Mary Hoffschwelle (faculty) History A new learning community consisting of two required general education classes, Tennessee History and Tennessee Science, is being offered for the first time at Middle Tennessee State University. This collaboration is catching the interests of non-major students who are sometimes nervous about taking a required science class and companion laboratory. The learni...

This paper describes the system used by the LIPN-IIMAS team in the Task 2, Semantic Textual Similarity, at SemEval 2015, in both the English and Spanish sub-tasks. We included some features based on alignment measures and we tested different learning models, in particular Random Forests, which proved the best among those used in our participation.

Hashim, Matthew J. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2011. Nudging the Digital Pirate: Piracy and the Conversion of Pirates to Paying Customers. Major Professors: Karthik N. Kannan and Jackie M. Rees Ulmer. Digital piracy is a significant source of concern facing software developers, music labels, and movie production companies. The current legal and technological strate­ gies for mitigating t...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the situation of Internet music piracy has become increasingly serious. In particular, the exchange mode of music downloading as a form of peer-to-peer electronic commerce is gaining fast acceptance in the user community. However, the exchange mode of music downloading is also particularly prone to being misused for music piracy. It is the...

This research revisits the issue of software piracy in the emerging mobile apps market. The study seeks to empirically examine the controversial impact of piracy on the market performance of the legitimate apps. In particular, the study attempts to empirically examine how the presence (or absence) of free app affects the extent of piracy, and consequently, the adoption of the paid apps in the m...

Mobile cloud computing is a new technology that enhances smartphone applications capabilities in terms of performance, energy efficiency, and execution support. These features are achieved via computation offloading technique that is supported by specialized mobile cloud application development models. However, the cloud-enabled applications are prone to application piracy issue for which the t...

Most behavioural aspects of software piracy research are a subset of ethical research. Measures of ethical behaviour in research may be subject to biases in response to the social desirability of behaviours. Few studies in the area of software piracy have explicitly addressed this issue. Literature on social desirability bias (SDB) reports on three ways to address response bias: approaches to r...

One of the main issues usually associated with piracy is that it hinders innovation. As this leads to smaller profits, firms have no incentive to innovate. In this article, we show that even if piracy is usually seen as innovation “killer” it may, on the contrary, increase innovation: piracy places firms in a highly competitive environment and pushes them to innovate continuously in order to ma...