A number of IT offshore outsourcing projects fall short of being successful due to cultural issues. We performed an analysis of variance on Global Outsourcing Index data of CIOInsight.com and found that while cost is significantly important in determining the index as expected, the best scenario/treatment surprisingly is low cost and high cultural risk. Furthermore, such a treatment is found to...

The concept of swarming has been invoked to describe both human military tactics and the behavior of simple biological systems. Most research on the underlying mechanisms of swarming is in the biological community, and it is often not clear how these can be implemented in military systems. This paper reviews several architectures that have shown promise for generating swarming behavior in milit...

This paper provides an overview of the results available on supervisory control in an adaptive context, with special emphasis on estimator-based supervisory architectures. We cover both the linear and nonlinear cases in a unified manner, highlighting the common properties and analysis techniques. The style of the paper is tutorial and provides the reader with enough detail to apply these techni...

results in complex and cost-intensive E/E architectures. For this reason the innovation alliance for automobile electronics E|ENOVA initiated the research project “SEIS – Safety in Embedded IP-based Systems”, with the aim of creating a consistent security solution for internet protocol based communication inside the vehicle and for the vehicle’s communication with the environment. The project p...