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.
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Online Forums Supporting Grassroots Participation in Emergency Preparedness and Response
"When danger arises, the rule in normal situations is for people to help those next to them before they help themselves."
Communication Challenges in Emergency Response
A primary challenge in responding to both natural and man-made disasters is communication. This has been highlighted by recent disasters such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina [2, 5, 6]. A problem frequently cited by responders is the lack of radio interoperability. Responding organizations must work in concert to form a cohesive plan […]
Open Source Software For Disaster Management
Evaluating how the Sahana disaster information system coordinates disparate institutional and technical resources in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Agent-Based Systems For Disaster Management
In recent years agent technology has been successfully applied to many different domains such as e-commerce, control systems, and information gathering and management. Because this technology features the use of artificial intelligence to coordinate collaborative behavior in distributed systems, it supplies a powerful basis for proactive applications in complex organizations. Efficiently responding to large-scale disasters […]
Decision support system" (DSS) has become a multifaceted term covering a wide range of functions and uses, too many to list fully here. For example, systems might support operational, tactical, or strategic decision making. They might simply provide summaries of data; they might forecast future developments in the context of present circumstances or they might […]
Web Content Adaptation For Mobile Handheld Devices
Creative technologies can help overcome the limitations of mobile handheld devices while maximizing their strengths.
Spam and the Ongoing Battle For the Inbox
Even as spammers and phishers try evermore sophisticated techniques to get past filters and into users' mailboxes, anti-spam researchers have managed to stay several steps ahead, so far.
Dynamic Personalization of Web Sites Without User Intervention
A novel online recommender system builds profiling models and offers suggestions without the user taking the lead.
Encouraging Participation in Virtual Communities
Leaders of robust, sustainable virtual communities find ways tostrengthen their members' sense of social identity and motivate their participation in the community's activities.
Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
Studying the application of the CAN-SPAM Act and its effect on controlling unsolicited email messages.
Enabling the 21st Century Health Care Information Technology Revolution
The U.S. government's vision of the health care information infrastructure is possible using technologies that support the sharing of medical e-records while maintaining patient privacy.
Measuring intranet overall value contributions based on a corporation's critical business requirements.
An Integrated Approach to Federated Identity and Privilege Management in Open Systems
Online partnerships depend on federations of not only user identities but also of user entitlements across organizational boundaries.
Semantic Matching Across Heterogeneous Data Sources
Discovering semantic correspondences is the key to semantic integration of data sources and ultimately to data integration across disparate databases.
Success Factors For Implementing Global Information Systems
Before taking on global systems, project managers must conduct a proper process analysis and educatetop management, as well as end users.In today's globalized business environment, firms must learn to manage increasingly complex networks of subsidiaries, customers, and suppliers. Information systems support this effort by providing supply chain information, facilitating communication among supply chain partners and managers' decisions when coordinating the networks. "Global coordination," according to [5], "is one of the most important functions firms perform for optimal global operations to achieve operational flexibility."
Increased Security Through Open Source
It may seem counterintuitive, but going "open" all the way offers the most security.
Computing Versus Human Thinking
In this presentation I shall give you an overview of my works from the past fifty years concerning the issue given in the title. Concerning this title I invite you to note particularly the middle word, `versus’. This word points to the tendency of my efforts around this theme, to wit, to clarify the contrast […]
How They Manage IT: SMEs in Canada and the U.S.
Small and medium-sized companies in the U.S. make better use of IT than their Canadian counterparts.
RFID-embedded money is likely to mean the end of anonymous transactions and with it one of the last bastions of personal anonymity.
A Quality-Based Cost Estimation Model For the Product Line Life Cycle
In reusing common organizational assets, the software product line (SPL) provides substantial business opportunities for reducing the unit cost of similar products, improving productivity, reducing time to market, and promoting customer satisfaction [4]. By adopting effective product line practices, return on investment (ROI) becomes increasingly critical in the decision-making process. The majority of SPL cost […]
Product Management For Software Product Lines: An -nsolved Problem?
The goal of this article is to call attention to an area that is yet not sufficiently researched: product management for software product lines (SPLs). Many companies developing standardized software products have adopted product management as a function that coordinates research and development, marketing, sales, and software development. Even though this function coordinates all of […]
Software Frameworks For Advanced Procurement Auction Markets
A range of versatile auction formats are coming that allow more flexibility in specifying demand and supply.
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