Information Systems Security (ISS) is a relevant fact for current organizations. This paper focuses on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This article aims to constitute an empirical study on the applicability of the Action Research (AR) method in information systems, more specifically by assessing the adoption of an ISS policy in six SMEs, and identifying the critical success factors i...

Teaching computer information systems via distance education is a challenge for both student and faculty. Much research work has been performed on methods of success for teaching via distance education. Less work has been undertaken on how these methods fit into the unique issues associated with computer information systems. This paper reviews much of the work done on identifying issues of dist...

For nearly 30 years, since its introduction onto corporate management scene in the early 1970s, strategic planning has been on a roller coaster ride. Nearly a decade later strategic information systems planning was put on the same track but that does not mean we have to stay on the same track or that we have to take it at the same speed. If we know what is ahead we can speed up and if we know w...

In the academic year 2001-2, Pace University CSIS students served the community by developing real-world computer information systems for actual customers. We describe the general use of team projects in CSIS at Pace University, the real-world projects from this academic year, the benefits of including real-world projects in the curriculum, and their cost in terms of the instructor load and the...

Ethics has typically been considered an essential facet of secure interconnection of information systems. In closed networks common ethics among users is a valid assumption, and various models for the management of information security have been proposed where ethics governs various operational and managerial information security related tasks. Emergence of open, public networks, such as the In...

Advances in computer, surveying, and mapping technology have had a marked impact on the economic barriers to multipurpose land information systems. This has opened the way for institutional innovations that may help to achieve the data sharing and spatial registration objectives identified in the I960 National Research Council report on Multipurpose Cadastre.

People’s ability to learn increases when working together with peers, where the peers act as an information source for the individual. Office Information Systems has been constructed to encourage such communication with synchronous and asynchronous services. By using experiences made within the field of Digital Libraries, more advanced use of metadata can be achieved in these services, opening ...

The INWA Grid went ‘live’ in December 2003, connecting Curtin Business School in Western Australia through the US to EPCC in Edinburgh, making it one of the longest distance and longest running Grid-based ‘collaboratories’ in the Social Sciences. Stable network connections between Australia and China were established in January 2005, allowing the extension of INWA to the network centre of the C...

あらまし パターン認識の究極の目標は認識率 100%の達成であるが,誤認識が全く起こらない識別器の設計は容易で はない.そこで,本報告では認識誤りを補うために正解クラスに関する情報 (付加情報)をパターンとは別に用意し, パターンと付加情報を識別器に同時に与えることで認識率 100%かつリジェクト率 0%を達成する方式を提案する.そ して,提案する方式で達成可能な認識率やリジェクト率とそれに必要な情報量の関係を求める.実験の結果,印刷さ れたかな・漢字 3036字種ではオープン実験で 4ビット,クローズ実験で 1ビットの情報の付加で認識率 100%かつリ ジェクト率 0%を達成できることが示された.また,認識を全く行わずに文字コードの情報をそのまま使用する場合に 比べると,提案する方式で必要な情報量は約 1/12,QRコードの面積換算では約 1/9である.従って,提案する方式 は従来...