China will develop much greater depth and sophistication in its understanding and handling of information warfare techniques and operations. With Indian security becoming increasingly dependent on date processing and network centricity, it will become extremely vulnerable to such information warfare campaigns. India needs to adopt a multidisciplinary approach towards dealing with the emerging c...

To create the Pilot, DSHS contracted with the Thurston-Mason Regional Support Network (RSN), which contracted with Behavioral Health Resources (BHR) as the lead agency for implementation. A core team was established, consisting of the RSN, BHR, DSHS Children and Family Services, Mason County Juvenile Court, Community Youth Services, and the University of Washington. The team assessed the needs ...

This paper empirically studies a group of projects in a large bureaucratic government agency that adopted iterative and incremental development (IID). We found that a project that followed IID since inception provided substantially better bug-fixing responsiveness and found bugs earlier in the development lifecycle than existing projects that migrated to IID. IID practices also supported manage...

Lead scientist's background (scientific and aircraft measurements background and experience, English level)More than 10 years experience in satellite remote sensing. PI on several projects with the European Space Agency (ESA) and DLR (TerraSAR-X mission). Visiting Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. First degree in Physics/Applied Mathematics (major in Astronomy). Masters degr...

New Zealand’s Defence Technology Agency (DTA) has developed a model to explore new methodologies for modelling warfare. The model, Map-Aware Non-Uniform Automata (MANA), is based on the ideas of complexity science, and is intended to capture at least some of the non-linear dynamics inherent in actual combat. It does so by treating the many “intangible” aspects of combatant behaviour in terms of...

The language/action perspective (LAP) as orginally introduced by Winograd and Flores has inspired several tools and information system design methodologies. The goal of this article is to make the communication norms underlying various LAP workflow loop models (DEMO, ActionWorkflow) explicit and to contrast them with the auditing norms of internal control. It appears that the communicative acti...

We examine the unique nature of agency problems within publicly traded family firms by investigating the earnings management decision of dominant family owners relative to nonfamily. To do so, we draw upon literature demonstrating that family owners are loss averse with respect to the family’s socioemotional wealth (SEW), or the affective endowment derived from firm ownership and control. Our t...

The authors explore the possible relationship between student satisfaction with online learning and the theory of psychological contracts. The study incorporates latent trait models using the image analysis procedure and computation of Anderson and Rubin factors scores with contrasts for students who are satisfied, ambivalent, or dissatisfied with their online learning experiences. The findings...

in this study, the effect of audit quality on agency costs and information asymmetry has been examined. among the accepted companies 99 ones in tehran stock exchange were selected for statistical samples from 1385 to 1392 in order to attain the research purposes. to measure the audit quality, it has been used the observable variables such as the percentage of institutional investors, the type o...