This paper explores the organizational structure and coordination mechanisms used by large ITOvendor organizations. Five global ITO-vendor organizations were studied. The results show that all five use a “front-back hybrid” structure. All five vendors divide their front-end labor pool according to the types of customers that they serve. On the back-end, their labor pools are organized around th...

Three papers will be discussed in this section: Effective Compiler Support for Predicated Execution Using the Hyperblock, by Mahlke et al.; Disjoint Eager Execution: An Optimal Form of Speculative Execution, by Uht and Singdagi; and Selective Eager Execution on the Poly Path Architecture, by Klauser, Paithankar and Grunwald. These papers will close out the “processor front-end” section of the c...

We describe a single framework in which to view the end-to-endindependently-verifiable (E2E) polling-place voting systems with a mixnet back-end. We use the framework to invent new systems that combine front and back-ends from existing systems.

Legacy interface migration is becoming an increasingly important IT activity; many organizations are interested in cost effective and low risk processes for making their legacy systems accessible to new, webbased platforms. Most migration techniques proposed to date require a lot of human expertise. In this paper we discuss Mathaino, an intelligent, multi platform, semi-automated, and low risk ...