We were tasked by a global leader in healthcare to look into making the organization more secure by creating a training program that focused on employee habits. By adapting a model from consumer behavior to information security, we were able to find strong correlations between habit creation and security threats such as phishing, unauthorized cloud computing use, and password sharing.

We study leader election in unidirectional rings of homonym processes that have no a priori knowledge on the number of processes. We show that message-terminating leader election is impossible for any class of rings Kk with bounded multiplicity k ≥ 2. However, we show that process-terminating leader election is possible in the subclass U∗ ∩ Kk, where U ∗ is the class of rings which contain a pr...

This paper addresses the safe navigation of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots in shared areas. Obstacle avoidance for mobile robots is performed by artificial potential fields and special traffic rules. In addition, the behavior of mobile robots is optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO). The control of non-holonomic vehicles is performed using the virtual leader principle together wit...

We study the value of commitment in contests and tournaments when there are costs for the follower to observe the leader’s behavior. In a contest, the follower can pay to observe the leader’s e¤ort but cannot observe the e¤ectiveness of that e¤ort. In a tournament, the follower can pay to observe the e¤ectiveness of the leader’s e¤ort but not the e¤ort itself. We show that this distinction matt...

This study tested the hypothesis that cigarette smoking adoption among adolescents could be suppressed by providing school-based videotape instruction for resisting social influences to smoke. The utilization of same-age peer leaders was also varied to test whether their participation in the classroom would enhance program effects. Seventh grade students (N = 540) from one junior high school in...

Article history: Received 6 January 2012 Revised 24 August 2012 Accepted 25 August 2012 Available online 19 September 2012 Drawing on the general aggression model and theories of victimization and temperamental goodness-of-fit, we investigated trait anger and trait anxiety as antecedents of petty tyranny: employing a multilevel design with data from 84 sea captains and 177 crew members. Leader ...

Although a number of researchers have examined and demonstrated the unique relationships different types of leaders develop with their followers (Dansereau, F., Graen, G.B., & Haga, W.J. (1975). A vertical dyad linkage approach to leadership within formal organizations: A longitudinal investigation of the role making process. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 13, 46–78.; Dienesh & ...