GOOD COPS? BAD COPS? Assessing the South African Police Service

Bad Lady Cops : Explaining Sex Differences in Police Officer Misconduct

COPS: Quality of Service vs. Any Service at All

Today’s networks are awash in illegitimate traffic: port scans, propagating worms, and illegal peer-to-peer transfers of materials [1]. This “noise” has created such a crescendo that legitimate traffic is starved for network resources. Essential network services, like DNS and remote file systems, are rendered unavailable. The challenge is no longer “quality of service” but rather “any service a...

COPs IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL WORLD

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are developing in importance for the organizational world. In the field of knowledge management there is increasing importance being placed on the social aspects of knowledge and how it can be managed, as opposed to how technology can be utilized. Technology, it is now being argued as a supportive mechanism rather than a driver for the management of knowledge. Peo...

Multimedia Authoring for CoPs

One way of providing technological support for CoPs is to help participants to produce, structure and share information. As this information becomes more and more multimedia in nature, the challenge is to build multimedia authoring and publishing tools that meets CoPs requirements. In this paper we analyze these requirements and propose a multimedia authoring model and a generic platform on whi...

CoPS - Team Description Stuttgart -

This paper presents the hardware and software design principles of the medium size RoboCup Team CoPS which are developed by the image understanding group at the Institute for Parallel and Distributed High Performance Systems (IPVR) of the University of Stuttgart. By adapting already successfully tested multiagent software concepts by our group to the domain of robotic soccer we intend to improv...