AIS Council White Paper: Tools and Techniques for AIS Strategic Planning

AIS and Semantic Query

The semantic web has created various exciting opportunities to explore. Here we present a nature inspired solution to one such opportunity; that of semantic queries for information retrieval. We take our inspiration from the human immune system and develop an analogy between antibodies and queries. Successful antibodies are those that are activated by an infection. These antibodies are stimulat...

AIS neurofascin'd to matrix

To make a nuclear pore, just relax S taying limber is crucial not just for yoga enthusiasts, but for cells installing nuclear pores, as Scarcelli et al. report on page 799. They identify a protein that helps the passageways assemble by boosting the fl exibility of the nuclear membrane. Every molecule that enters or exits the nucleus passes through a nuclear pore complex. How cells build these c...

The AIS Expectation Gap

In response to the changing terms of competition in business, traditional accounting is becoming AIS – a growing subdiscipline of IS. Visionaries see accounting of the future as primarily an IS discipline as the field changes into a technologydriven information system profession. The challenge for accounting education is to keep pace with the transformation of the profession. This study uses da...

Space-Based AIS Performance

The performance of a space-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver, can be estimated in terms of the probability of detection of an uncorrupted ship’s AIS message. Signal collisions arising from other ships outside its selforganizing cell often limit performance. A probabilistic approach based on Poisson statistics is adopted to predict this. The method takes account of the ability...

AIS President's Report - 1998