Management Policy for Greater Computer Benefits: Friendly Software, Computer Literacy, or Formal Training

Autonomous Software Agents for Computer Network Management

1. Introduction This work presents an alternative for the centralized approach of computer network management [1][2]. In the network management platforms, we usually find passive managers and the agents who just have the function to collect data samples composing the environment. They have no autonomy and network administrator must reach the decision make. This work is investigating what is the...

Software strategies for portable computer energy management

Limiting the energy consumption of computers, especially portables, is becoming increasingly important. Thus, new energy-saving computer components and architectures have been and continue to be developed. Many architectural features have both high performance and low power modes, with the mode selection under software control. The problem is to minimize energy consumption while not significant...

Computer Security in Computer Literacy Education

Computers are a pervasive part of society, even more so on college campuses. Among other skills, it is important that students have a base of understanding related to computer networking and security in order to protect themselves from online threats. Students who study for and pass tests that show their understanding of these topics appear to have a lower rate of computer security related issu...

Copyright: a Too Strong Protection Policy for Computer Software?

Copyright: a Too Strong Protection Policy for Computer Software?