The special issue on ICT-based strategies for environmental conflicts to be published in the journal Strategic Behavior and the Environment contains four peer-reviewed articles devoted to the analysis of multi-agents decision problems arising from the exploitation of environmental resources, and where Information and Communications Technologies are crucial for the design and the implementation ...

Today our Nation's security, economic progress, and modern lifestyle all rely upon maintaining a trustworthy digital infrastructure that is resilient and responsive to threats. Critical life-sustaining infrastructures—such as the ones that deliver electricity and water, control air traffic, and support our financial system—all depend on networked information systems making up the Nation's cyber...

Overview Over the past decade the rapid proliferation of electronic commerce technologies has fundamentally transformed the way we conduct business. This trend is expected to accelerate in the coming years due to a number of different factors, including the introduction of new mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies; the wider recognition by business of the strategic advantages offered by ...

This paper highlights the results of the survey undertaken within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia of the issues relating to the migration to cloud computing. The sample survey was administered on the readers of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) members within the ACT and who are also in the strategic management positions to either influence their respective Information Com...

The only sustainable way to avail ourselves of opportunities provided by information and communications technologies (ICTs) for health is when they're folded into a clear, specific political commitment to improve health systems; there are no magic recipes or technologies. Cuba's achievements in using ICTs for health are the result of a social and political process based on universal, equitable ...

The special issue on ICT-based strategies for environmental conflicts to be published in the journal Strategic Behavior and the Environment contains four peer-reviewed articles devoted to the analysis of multi-agents decision problems arising from the exploitation of environmental resources, and where Information and Communications Technologies are crucial for the design and the implementation ...

Yulin Fang is an assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, city university of Hong kong. He earned his Ph.D. at richard Ivey School of Business, university of Western Ontario, london, Ontario. His current research is focused on knowledge management, virtual teams, and open source software projects. He has published papers in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Jou...

BACKGROUND In order to achieve success in future goals and activities, health research centers are required to identify their key success factors. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to extract and rank the factors affecting the success of research centers at one of the medical universities in Iran. METHODS This study is a mixed method (qualitative-quantitative) study, which was conducted between Ma...

The article focuses on the strategic analysis of demand for satellite communications services in telecommunications market, degree development problem, object, topic, initial assumption and goal research. A study market by its key segments was carried out. classification chosen based criterion list’s minimalism not allowing double accounting revenue, which is possible with B2B then B2C chains. ...

in this paper, we consider a cooperative cognitive radio network in which there is an ofdm primary link and multiple single carrier secondary links.the primary link is required to maintain its secrecy rate above a predefined threshold. if the secrecy rate requirement is not satisfied, the secondary system help primary link to maintain its secrecy rate requirement. in doing so, the secondary trans...