Effective use of information as resource.

Information Security as a Resource

The three-day, international workshop Information Security as a Resource, held in October 2011 at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, brought together mathematical and computer-scientific researchers so as to shed light on the question of exactly how the security (of cryptographic protocols, coin-tossing schemes and similar) can and should be modelled as a resource (akin ...

Training and Effective Employee Information Technology Use

WordNet as a Geographical Information Resource

Geographical entities often appears in very different forms in text collections, such as when a foreign name is used instead of the English one, or when the citation of some region or place omits the name of a larger geographical entity containing them. This is a known problem in the field of Information Retrieval. The use of an ontology like WordNet can help in addressing this issue. In this p...

Managing Process Variants as an Information Resource

Many business solutions provide best practice process templates, both generic as well as for specific industry sectors. However, it is often the variance from template solutions that provide organizations with intellectual capital and competitive differentiation. In this paper, we present a modeling framework that is conducive to constrained variance, by supporting user driven process adaptatio...

Adaptive Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: Effective Use of Information

This paper considers the adaptive robust control of nonlinear systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties and uncertain nonlinearities. The assumption on the allowable uncertain nonlinearities is relaxed to the extent that uncertain nonlinearities are required to be bounded by some known functions multiplied by unknown but bounded time-varying disturbances only. The approach uses robust...