The Online Behaviour Taxonomy: A conceptual framework to understand behaviour in computer-mediated communication

How to Understand Identity in Anonymous Computer- Mediated Communication?

Ethical Behaviour in Technology-Mediated Communication

In this information age, serious concerns with unethical behaviour in information technology (e.g., software piracy, deception, plagiarism, etc.) have cast doubts on the claims of the unmitigated success of rapid adoption of information technology. Surprisingly, there have been very few studies in information systems (IS) that have tried to understand the general rise in such unethical behaviou...

Reverse-engineering Distributed Applications to Understand Their Behaviour Reverse-engineering Distributed Applications to Understand Their Behaviour

Understanding the behaviour of distributed applications is a very challenging task, due to their complexity. To manage this complexity, the top-down use of suitable abstraction hierarchies is frequently proposed. Given the size of distributed applications, manually deriving such abstraction hierarchies seems not realistic. This paper discusses tools that automate the derivation of suitable abst...

Recycling Behaviour: the Present Focus Brain and a Framework to Understand Personal Differences in Recycling

As the move towards recycling societies seems to be a more or less global trend, there is a need for a better understanding of success and failures factors for recycling activities. Big differences between recycling programs within a country, even within a city, highlight the importance of local conditions and appropriate design and logistics of recycling activities. But although recycling seem...

Information security culture: A Behaviour Compliance Conceptual Framework

Understanding the complex dynamic and uncertain characteristics of organisational employees who perform authorised or unauthorised information security activities is deemed to be a very important and challenging task. This paper presents a conceptual framework for classifying and organising the characteristics of organisational subjects involved in these information security practices. Our fram...