Same Words, Different Meanings: Are Basic IS/IT Concepts Our Self-Imposed Tower Of Babel?

Demolishing the tower of babel.

Rebuilding the Tower of Babel

Anti-virus systems developed by different vendors often demonstrate strong discrepancies in how they name malware, which signficantly hinders malware information sharing. While existing work has proposed a plethora of malware naming standards, most antivirus vendors were reluctant to change their own naming conventions. In this paper we explore a new, more pragmatic alternative. We propose to e...

Transcending the Tower of Babel:

With the advent of location-independent access to massive collections of searchable content on the World Wide Web and the convergence of text, images, audio and video in multimedia computing environments, we have come a long way towards seamless access to the information needed for commerce, security, and society. Language, however, has the potential to balkanize the information space. This cha...

Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings.

We investigate how the evolution of communication strategies affects signal credibility when there is common interest as well as a conflict between communicating individuals. Taking alarm calls as an example, we show that if the temptation to cheat is low, a single signal is used in the population. If the temptation increases cheaters will erode the credibility of a signal, and an honest mutant...

Are EUR and GBP different words for the same currency?

The British Pound (GBP ) is not part of the Euro (EUR) monetary system. In order to find out arguments on whether GBP should join the EUR or not correlations are calculated between GBP exchange rates with respect to various currencies: USD, JPY , CHF , DKK, the currencies forming EUR and a reconstructed EUR for the time interval from 1993 till June 30, 2000. The distribution of fluctuations of ...