This real-world inspired case describes an ethical dilemma for a recently hired auditor and new Certified Public Accountant (CPA)/Associate Chartered (ACA) who must choose between cheating on mandatory firm audit training exam suffering the possibility of negatively affecting her advancement with future compensation. The purpose this is to provide students opportunity identify dilemma, apply ac...

Object-oriented programming languages lack high-level support for platform-independent service interactions. In Java, for instance, the burden of guaranteeing sustainable interoperability is put entirely on the programmer. Java Remote Method Invocation requires its invocation targets to be remote Java objects, so Web Services and other targets can never be invoked without verbose interactions w...

This paper presents protocols and strategies for coalition formation with incomplete information under time constraints. It focuses on strategies for coalition members to distribute revenues amongst themselves. Such strategies should preferably be stable, lead to a fair distribution, and maximize the social welfare of the agents. These properties are only partially supported by existing coaliti...

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...