Game boards or offering tables?

Online discussion boards - friend or foe?

This paper summarises some of the important features of online discussion boards, and some reflections from my experience in their use as both a graduate student and a staff developer. As a student of the UNITEC Master of Computing programme for the past three years I have experienced the use of discussion boards by a variety of tutors, and have used these experiences to inform my practice as a...

The Game of the Name in Cryptographic Tables

We present a name-passing calculus that can be regarded as a simpli ed calculus equipped with a cryptographic table. The latter is a data structure representing the relationships among names. We apply the calculus to the modelling and veri cation of secrecy and authenticity properties in cryptographic protocols relying on symmetric shared keys. Following classical approaches [8], we formulate t...

The Game of the Name in Cryptographi Tables

Second Life: game, simulator, or serious game?

Ten years after being launched in 2003, it is still a matter of discussion if Second Life (SL) is a virtual world, a computer game, a shopping site or a talker (communication software based on a MUD). This article reports on an exploratory case study conducted to analyze the Second Life (SL) environment and determine into which of training simulators, games, simulation games, or serious games c...

Factors Affecting the Characteristics of Boards of Directors: An Empirical Study of New Zealand Initial Public Offering Firms

This study examines the associations between the characteristics of boards ship) (e.g., Jensen, 1993), have been argued by researchers to be better able to monitor management. of directors of initial public offering (IPO) firms and the availability of growth opportunities and level of inside share ownership of these firms. Regulatory agencies in different countries view certain characteristics ...