We propose that institutions such as the U.S. Supreme Court can lead individuals to update their perceptions of social norms, in contrast to the mixed evidence on whether institutions shape individuals' personal opinions. We studied reactions to the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. In a controlled experimental setting, we found that a favorable ruling, when pre...

The article proposes the structure of information and software environment controlling managerial decisions indicators that affect them. In particular, it describes: 1) a point model allows you to analyze management in conditions matrix functional for several branches (if any), areas project groups simultaneously, 2) system fixing create database decisions, as well maps reflect their content co...

1987 is not the year of anything in particular and yet it is a year in which much change will occur in our industry. It is also a year-like most years recently-in which managers of information systems will need to make important decisions that will have a long range effect on the success or failure of their organizations. Decision in times of change and imminent change is tough and scary, and y...

A central problem of network management is compressing vast amounts of real-time operational data to accomplish management decisions. A health function provides such eecient compression by combining managed data linearly into a single index of network state. This paper describes a computational theory of network behaviors, their observations, and threshold-decisions via health functions. The mo...