“Driven by a desire to get paid more quickly, companies are moving more of their invoices and payment to the internet. Businesses care more about faster cash flow than they do about cutting costs.” (GartnerGroup, 2001). Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) is targeted to the needs of corporates and can be integrated with e-marketplaces and B2B financial settlement for bank-neutral ...

Numerous are the publications dealing with contraceptive efficacy, and even more numerous are statistical details. Such interest in efficacy does not come as a surprise as for most women and their care providers interested in birth control or family planning, efficacy of contraceptive methods together with safety are the primary concerns. Interestingly enough precisely this highly important iss...

Product strategy is extremely critical to high-tech companies. The market continuously evaluates and rewards or punishes competitors based primarily on the success or failure of their products. Because of the dynamic nature of high-tech markets, product strategy becomes even more critical than in other industries. This strategy cannot be static, but must be constantly adapting to the changes in...

As the popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) continues to grow, the research on what affects user intentions is also experiencing increased attention. This study investigates the effect of privacy and trust in other SNS users on trust in the SNS and the relationship between trust in the SNS, social norms and the intention to use an SNS. Data collected from online surveys were analyzed us...

Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) can assist corporate treasurers in cash management and can be integrated with e-marketplaces and other B2B financial settlement activities. Its interactive approach to dispute resolution and robust payment options are critical if corporate financiers are to secure the advantages of B2B marketplaces and straight through processing (STP). Cash man...

Strongly influenced by a Quinean naturalism, I have presented two arguments against the a priori: first, I claim to undermine the motivation for the a priori; second, I claim to demonstrate the obscurity of the a priori (1996, 1998, 2002, 2005a,b, 2011, 2012). 1 Carrie Jenkins (this volume) is critical of both arguments. Drawing to some extent on her interesting book Grounding Concepts: An Empi...

We postulate that regulatory compliance pressures that have forced information security out of obscurity and into the corporate boardroom provide economic justification for information security firms to innovate. We aim to establish the link between regulations and innovation through the intermediary of demand for information security products and services. First, we show from the results of a ...

Program obfuscation is a widely employed approach for software intellectual property protection. However, general obfuscation methods (e.g., lexical obfuscation, control obfuscation) implemented in mainstream obfuscation tools are heuristic and have little security guarantee. Recently in 2013, Garg et al. have achieved a breakthrough in secure program obfuscation with a graded encoding mechanis...

Light-cone dominance is established for a particular set of semi-inclusive observables in e+e− hadronic annihilation. This allows to deduce, with a certain degree of rigor, the angular distribution of hadronic energy from first principles, without invoking quark-hadron duality. ⋆ Address until August 31st, 1998. ⋆⋆ Permanent address.

We present an approach to recover scenes deteriorated by reeections oo a semi-reeecting medium. The approach is based on imaging through a polarizer at two diierent orientations. We analyze the image formation process taking into account changes in the reeection and polarization properties due to internal reeections within the medium. Reconstruction by inverting this process requires the estima...