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DEPARTMENTS
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COLUMNS
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SPECIAL ISSUE
May 2005 (Vol. 48, No. 5)
Adaptive complex enterprises
Table of Contents
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
Editorial pointers
Page 5
DEPARTMENT: News track
News track
Pages 9-10
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
Pages 11-13
COLUMN: Security watch
Trusting in transparency
In providing security assurances, transparency and trust are inherently intertwined concepts, but their relationship is not well understood.
Pages 15-19
DEPARTMENT: Hot links
Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library
Pages 21-22
COLUMN: Staying connected
DEPARTMENT: President's letter
Recognizing individual excellence helps us all
In addition to honoring individuals who have advanced our field, recognizing technical excellence enhances the image of our profession and helps attract the best and brightest to our field.
Pages 27-28
COLUMN: Viewpoint
How to prepare tomorrow's technologists for global networks of innovation
University curricula must prepare them to be able to recognize and embrace technologies, components, markets, and customers wherever in the world they happen to be.
Pages 29-31
SPECIAL ISSUE: Adaptive complex enterprises
Introduction
It is common knowledge that individuals, the communities in which we live, and the organizations we create adapt over time and changing conditions. It is also generally understood that organizations, communities, and individuals …
Pages 32-35
Health care and services delivery systems as complex adaptive systems
Alan Turing and John von Neumann pioneered the study of complex systems. In analyzing feedback processes, they were interested in how complex interacting systems can respond to new information. Among other things, they found …
Pages 36-44
Test beds for complex systems
Global competition requires major manufacturers to increase productivity, quality, and responsiveness while simultaneously decreasing costs and time to market. To achieve these seemingly conflicting requirements, many manufacturers …
Pages 45-50
Fractal architecture for the adaptive complex enterprise
Today's businesses must continuously adapt to external conditions in accelerated time frames. This requires businesses to shift from strategies that eliminate variation to those that embrace variation and changing conditions. …
Pages 51-57
IT-enabled sense-and-respond strategies in complex public organizations
City governments face difficult challenges in serving their increasingly Net-connected constituencies in an environment of change, uncertain demand, and reduced budgets. These conditions require their IT departments to enable …
Pages 58-64
Designing sticky knowledge networks
Much of any organization's experience and expertise remains underused and underexploited simply because it resides not in databases, repositories, or manuals but in the minds of its employees. Attempting to harness such distributed …
Pages 66-71
Challenges of migrating to agile methodologies
Software development methodologies are constantly evolving due to changing technologies and new demands from users. Today's dynamic business environment has given rise to emergent organizations that continuously adapt their structures …
Pages 72-78
Business types, e-strategies, and performance
Of the multitude of dot-coms in existence in the 1990s, only a fraction survived the crash of the e-commerce (EC) market in the summer of 2000. These companies must now rediscover the principles that governed businesses prior …
Pages 80-85
The (gradually) changing face of state IT jobs
Working for the state once meant long hours, low pay, and lots of red tape. That picture has certainly changed in recent years, as state governments plan to compete with the private sector for top IT talent.
Pages 87-91
A covenant with transparency: opening the black box of models
One important ethical aspect of the use of models for decision making is the relative power of the various actors involved in decision support: the modelers, the clients, the users, and those affected by the model. Each has a …
Pages 93-97
Scale-free geometry in OO programs
Though conventional OO design suggests programs should be built from many small objects, like Lego bricks, they are instead built from objects that are scale-free, like fractals, and unlike Lego bricks.
Pages 99-103
Information dissemination via wireless broadcast
Unrestricted mobility adds a new dimension to data access methodology--- one that must be addressed before true ubiquity can be realized.
Pages 105-110
The Lowell database research self-assessment
Database needs are changing, driven by the Internet and increasing amounts of scientific and sensor data. In this article, the authors propose research into several important new directions for database management systems.
Pages 111-118
COLUMN: Technical opinion
Potential pitfalls in packaged software adoption
Numerous organizational considerations influence packaged software purchasing.
Pages 119-121
COLUMN: Inside risks
Risks of third-party data
Page 136
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