Smart Business Networks: How the Network Wins
Realizing scenarios in which business is conducted through a rapidly formed network with anyone, anywhere, anytime regardless of different computer systems and business processes.
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The Whitewater Process: Software Product Development in Small IT Businesses
Small software development companies need it to ensure they stay on course and are able to respond to the market's ebbs and flows.
Attempting to locate and quantify material on the Web that is hidden from typical search techniques.
Universal Accessibility as a Multimodal Design Issue
Creating adaptable solutions to address diverse users and situations.
Leadership is the defining characteristic in an unforgiving technology arena.
Does Personality Matter?: An Analysis of Code-Review Ability
Developing a better understanding of the mental processes leading to success or failure in code review.
Emerging from a paradigm different from objects, the modeling of agents requires its own conceptual frameworks, modeling languages, and methodologies.
Is Abstraction the Key to Computing?
Why is it that some software engineers and computer scientists are able to produce clear, elegant designs and programs, while others cannot? Is it possible to improve these skills through education and training? Critical to these questions is the notion of abstraction.
Managing Risk in Offshore Systems Development
The benefit of low-cost labor must be weighed against the risk of missed deadlines, dissatisfied users, and failure to reduce development costs.
Investigating Value-Based Decision Bias and Mediation: Do You Do as You Think?
Individual perspectives reflect one's innate value structure and have direct bearing on how one examines problems, classifies information, and makes decisions. The results of this study indicate that when an information system forces decision makers to consider the perspectives of others, their own performance deviates from their personal set of values.
Inconsistencies and Disconnects
The gap between the perception and reality of the technology skills of first-year college students raises questions about the role of state curriculum standards.
What Are People Searching on Government Web Sites?
A study of search activity on the Utah.gov Web site.
The interaction between businesses and their customers is ripe for the next leap, and it will require a collection of technologies to build new organizational structures such as demand chains, task-based intermediaries, and consumer communities.
Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications For Content Accessibility Using Web Marts
Developing technology to increase the accessibility of Web sites.
Analysis of Active Intrusion Prevention Data For Predicting Hostile Activity in Computer Networks
Using a generic and reliable model to anticipate future attack scenarios.
How to Avoid Disappointment By Design
Avoid market failure by aligning system performance with stakeholder expectations.
The slow and inadequate response to the devastations caused by Hurricane Katrina in the southern U.S. and the Indian Ocean tsunami that flooded coastal areas across South and Southeast Asia have left deep marks in the emergency management community. Essential emergency management coordination processes broke down in the immediate aftermath of these disasters, and even […]
Time-Critical Information Services
Emergency medical services have never been more ready for the implementation of time-critical interorganizational information services for the public good.
Public Warning in the Networked Age: Open Standards to the Rescue?
The sharing of information about threats and hazards is one of humankind’s most basic social activities. Warning others and—often simultaneously—enlisting help are essential functions in any community. Our aim here is to outline how modern public warning has developed and suggest some directions where it could be heading. In industrialized societies, public warning is often […]
Collaborative Adhocracies and Mix-and-Match Technologies in Emergency Management
Using the emergent interoperability approach to address unanticipated contingencies during emergency response.
Theoretical Reflections on Agile Development Methodologies
The traditional goal of optimization and control is making way for learning and innovation.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Implications For Large-Scale IT Outsourcing
Until they are certain that outsourcing IT management is the best possible option, firms would do well to maintain and invest in their own in-house IT assets.
Envisioning Intelligent Information Technologies Through the Prism of Web Intelligence
Users and businesses alike get to turn their raw data into new science, technology, and money.
Building the computer as part of the emergency management team ensures that people continue to do the things they do well, supported by the technology, not driven by it.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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