The advent of power quality sensitive equipment has made the provision of good power quality a real challenge across the globe. With the increasing usage of sophisticated sensitive electronic equipment in industrial, residential and commercial sectors, it is important to protect them from any power quality disturbance in order to avoid equipment damage and malfunction leading to financial loss ...

With its GoMobile project, the City of Seattle is pioneering the utilization of fully mobile wirelessly connected (FMWC) technology applications in fieldwork operations with the aim of significantly improving its operational effectiveness and efficiency as well as its quality of service. Our study analyzes and assesses the efficacy of this prototypical mobile Government project. Preliminary fin...

Economic perspectives have raised growing attention in recent data quality (DQ) literature, as studies have associated DQ decisions with major cost-benefit tradeoffs. Despite the growing interest, DQ research has not yet developed a robust, agreedupon view for assessing and studying the link between DQ and economic outcome. As a contribution, this study proposes a framework, which links costs t...

In spite of the tremendous privacy and liability benefits of anonymization, most shared data today is only pseudonymized. The reason is simple: there haven’t been any anonymization technologies that are general purpose, easy to use, and preserve data quality. This paper presents the design of Diffix, a new approach to database anonymization that promises to break new ground in the utility/priva...

State-of-the-art mobile computing environments must deal with scarce and dynamically varying resources-in particular, the network quality of service. Applications which execute in such environments need to adapt to the dynamic operating conditions in order to preserve the illusion of seamlessness for the end-user as far as possible. This paper proposes a framework for adaptation which provides ...

[Context & motivation] For market-driven software product developing organizations operating on a competitive open market, it is important to plan the product’s releases so that they can reach the market as early as possible with a competitive level of quality compared to its competitors’ products. Hence, quality requirements can be seen as a key competitive advantage. The QUPER model was devel...