There is a significant gap between the stated objectives of organizational security found in corporate security policy and the audit configuration of event logs present on IT systems. Audit configuration has always been a bottom-up process. As a result, the design and implementation of audit configurations is often constrained by the audit management interface that often models operating system...

Practical use of SURF feature points in large-scale indexing and retrieval engines requires an efficient means for storing and decoding these features. This paper investigates several methods for compression and storage of SURF feature points, considering both storage consumption and disk-read efficiency. We compare each scheme with a baseline plaintext encoding scheme as used by many existing ...

Top-down total quality management (TQM) programs often fail to create deep and sustained change in organizations. They become a fad soon replaced by another fad. Failure to institutionalize TQM can be attributed to a gap between top management’s rhetoric about their intentions for TQM and the reality of implementation in various subunits of the organization. The gap varies from subunit to subun...

This paper describes an automatic system of music analysis based on the generative theory of tonal music (GTTM). The system works by acquiring the metrical structure of the music. The GTTM is considered one of the most promising theories of music in regard to computer implementation; however, no order is given for applying its rules and as a result, they frequently conflict with each other. To ...

It is given that top-down modelling approaches used for deriving asset management strategies over long time horizons must take into account the effects of deterioration and interventions. Top-down models have the advantage that all combinations of decision can be considered, such that the right strategy can be selected to achieve objectives. Top-down methodologies overcome problems of data scar...

Purpose – To examine how a manager’s strategic philosophy is influenced by his or her management level in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – Scales are developed to measure managers’ philosophical perspectives along three key dimensions and tested with 289 managers in the United States. Refined scales are administered to 237 managers. Findings – A manager’s level in the organizatio...

This paper proposes a method to improve shift-reduce constituency parsing by using lexical dependencies. The lexical dependency information is obtained from a large amount of auto-parsed data that is generated by a baseline shift-reduce parser on unlabeled data. We then incorporate a set of novel features defined on this information into the shift-reduce parsing model. The features can help to ...

7 This paper critiques the notion of responsible management of information systems by pointing out the intrinsic contradiction inherent in the idea of managing morality and ethics in information systems. The paper, being part of the tradition of critical research in IS, uses the example of managing digital divides to argue that a traditional view of management (here called heroic management) le...

Knowledge management (KM), through learning from past projects, has been considered as an effective means for continuous improvement. However, many KM initiatives have failed to meet this expectation, due to the top-down, controlled approach and an ineffective transferring mechanism. To address this challenging issue, this paper proposes a project-based KM system that helps to acquire and trans...