Politics and policies: making change happen

Making Security Awareness Happen

INTRODUCTION This article focuses on the first step of providing computer and information system security — developing and implementing an effective security awareness program. One might wonder why security awareness is not considered the same as training. The simple answer: because the desired outcome of each is different. The goal of a security awareness program is to heighten the importance ...

Making Things Happen

We explore some logics of change, focusing on commands to change the world in such a way that certain elementary propositions become true or false. This investigation starts out from the following two simplifying assumptions: (1) the world is a collection of facts (Wittgenstein), and (2), the world can be changed by changing elementary facts (Marx). These assumptions allow us to study the logic...

Making meaning happen

What is it for a sound or gesture to have a meaning, and how does it come to have one? In this paper, a range of simulations are used to extend the tradition of theories of meaning as use. The authors work throughout with large spatialized arrays of sessile individuals in an environment of wandering food sources and predators. Individuals gain points by feeding and lose points when they are hit...

Making Swarming Happen

The concept of swarming has been invoked to describe both human military tactics and the behavior of simple biological systems. Most research on the underlying mechanisms of swarming is in the biological community, and it is often not clear how these can be implemented in military systems. This paper reviews several architectures that have shown promise for generating swarming behavior in milit...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen