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Recent innovations in utility computing, web services, and service-oriented architectures, combined with a growing array of
IT skills, have improved firms’ ability to be more agile in responding to change. Using the resource-based view of the firm,
prior research suggests that IT resources, in isolation, are unlikely to yield superior performance and so as firms try to
boost their agility, the question becomes how to configure IT resources to prepare for, or react to, change. In this paper,
we posit that managerial IT capabilities based on IT-business partnerships, strategic planning, and ex-post IT project analysis
lead to the development of technical IT capabilities associated with a flexible IT infrastructure which in turn drives agility
or a firm’s ability to react to change in its products and markets. Using data from matched surveys of IT and business executives
in 241 firms, we find that managerial and technical capabilities affect agility. In further testing, we reveal that in a stable
setting, technical IT capabilities are more important to agility than managerial IT capabilities, while in a dynamic setting,
the opposite is true. Thus, for firms operating in volatile markets, effective models of managerial IT governance are essential
for delivering superior agility or adaptiveness.
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Nowadays data mining plays an important role in decision making. Since many organizations do not possess the in-house expertise
of data mining, it is beneficial to outsource data mining tasks to external service providers. However, most organizations
hesitate to do so due to the concern of loss of business intelligence and customer privacy. In this paper, we present a Bloom
filter based solution to enable organizations to outsource their tasks of mining association rules, at the same time, protect
their business intelligence and customer privacy. Our approach can achieve high precision in data mining by trading-off the
storage requirement.
This research was supported by the USA National Science Foundation Grants CCR-0310974 and IIS-0546027.
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We introduce a system for sensing complex social systems with data collected from 100 mobile phones over the course of 9 months.
We demonstrate the ability to use standard Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephones to measure information access and use in different
contexts, recognize social patterns in daily user activity, infer relationships, identify socially significant locations,
and model organizational rhythms.
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Laws set requirements that force organizations to assess the security and privacy of their IT systems and impose them to implement
minimal precautionary security measures. Several IT solutions (e.g., Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Access Control Infrastructure,
etc.) have been proposed to address security and privacy issues. However, understanding why, and when such solutions have
to be adopted is often unanswered because the answer comes only from a broader perspective, accounting for legal and organizational
issues. Security engineers and legal experts should analyze the business goals of a company and its organizational structure
and derive from there the points where security and privacy problems may arise and which solutions best fit such (legal) problems.
The paper investigates the methodological support for capturing security and privacy requirements of a concrete health care
provider.
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In this article, we present a conceptual model and a web-based architecture for implementing an enterprise-wide modeling system
for decision support. It describes a framework and develops a method that is aimed at effectively organizing, integrating,
and reusing knowledge and model components from various sources across an organization in order to provide better knowledge
access to decision makers. Given a query, the compositional modeling system responds with automatically building models for
the described scenario by searching the organizational knowledge base and retrieving and integrating relevant knowledge components.
We conclude with outlining an illustrative business example that demonstrates how our enterprise modeling system can be applied
as useful tool for operational and strategic decision-making.
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The Stanford Event Heap has been shown to provide appropriate support for constructing interactive workspace applications.
Given this success it is natural to consider the Event Heap as a platform to support other classes of Ubiquitous Computing
applications. In this paper we argue that the distributed, spontaneous nature of these applications places additional demands
on the Event Heap that require extensions to both the engineering and API. Suitable extensions are described and their use
to support a typical Ubicomp application is discussed.
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In this paper, we present a method for development and specification of web services based on the quality system documentation.
The general assumption is that service oriented architecture is based on business services and these business services mostly
correspond to exchanged documentation in a real business system. Documentation of a quality system is recognized in form of
documents that describe business processes in a real business system and identify exchanged documentation with environment.
Presented method uses documentation of quality system and documentation flow for web service specification. We developed the
CASE tool for web service specification based on a new approach, and we compare it to other existing tools.
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This paper describes the simulated car racing competition that was arranged as part of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation. Both the game that was used as the domain for the competition, the controllers submitted as entries to the competition
and its results are presented. With this paper, we hope to provide some insight into the efficacy of various computational
intelligence methods on a well-defined game task, as well as an example of one way of running a competition. In the process,
we provide a set of reference results for those who wish to use the simplerace game to benchmark their own algorithms. The paper is co-authored by the organizers and participants of the competition.
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Awareness systems have attracted significant research interest for their potential to support interpersonal relationships.
Investigations of awareness systems for the domestic environment have suggested that such systems can help individuals stay
in touch with dear friends or family and provide affective benefits to their users. Our research provides empirical evidence
to refine and substantiate such suggestions. We report our experience with designing and evaluating the ASTRA awareness system,
for connecting households and mobile family members. We introduce the concept of connectedness and its measurement through
the Affective Benefits and Costs of communication questionnaire (ABC-Q). We inform results that testify the benefits of sharing
experiences at the moment they happen without interrupting potential receivers. Finally, we document the role that lightweight,
picture-based communication can play in the range of communication media available.
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IT outsourcing research has often been at the transaction level, focusing on the role of the characteristics of the IT activities
as the antecedents of outsourcing decisions. The present study extends past research efforts examining the relationships between
organizational level variables—in particular the business strategy—and the decision to outsource. Results show that prospectors
and analyzers are more aggressive in their use of outsourcing for IT operations. However, no differences between the behaviour
of the different strategic groups were found for maintenance activities, suggesting that these activities are too far from
the core of the organization to be influenced by strategic profile.
