue: International Journal of Intelligent Systems (2009)

In this paper, we present a multiobjective ant colony optimization (MOACO) algorithm, called CHAC, designed to solve the problem of finding the path for a military unit that minimizes the cost in resources while maximizing safety. Unlike previous MOACO algorithms, CHAC uses a single colony and two different state transition rules: One that combines the heuristic and pheromone information of both objectives and another based on the dominance concept of multiobjective optimization problems. These rules have been evaluated in different scenarios (maps with different degrees of difficulty), outperforming a greedy algorithm (taken as baseline), and yielding a good military behavior in the tactical sense. In comparison, the combined rule is slightly better than the rule based on dominance. &copy; 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
EnCOrE (Encyclopédie de Chimie Organique Electronique): an Original Way to Represent and Transfer Knowledge from Freshmen to Researchers in Organic Chemistry
Authors: Catherine Colaux-Castillo, Alain Krief
Venue: Proceeding of the 2005 conference on Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services (2005)

EnCOrE is an original proposal which is expected to allow the sharing and the transfer of knowledge in organic chemistry. The system will use MIDES software, whith a peer-to-peer architecture, which will allow setting up a technological and methodological frame to allow collaborative building of knowledge in between chemists. Learning Grid's services will help for Experimental Electronic Laboratory “LabCOrE” as well as for predictive computational tools.
Expanding Indonesian-Japanese small translation dictionary using a pivot language
Authors: Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Ayu Purwarianti, Toshiyuki Wakita, Seiichi Nakagawa
Venue: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions (2007)

We propose a novel method to expand a small existing translation dictionary to a large translation dictionary using a pivot language. Our method depends on the assumption that it is possible to find a pivot language for a given language pair on condition that there are both a large translation dictionary from the source language to the pivot language, and a large translation dictionary from the pivot language to the destination language. Experiments that expands the Indonesian-Japanese dictionary using the English language as a pivot language shows that the proposed method can improve performance of a real CLIR system.
Controllable Scaffolding for Navigation Planning in Hyperspace
Authors: Akihiro Kashihara, Koichi Ota
Venue: Proceeding of the 2007 conference on Supporting Learning Flow through Integrative Technologies (2007)

Planning navigation process in hyperspace is an important meta-cognitive activity for learning hypermedia/hypertext-based resources. However, it is quite hard for learners to plan their navigation process in a self-directed way. Our approach to this issue is to provide learners with a guided map as scaffold for navigation planning, which not only represents hyperspace but also highlights representative pages and links to be learned in the hyperspace. This paper proposes controllable scaffolding with the guided map, which controls learners' navigation planning efforts by changing the quantity and quality of highlighted pages and links on the map. The results of a case study indicate that the guided map can promote their planning process by controlling the scaffold level.
Magic Agents: Using Information Relevance to Control Autonomy
Authors: B. van der Vecht, F. Dignum, J-J. Ch. Meyer
Venue: Proceeding of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2008)

Autonomous agents are believed to have control over their internal state and over their behaviour. For that reason, an agent should control how and by whom it is being influenced. We introduce a reasoning component for BDI-agents that deals with the control over external influences, and we propose heuristics using local knowledge to process incoming stimuli. One of those heuristics is based on information relevance with respect to the agent's current plans and goals. We have developed a way to determine the relevance of information in BDI-agents using magic sets from database research as basis. The method presented shows a new application of magic sets by applying the theory in agent systems.