Untold Stories

Problem-based Learning in Higher Education: Untold Stories

Untold stories: biases and selection effects in research with victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Recent discussions of trafficking research have included calls for more innovative studies and new methodologies in order to move beyond the current trafficking narrative, which is often based on unrepresentative samples and overly simplified images. While new methods can potentially play a role in expanding the knowledge base on trafficking, this article argues that the solution is not entirel...

Untold Stories of ERP Systems Implementation: Role of Ownership and Governance, Scope Management, and Employee Empowerment

Much prior research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation has been conducted in western countries that have different social and organizational cultures from countries in the other parts of the world, such as the Arab World. In this paper, we examine ERP systems implementations in Saudi Arabia which is an important economic frontier in the world. Our key focus was to unde...

Split Contraction: The Untold Story

The edit operation that contracts edges, which is a fundamental operation in the theory of graph minors, has recently gained substantial scientific attention from the viewpoint of Parameterized Complexity. In this paper, we examine an important family of graphs, namely the family of split graphs, which in the context of edge contractions, is proven to be significantly less obedient than one mig...

Object-oriented application frameworks: the untold story

In the past few years software industry and academia have been devoting a lot of attention to object-oriented frameworks. Several frameworks have been proposed in the 90’s and there are projections that application frameworks will be at the core of the technology of the twentyfirst century. However, many development projects fail when trying to apply framework technology. This position paper de...