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Collaborative business process can become unreliable when business partners collaborate in a peer- based fashion without central
control. Therefore, reliability checking becomes an important issue that needs to be dealt with for any generic solution in
managing business collaboration. In this paper, we propose a novel Choreographical Business Transaction Net (CoBTx-Net) to model collaborative business process and to manage the collaboration by individual participants. Furthermore three reliability
properties named Time-embedded dead marking freeness, Inter-organizational dead marking freeness, and Collaborative soundness are defined based on CoBTx-Net to verify (1) the violation of time constraint, (2) collaborative logic conflicts, and (3)
the improper termination from individual organizations.
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology dramatically increases the ability of the organization to acquire a vast array of data about the location
and properties of any entity that can be physically tagged and wirelessly scanned within certain technical limitations. RFID
can be applied to a variety of tasks, structures, work systems and contexts along the value chain, including business-to-business
logistics, internal operations, business-to-consumer marketing, and after-sales service applications. As industry adoption
of RFID increases there is an emerging interest by academic researchers to engage in scholarly investigation to understand
how RFID relates to mobility, organizational and systems technologies (MOST). In this paper, we explore RFID and propose a research agenda to address a series of broad research questions related
to how RFID technology: (1) is developed, adopted, and implemented by organizations; (2) is used, supported, and evolved within
organizations and alliances; and (3) impacts individuals, business processes, organizations, and markets. As with many technological
innovations, as the technical problems associated with implementing and using RFID are addressed and resolved, the managerial
and organizational issues will emerge as critical areas for IS research.
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Quantitative usability requirements are a critical but challenging, and hence an often neglected aspect of a usability engineering process. A case study is described where quantitative usability requirements played a key role in the development of a new user interface of a mobile phone. Within the practical constraints of the project, existing methods for determining usability requirements and evaluating the extent to which these are met, could not be applied as such, therefore tailored methods had to be developed. These methods and their applications are discussed. 相似文献
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The complexity of group dynamics occurring in small group interactions often hinders the performance of teams. The availability
of rich multimodal information about what is going on during the meeting makes it possible to explore the possibility of providing
support to dysfunctional teams from facilitation to training sessions addressing both the individuals and the group as a whole.
A necessary step in this direction is that of capturing and understanding group dynamics. In this paper, we discuss a particular
scenario, in which meeting participants receive multimedia feedback on their relational behaviour, as a first step towards
increasing self-awareness. We describe the background and the motivation for a coding scheme for annotating meeting recordings
partially inspired by the Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis. This coding scheme was aimed at identifying suitable observable
behavioural sequences. The study is complemented with an experimental investigation on the acceptability of such a service.
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The advancement of web services in the last few years has spurred a number of revolutionary concepts in information technology
and management including service-oriented architectures, service-oriented computing, and services science, management and
engineering, which can be collectively called as “services computing.” Services computing is a new research field that goes
beyond traditional computing disciplines as it includes not only architectural, programming, deployment, and other engineering
issues, but also management issues such as business component modeling, business process design, and service delivery. In
this paper, we provide an overview of emerging research concepts in services computing without attempting to unify them as
it will take sometime for the field to become mature. In addition, we take a position that the ultimate goal of services computing
is to create the necessary technological and managerial foundation to support enterprise agility. In this short paper, we
give an overview of services computing, describe its relationship to enterprise agility, and discuss basic technical and managerial
issues. Finally, we introduce the papers that are published in this special issue.
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Operations Support Systems (OSS) have been a critical component of any telecommunications company’s business plan. In this
paper we examine the history of OSS from the perspectives of maturing support for problem domains, enabling technologies,
and system integration. Finally, we will look at the problems posed by the coming “everything over IP” networks, the changing
communications provider landscape and the impact on operations support systems.
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The paper reflects on the unique experience of social and technological development in Lithuania since the regaining of independence
as a newly reshaped society constructing a distinctive competitive IST-based model at global level. This has presented Lithuanian
pattern of how to integrate different experiences and relations between generations in implementing complex information society
approaches. The resulting programme in general is linked to the Lisbon objectives of the European Union. The experience of
transitional countries in Europe, each different but facing some common problems, may be useful to developing countries in
Africa.
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Listening to music on personal, digital devices whilst mobile is an enjoyable, everyday activity. We explore a scheme for
exploiting this practice to immerse listeners in navigation cues. Our prototype, ONTRACK, continuously adapts audio, modifying
the spatial balance and volume to lead listeners to their target destination. First we report on an initial lab-based evaluation
that demonstrated the approach’s efficacy: users were able to complete tasks within a reasonable time and their subjective
feedback was positive. Encouraged by these results we constructed a handheld prototype. Here, we discuss this implementation
and the results of field-trials. These indicate that even with a low-fidelity realisation of the concept, users can quite
effectively navigate complicated routes.
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We present a study of using camera-phones and visual-tags to access mobile services. Firstly, a user-experience study is described in which participants were both observed learning to interact with a prototype mobile service and interviewed
about their experiences. Secondly, a pointing-device task is presented in which quantitative data was gathered regarding the speed and accuracy with which participants aimed and clicked
on visual-tags using camera-phones. We found that participants’ attitudes to visual-tag-based applications were broadly positive,
although they had several important reservations about camera-phone technology more generally. Data from our pointing-device
task demonstrated that novice users were able to aim and click on visual-tags quickly (well under 3 s per pointing-device
trial on average) and accurately (almost all meeting our defined speed/accuracy tradeoff of 6% error-rate). Based on our findings,
design lessons for camera-phone and visual-tag applications are presented.
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