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The Impact Of Market Metaphysics On Information Infrastructure Decisions, Bernd Carsten Stahl Dec 2014

The Impact Of Market Metaphysics On Information Infrastructure Decisions, Bernd Carsten Stahl

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One of the most pressing questions that governments and societies have to answer is how to develop the infrastructure of the expected information society. In this paper I will take a look at two archetypical positions: at a state-oriented and a market-oriented view. I will recount the arguments for both sides in order to then demonstrate that all of these arguments are in fact derivatives of the older discussion about state versus market that has been with us at least since Marx. I will then try to show that these arguments are based on metaphysical assumptions about the nature of …


An Exploratory Investigation Of The Learning Styles Of Students In An On-Line Degree Program, Nicholas A. Beadless Ii, Christopher M. Lowery Dec 2014

An Exploratory Investigation Of The Learning Styles Of Students In An On-Line Degree Program, Nicholas A. Beadless Ii, Christopher M. Lowery

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This study is an exploratory investigation into whether different leaning styles predict performance in an online course. Students enrolled in several cohorts of an accredited MBA program were surveyed with regard to their learning styles and those styles were correlated with the grades earned in the course. The program is unique in that the entire program could be completed online.


Discussing Issues Of Information Technology In Country Development, Rami Al-Gharaibeh, William Acar, Andrew G. Kotulic, Thomas J. Froehlich Dec 2014

Discussing Issues Of Information Technology In Country Development, Rami Al-Gharaibeh, William Acar, Andrew G. Kotulic, Thomas J. Froehlich

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The development of countries with laggard economies is becoming a global concern. The harmful complications of poverty and illiteracy are beginning to show up outside those countries in violent forms. The precautions against this migration of harm are splitting the world apart at the same time as technology may become able to bring it together. Over the last few years, information technology (IT) has grown very fast and is still spreading into all aspects of life in developed countries. The recent research in those countries is bringing more evidence that IT is a leveraging tool for business and not a …


Developing A Metrics Framework For The Federal Government In Computer Security Incident Response, Vincent Sritapan, Walter Stewart, Jake Zhu, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr. Jun 2014

Developing A Metrics Framework For The Federal Government In Computer Security Incident Response, Vincent Sritapan, Walter Stewart, Jake Zhu, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr.

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As technology advances and society becomes more dependent on information technology (IT), the exposure to vulnerabilities and threats increases. These threats pertain to industry as well as government information systems. There is, however, a lack in how we measure the performance and create accountability for computer security incident response (CSIR) capabilities. Many government organizations still struggle to determine what security metrics to use and how to find value within these metrics. To fill this apparent gap, a metrics framework has been developed for incident response to serve as an internal analysis, supporting continuous improvement in incident reporting and strengthening the …


Discovering A Joomla Exploit For Possible Malware: Social Engineering And A Php Base64 Gif Exploit, M.S. Terrell Rohm, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr., Haakon Brown Jun 2014

Discovering A Joomla Exploit For Possible Malware: Social Engineering And A Php Base64 Gif Exploit, M.S. Terrell Rohm, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr., Haakon Brown

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his article discusses the importance of Joomla as a Content Management System that is used by 2.7% of the web and how a possible new malware exploit has been discovered. The PHP BASE64 malware exploit is a well-documented exploit of PHP but the implementation of this exploit as it relates to Joomla is a very ingenious method not previously used before, as far as the authors were able to discover. In this particularly case, PHP code is embedded in a GIF file to produce a very sophisticated and unique malware exploit to Joomla.


Digital Media Dependency, Relational Orientation And Socaial Networking Among College Students, C. Mo Bahk, Astrid Sheil, C.E. Taipe Rohm Jr., Frank Lin Jun 2014

Digital Media Dependency, Relational Orientation And Socaial Networking Among College Students, C. Mo Bahk, Astrid Sheil, C.E. Taipe Rohm Jr., Frank Lin

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This study focused on digital media dependency, relational orientation, and demographic variables as potential factors that were relevant to the usage of social networking websites (e.g., MySpace and Facebook) among college students. A total of 258 (101 male and 157 female) students completed the questionnaire that contains the measures of digital media dependency, relational orientation, social networking media usage, and demographic characteristics. The respondents also indicated specific types of things that they disclose (post) on their social media websites. The results showed that relational orientation is positively correlated with the disclosure (posting) of family photos, friends’ photos, and travel photos …


Intelligent Web User Interfaces, Myron Sheu, Xin James He May 2014

Intelligent Web User Interfaces, Myron Sheu, Xin James He

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This paper investigates the key components of an intelligent web user interface to facilitate online investment as a novel approach to compensating for the impersonality of e-commerce. By analyzing challenges to online brokerage services and evaluating key criteria for a viable intelligence system, we develop a decision tree based intelligent web user interfaces model. The resulting intelligent model is intended to help online shoppers avoid common mistakes by means of implicit reasoning, flexible knowledge granularity, and effective reasoning-by-exception, which is significantly different from the traditional approaches that largely rely on assistance from remote control knowledge engines. One of the key …