SCEL (Service Component Ensemble Language) is a new language specifically designed to rigorously model and program autonomic components and their interaction, while supporting formal reasoning on their behaviors. SCEL brings together various programming abstractions that allow one to directly represent aggregations, behaviors and knowledge according to specific policies. It also naturally suppo...

Compliance and systems misuse has been the focus of researchers in the last couple of years. However, given that voids in this area is still significant and systems abuse is a pressing issue likely to persist in the future, more investigation is needed in this area. Toward this end, we conducted a research study to help understand factors motivating compliance behavior intentions. Drawing on Th...

IS managers are being put under increasing pressure to justify the value of corporate IT/IS expenditure. Their constant quest for the ‘holy grail’ continues, as existing methods and approaches of justifying IT/IS expenditure are still failing to deliver. The decision making process is not as objective and transparent as it is claimed or intended to be. This paper discusses seven commonly used t...

Objective: To assess public awareness of cancer warning signs, anticipated delay, and perceived barriers to seeking medical advice in the British population. Methods: We carried out a population-based survey using face-to-face, computerassisted interviews to administer the Cancer Awareness Measure (CAM), a newlydeveloped, validated measure of cancer awareness. The sample included 2216 adults (9...

Determining the physical location of the users of a multi-agent system is essential if we want it to provide them with context-awareness services. A context-aware system can answer to the requests of its users in a more effective way, being able of consider the conditioners that affect them. Here we present SMAUG, a multiagent context-aware system aimed at managing the university tasks of tutor...

The primary goal of this study is to examine the relationship between managerial information security awareness and managerial actions toward information security for the purpose of putting stress on the significant roles of managerial information security awareness in an organization’s total information security performance. Under the assumption that managerial actions toward information secur...

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Background & Aims of the Study: Solid waste management is one of the most daunting environmental challenges. The present study aimed to investigate the awareness and practice of people about household waste management in Kermanshah, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was carried out on 150 Kermanshah citizens in 2017. Cluster sampling was performe...

To the Editor: We read with great interest the results of the largest Bispectral Index (BIS) monitoring study ever performed, which was published in the October 2012 issue of Anesthesiology.1 No significant difference in intraoperative awareness with explicit recall was detected between BIS and anesthetic concentration protocols (0.08 vs. 0.12%, P = 0.48) in an unselected surgical population of...