The fields of study encompassed by cyber science and engineering are broad and poorly defined at this time. As national governments and research communities increase their recognition of the importance, urgency and technical richness of these disciplines, a question of priorities arises: what specific sub-areas of research should be the foci of attention and funding? In this paper we point to a...

Macroeconomic forecasts are used extensively in industry and government despite the lack of accuracy and reliability. Prediction markets as a community forecasting method have begun to gain interest in academia industry alike. An open question is how to design incentive schemes and feedback mechanisms to motivate online communities to contribute and thereby increase the predictive power of the ...

The increasingly strategic use of patents, and their importance for competitive advantage, pose special challenges for small high-tech firms. This paper seeks to add to our understanding of the strategic and economic effects of patents by exploring why small high-tech firms take out patents – and why not – and how these choices are linked to these firms’ broader business and technology strategi...

We address computer support for work and its coordination in one of the radio channels of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Based upon ethnographically inspired analysis and participatory design techniques, we propose design solutions now implemented or under implementation. We focus on cooperative aspects within and among the radio channel's editonal units, and between editorial units and t...

Zhuhai is a beautiful city located in south china. Through 20 years of development, Zhuhai has become a garden-like modern city. At present, Zhuhai functions as a Special Economic Zone, a Nation high-tech Developing Zone and a Duty-Free Industrial Zone simultaneously. Its GDP increased from 200 million RMB in 1979 to 23.5 billion RMB in 1997. The actual foreign direct investment volume increase...

This paper revisits the induced innovation literature of the 1960s to which Phelps was a major contributor (Drandakis and Phelps, 1965). This literature was the first systematic study of the determinants of technical change and also the first investigation of the relationship between factor prices and technical change. I present a modern reformulation of this literature based on the tools devel...

CSCW systems provide computer support to facilitate cooperation between users. This paper proposes an approach to the formal speciication of security requirements for CSCW applications, where a CSCW application is viewed as a collection of activities that users may participate in. The speciication approach is straightforward, and can be used to capture a wide variety of security requirements, i...

This chapter is intended to provide an overview of the operational considerations and potential obstacles that can be anticipated during the implementation of pharmacogenomic research in clinical trials. Particular attention is given to the elements of the protocol and of the informed consent and the considerations for collection of different sample types on a global level. The goal is to provi...

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The case describes the challenges faced by IT managers at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in their efforts to upgrade the Bureau’s IT infrastructure while developing the largest, most complex strategic application ever attempted at the Bureau. After expending 15 years of effort and $400 million, the BLM cancelled the program. The case identifies obstacles faced by IT and non-IT manager...