Stephen D. Smith1, Warren A. Brown2, Charles R. Smith3, and Milo E. Richmond3,4 1Institute for Resource Information Systems, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2Institute for Social Economic Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 3Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 4U.S. Geological Survey, New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Cornell...

Services are becoming increasingly important in modern economies. Information technology provides most of the needed infrastructure to support the proper delivery of these services. In this paper, we adopt Covey’s [1] behaviors for trust to help improve the trustworthiness of IT-based service-oriented organizations. We develop checklists to qualitatively assess the level of trustworthiness of t...

CHORUS is a Coordination Action, a specific type of project funded by the European commission under its research programmes, intended to bring together research projects with common goals, in the field of search technologies for digital audio-visual content, one of the strategic objectives of the current research frame program. CHORUS coordinates a number of research projects in the general are...

Marine wildlife tourism can benefit both conservation and communities when managed effectively. The Wildlife Tourism Model (WTM) is a framework used to assess sustainability. This paper illustrates how two aspects of the model, the Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) and zoning can be linked to improve management direction. Four of the nine steps of the LAC process were applied to identify sustai...

This study investigates cross-border collaboration between beef organisations in Australia and Singapore. It aims to identify factors impacting trust and technology diffusion by gauging gaps between expected importance and perceived performance rating of the factors. The research presents results of a survey comprising 69 beef organisations from Australia and Singapore. The research identifies ...

Contemporary conception of information has been studied for decades. Starting from legal viewpoint, purpose of this article is to provide methodological understanding of the conception and classification of information in the domain of law, and the challenge it poses to the traditional legal system. In this article, information is classified into five categories according to the value it has an...

In this paper, we present a cognitive model of the information acquisition process in highly interactive tasks. The model is based on GOMS and extends the perceptual operation necessary to encode the visual information from the external world. To build the model, we observed users’ behavior in an interactive task. “Pac-Man”, a realtime computer game, was chosen as an example of the task. The re...

The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics differs greatly and final scores for systems are typically based on the mean average. However, the topics which are relatively easy to solve, have a much larger impact on the final system ranking than hard topics. This pap...