This study draws upon the technology acceptance model as the theoretical basis and empirical findings for a pragmatic explanation of key factors affecting personal computing acceptance in small firms. The study uses results from a survey of 358 users in small firms in New Zealand to test a structural model examining the hypothesized relationships among the following constructs: intraorganizatio...

This paper is a survey of user risks associated with the Personal Server concept. The Personal Server concept is used as a surrogate for future mobile devices. The risks are threats involving security, privacy and trust. An overview of the concept is provided, followed by descriptions of three usage models: mobile storage, application server, and beacon receiver. Each usage model description in...

Techniques in conjunction with an implemented environment are described for the visual monitoring and analysis of port activity. The goal is to provide the ability to detect anomalous or mischievous activity on an individual system basis. Such capabilities would allow individual users of systems to garner greater insight into the network activity of their system than is currently provided by ty...

Ubiquitous computing (or ambient intelligence) has been the subject of research in the mobile telecommunications field for many years. Developments such as the Internet of Services and Grid computing have complemented and strengthened this work. The ubiquitous computing paradigm integrates information processing into the objects that surround us in our environment. One particular focus has been...

We present a embedding of Lewis Deontic logics in PUC-Logic. We achieve this by representing the very basic CO logic and showing its relative completeness.

Internet Suspend/Resume (ISR) is an exciting new model for managing client machines in the enterprise. ISR provides the administrative benefits of central management without sacrificing the performance benefits of thick-client, personal computing. This capability is made possible through the novel combination of two wellunderstood technologies: virtual machines and distributed storage managemen...

The current era of internet-facilitated bigger data, better tools, and collective intelligence community computing is accelerating advances in many areas ranging from artificial intelligence to knowledge generation to public health. In the health sector, data volumes are growing with genomic, phenotypic, microbiomic, metabolomic, self-tracking, and other data streams. Simultaneously, tools are ...

Recent advances in wireless networking technology and the exponential development of semiconductor technology have engendered a new paradigm of computing, called personal mobile computing or ubiquitous computing. This offers a vision of the future with a much richer and more exciting set of architecture research challenges than extrapolations of the current desktop architectures. In particular,...

Like the autonomic responses in the human body, autonomic computing systems recognise their own health problems and where possible respond to correct them. Failing that, external help is required. The purpose of this paper is to consider how autonomic systems might be structured to facilitate health monitoring. The approach uses a 'pulse' monitor for each autonomic element, which provides a ref...

Techniques in conjunction with an implemented environment are described for the visual monitoring and analysis of port activity. The goal is to provide the ability to detect anomalous or mischievous activity on an individual system basis. Such capabilities would allow individual users of systems to garner greater insight into the network activity of their system than is currently provided by ty...