Against the backdrop of new economic realities, one of the larger forces that is affecting businesses worldwide is cloud computing, whose benefits include agility, time to market, time to capability, reduced cost, etc. The intent of this research was to contribute to the body of knowledge that could be applied by researchers, businesses, and IT organizations alike to achieve optimal results by ...

Cloud computing provides several benefits to organizations such as increased flexibility, scalability and reduced cost. However, it provides several challenges for digital forensics and criminal investigation. Some of these challenges are the dependence of forensically valuable data on the deployment model, multiple virtual machines running on a single physical machine and multiple tenancies of...

Context – Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is a modern business strategy for developing high quality software at low-wage countries at reduced cost. Outsourcing is a contract based association between vendor and client organization, where a client organization contracts-out with vendor organization for software development work to be provided by vendor organization in return for...

Charlie has been an outstanding mentor, helped to expand my interest in government technology, and is the reason I became involved with this project. I would also like to give a very special thanks to John Weathersby, Executive Director of the Open Source Software Institute and Andy Stein, Director of Information Technology for the City of Newport News, Virginia for their insights, support, can...

A new method to deal with reduced dynamics of open systems by means of the Schrödinger equation is presented. It allows one to consider the reduced time evolution for correlated and uncorrelated initial conditions.

Software services offer many opportunities like reduced cost for IT infrastructure. They also introduce new risks, for example the clients lose control over their data. While data can be secured against external threats using standard techniques, the service providers themselves have to be trusted to ensure privacy. In this paper, we examine methods that can increase the level of privacy a serv...

natural hazards such as earthquakes have threatened the life of human beings during the history.as a consequence, the vibration mitigation of structures has caught great importance. activecontrol of structures is one of the rapidly emerging areas in the concept of structural control. thispaper presents a control method to deal with this subject when the dynamics of the structure ishysteretic an...