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.

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...

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 ...

This paper studies new properties of the front and back ends of a sorting network, and illustrates the utility of these in the search for new bounds on optimal sorting networks. Search focuses first on the “outsides” of the network and then on the inner part. All previous works focus only on properties of the front end of networks and on how to apply these to break symmetries in the search. The...