The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
IT system risk assessments are indispensable due to increasing cyber threats within our ever-growing IT systems. Moreover, laws and regulations urge organizations to conduct risk assessments regularly. Even though there exist several risk management frameworks and methodologies, they are in general high level, not defining the risk metrics, risk metrics values and the detailed risk assessment formulas...
End-to-end latency of serving jobs in distributed and shared environments, such as a Cloud, is an important metric for jobs' owners and infrastructure providers. Yet it is notoriously challenging to model precisely, since it is affected by a large collection of unrelated moving pieces, from the software design to the job schedulers strategies. In this work we present a novel approach to modeling latency,...
The paper describes the creation of a novel cloud broker created to provide efficient cloud brokering services for a government organization in India — the BroCUR. The BroCUR works in a volunteer federated, distributed schema with control being executed using a combination of threshold based metrics and triggers which launch task migration. The novel aspect of the BroCUR is the inclusion of the human...
Key performance indicators are used by some large enterprises to alert executives to opportunities and dangers. Executives seek "leading indicators" to help them make decision early enough to make a difference. In large enterprises adopting agile practices, managers sometimes use behavioral compliance metrics to help teams self-assess or to gauge how practices are performed. These often...
Nowadays, individuals (customers) are in contact with various organizations to meet their particular needs. As an integrated and unique database is not used in the different organizations, individuals have different identity numbers (IDs) and obviously do not memorize all of them. Also, from the psychological perspective, customers like to use their name as their identity, not a customer number or...
According to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)), the US Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes that there is a “persistent lack of a consistent approach … for the certification of software assurance tools, testing and methodologies” [1]. As a result, the ASD(R&E) is seeking “to address vulnerabilities and weaknesses to cyber threats of...
The emergence of many wireless standards is introducing the need of flexible multi-standard baseband receivers. To address this issue and to face the increasing demand of higher throughput for new greedy applications on mobile devices recent works propose multi-ASIP platforms for decoding algorithms. Furthermore dynamic evolution of communication parameters combined with the reduction of latency between...
Effective integration of knowledge from merged enterprises is an important means to improve M&A performance in the integration process afterwards. This paper discusses the connotation and measurement of knowledge integration capability, organizational learning orientation and core competence after M&A of enterprises, analyzes relations among them and lastly proposes a concept model and underlying...
The selection of learning objects according with the student profile and the reutilization of existing objects, represents an important element in the quality of learning process. This paper presents a proposal to facilitate the analysis and improvement of SCORM learning objects. Our approach is based on the pedagogic dimension represented by the learning styles and teaching strategies. We describe...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.