This article focuses on transparency in the context of asynchronous method invocation. It describes two solutions available to provide full-transparency: where asynchronism is entirely masked to the developer. The main contribution of this paper is to clearly present the drawbacks of this approach: exception handling and developer consciousness are two problems inherent to full-transparency tha...

Auditors demand financial models be transparent yet no consensus exists on what that means precisely. Without a clear modeling transparency definition we cannot know when our models are ‘transparent’. The financial modeling community debates which methods are more or less transparent as though transparency is a quantifiable entity yet no measures exist. Without a transparency measure modelers c...

Abstract. In FSE 2005, transparency order was proposed as a parameter for the robustness of S-boxes to Differential Power Analysis (DPA): lower transparency order implying more resistance. However most cryptographically strong Boolean functions have been found to have high transparency order. Also it is a difficult problem to search for Boolean functions which are strong cryptographically, and ...

This paper aims to optimize the Central Bank transparency level which corresponds to the minimum of output volatility in 28 states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (due to the maximum data availability) during the period 2003-2014. For this purpose, the Dincer-Eichengreen index is used, which includes five aspects covering political, economic, procedural, policy, and operational trans...

Fully integrated distribution management systems (DMSs) not only need a transparent data architecture which guarantees data consistency, they also have to ensure data correctness for their base system functions and principally for their applications. This paper will present a concept for ensuring data consistency by introducing a so called transparency matrix. In addition, a transparency config...

The Internet has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. Sellers now attract customers with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms that can reveal or conceal market information. We define market transparency as a design dimension for Internetbased selling that involves firm choices about the level of availability and accessibility of...

Transparency is a requirement of businesses and their information systems. It is typically linked to positive ethical and economic attributes, such as trust and accountability. Despite its importance, transparency is often studied as a secondary concept and viewed through the lenses of adjacent concepts such as security, privacy and regulatory requirements. This has led to a reduced ability to ...