This paper presents an extended discussion of issues associated with the role of information privacy in IS research. This discussion was initiated in conjunction with a panel session at ICIS 2002. Following the conference, each of the panelists reworked and extended their position statements, and provided a commentary on the position statements of the other panelists. The paper is framed with h...

Networked Control Systems (NCSs) deal with feedback control systems with loops closed via data communication networks. Control over a network has many advantages compared with traditionally controlled systems, such as a lower implementation cost, reduced wiring, simpler installation and maintenance and higher reliability. Nevertheless, the networkinduced delay, packet dropout, asynchronous beha...

The scientific problem in our project is defined as a question: how social technologies could contribute to the development of smart and inclusive society? The subject of our research are networked projects (virtual CI systems) which include collective decision making tools and innovation mechanisms allowing and encouraging individual and team creativity, entrepreneurship, online collaboration,...

Stories naturally reveal themselves to us through space and over time. Today's digitally networked society provides a fertile environment for the exploration of narrative forms in new and diverse ways. The Digital Dialogues Symposium provided the setting for a series of experimental approaches to the recording and documenting of an event in time. Using custom designed software, participants col...

In this paper, improved conditions for the synthesis of static state-feedback controller are derived to stabilize networked control systems (NCSs) subject to actuator saturation. Both of the data packet latency and dropout which deteriorate the performance of the closed-loop system are considered in the NCS model via variable delays. Two different techniques are employed to incorporate actuator...

As networked computing objects become ubiquitous, consequently our reliance on their sustained functionality also increases. Unfortunately, the networked interactions also result in multi-faceted threats arising at individual system level that may compromise the security of the entire networked system. To properly assess such threats, to devise countermeasures and to enhance the design stage re...

Due to the advancement of computing and communication technology, networked control systems may soon become prevalent in many control applications. While the capability of employing the communication network in the control loop certainly provides many benefits, it also raises several challenges which need to be overcome to utilize the benefits. In this chapter, we focus on one major challenge: ...

In this paper we study the effect of external perturbations on a networked control system. We start by assuming that the nonnetworked system without perturbation is exponentially stable. Then, for fast enough networks we show that if the perturbation is bounded the networked system is ultimately bounded and if the perturbation is vanishing then the networked system is asymptotically stable. We ...