Is " Control Experiment " an Oxymoron?

Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron

The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and desirable for private and public institutions to influence behavior while also respecting freedom of choice. Often people's preferences are unclear and ill-formed, and their choices will inevitably be influenced by default rules, framing effects and starting points. In these circumstances, a form of pa...

Is Knowledge Management Really An ‘Oxymoron’? Unraveling the Role of Organizational Controls in Knowledge Management

The mainstream concept of information technology enabled knowledge management suffers from the limitations embedded in the traditional organizational control model. Although importance of organization control is acknowledged by many authors as critical to the success of knowledge management implementations, however the concept of ‘control’ is often misinterpreted and misapplied. It is the thesi...

Is Law and Liberation an oxymoron?

Oxymoron: Making Fine-Grained Memory Randomization Practical by Allowing Code Sharing

The latest effective defense against code reuse attacks is fine-grained, per-process memory randomization. However, such process randomization prevents code sharing since there is no longer any identical code to share between processes. Without shared libraries, however, tremendous memory savings are forfeit. This drawback may hinder the adoption of fine-grained memory randomization. We present...

Design Research, an Oxymoron?