Can information technology affects people’s behavior and opinion? A way to identify it.

A Systems Approach to Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Design for Utility Management Automation Systems

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Can Students Identify the Relevant Information to Solve a Problem?

Solving non-routine problems is one of the most important skills for the 21st century. Traditional paper– pencil tests cannot assess this type of skill well because of their lack of interactivity and inability to capture procedural data. Tools such as MicroDYN and MicroFIN have proved to be trustworthy in assessing complex problem-solving performances in the dynamic environments representing li...

On Parmenides' Poem: "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Opinion"

Strategic Cost-Cutting in Information Technology: toward a Framework for Enhancing the Business Value of IT

The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

Iterative Way to Acquire Information Technology for Defense and Aerospace

Defense and Aerospace environment is continuously striving to keep up with increasingly sophisticated Information Technology (IT) in order to remain effective in today’s dynamic and unpredictable threat environment. This makes IT one of the largest and fastest growing expenses of Defense. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent a year on IT projects. But, too many of those millions are wasted on ...