Organizations that use private information typically must provide assurances to regulators that their practices ensure that regulations are met. However, to the extent that they rely on electronic information systems for the management of private information, they really have no basis for providing those assurances. This paper proposes a framework for the design and implementation of informatio...

High-bandwidth applications with time-dependent resource requirements demand certain resource level assurances in order to operate correctly. Quality of Service resource management techniques are being successfully developed that allow network systems to provide such assurances. These solutions generally assume that the operating system at either end of the network is capable of handling the th...

Interaction between entities who may not trust each other is now commonplace on the Internet. This paper focuses on the specific problem of sharing information between distrusting parties. Previous work in this area shows that privacy and utility can co-exist, but often do not provide strong assurances of one or the other. In this paper, we sketch a research agenda with several directions for a...

abstract: the gap between supplied services and people’s expectations is a fundamental problem upon the connection between municipality and citizens. the main objective of this research is to survey the synchronization measure of supplied services by mashhad’s municipality toward mashhad citizens’ expectations. descriptive and analytical methods are implemented in this research. chosen sa...