High quality and useful knowledge is to be found in the integrated data from various organizations, and the discovered knowledge is essential for building intelligent systems such as business analysis and health surveillance. However, concern about breaching privacy is a major obstacle of this process. This project aims to develop new efficient and effective techniques for privacy protection in...

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both fields could profit from enriching...

I am very pleased to be able to participate in the inauguration of a new university, a new institution for the dissemination and development of knowledge old and new. This is the latest in a long list of similar organizations that, with their innovation and knowledge, have constituted a particularly important contribution to the Western world since the especially creative period that was the Mi...

We extend the Ahlbrandt–Ziegler analysis of interpretability in א0-categorical structures by showing that existential interpretation is controlled by the monoid of self–embeddings and positive existential interpretation of structures without constant endomorphisms is controlled by the monoid of endomorphisms in the same way as general interpretability is controlled by the automorphism group.

Six Sigma has gained popularity recently as it has achieved dramatic benefits in organizations that have understood and implemented its rigorous processes. Some have asked me what the differences are between a Six Sigma system approach to information quality (IQ) and Total Information Quality Management (TIQM), the methodology described in my book Improving Data Warehouse and Business Informati...

T he role of the Human Resource function in firms has changed in parallel with the economic shift from agrarian to manufacturing to services-and now to information . Early on, HR was considered a staff function, not integral to the firm . Its role was administrative or transactional, its work-product often regarded as a commodity . One factor in changing HR's role is the increased reliance on k...