This paper identifies 10 essential aspects, which, if not taken into account in an information security governance plan, will surely cause the plan to fail, or at least, cause serious flaws in the plan. These 10 aspects can be used as a checklist by management to ensure that a comprehensive plan has been defined and introduced. a 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

When planning systems deal with realistic domains , they must cope with a large variety of constraints imposed by the environment such as temporal or resource constraints The ro-bustness of the generated plan is a direct consequence of a correct handling of these constraints We argue that increasing the expres-siveness of a representation can be achieved without fundamentally affecting the glob...

nowadays planning a strategic management system using appropriate tools and technologies to reduce the negative consequences resulting from lack of proper waste management in rural areas is essential. it was tried that in the study population which includes approximately 74/37 percent of the minab city's population to collect data from surveys of people attending in person and through ques...

A vexing problem in managing sales forces occurs when the sales manager does not know the characteristics of a sales territory. In this paper we show how sales quota-bonus plans can be optimally used to learn about unknown territory characteristics over a multiperiod horizon. We demonstrate this process in two scenarios—one in which the sales manager and the rep are symmetrically informed about...

Replication of the most popular objects is often used in distributed data provision systems to reduce access time and improve availability. In fact, a given replica placement scheme may have to be redefined as object popularity changes. Given two replica placement schemes X and X, the Replica Migration Problem (RMP) is to compute a schedule of replica transfers and deletions that lead from X to...

Analysis is an important part of the Enterprise Architecture Management Process. Prior to decisions regarding transformation of the Enterprise Architecture, the current situation and the outcomes of alternative action plans have to be analyzed. Many analysis approaches have been proposed by researchers and current Enterprise Architecture Management tools implement analysis functionalities. Howe...

This paper identifies instituional arrangmenets and characteristics which either facilitate or impede regional cooperation in municipal solid waste management. The research draws upon an examination of five solid waste regions formed in Tennessee in 1992 in response to state legislation requiring development of comprehensive solid waste management plans. Characteristics and institutional arrang...

Many of the models and approaches outlined in other chapters of this book address single marketing issues (promotional spending, pricing, salesforce deployment, etc.) within the context of any organization where other factors are assumed constant. For the most part, such approaches are 'bottom-up', and closely akin to the operational philosophy of traditional ORIMS. Consider, in contrast, a lar...