Undoubtedly, in today’s new business information has donated the most competitive advantage for the organizations. Although just collecting, processing and retrieving of data were significant in the past, the subject of information security is turned into a serious challenge in micro and macro levels of organizational management. Indeed, observance of the information security principals is coun...

AbsfrucfThis paper makes three contributions. First, we propose Shannon’s perfect secrecy theory as a foundation for developing countermeasures to traffic analysis attacks on information security systems. A system violating the perfect secrecy conditions can leak mission critical information. Second, we suggest statistical pattern recognition as a fundamental technology to test an information s...

Personal Information Management (PIM) is an important discipline that evolves with the technology advancements in their operating systems. The understanding of its four main activities in PIM: organizing, retrieving, deleting and archiving are crucial because the information growth in our desktop increased overtime. The paper presents the study conducted to enhance understanding of one of the c...

This article examines the role of management in business processes in relation to the process-oriented organization and strategy formation as a formal process (strategic planning). A questionnaire designed to measure these variables after the validity and reliability among a sample of 183 managers, officials and experts in working systems, information technology and strategic planning in major ...

Virtual teams (VTs) are groups in organizations separated by organizational, spatial and/or temporal distance. Innovative information technology infrastructure coupled with the growing internationalization of commercial activity has augmented the need for VTs. But not all VTs are equally virtual. A VT’s environment, characterized by the pressures the team experiences to collaborate, the inheren...

Over the last decades the Smart Home development is a continuously evolving field that faces exceptional challenges. However, the recent advances in information and communications technologies have led the Smart Home development in a good level of maturity. A Smart Home is a living environment that incorporates the appropriate technology, called Smart Home technology, to meet the resident goals...

Background: The rapid development of the blockchain technology and its various applications has rendered it important to understand the guidelines for adopting it. Methods: The comparative analysis method is used to analyze different dimensions of the maturity model, which is mainly based on the commonly used capability maturity model. Results: The blockchain maturity model and its adoption pro...

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introduction: intellectual capitals in an organization are assets that their value is increased over time and with sharing with others. since hospitals are dominant in providing medical services, management of intangible assets could be very important for them. to avoid the waste of costs and efforts, it is necessary to identify the priority and importance of each dimension of intellectual capi...