Information security and assurance are new frontiers for collaborative design. In this context, information assurance (IA) refers to methodologies to protect engineering information by ensuring its availability, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, authentication, access control, etc. In collaborative design, IA techniques are needed to protect intellectual property, establish security ...

As my title for this editorial suggests, this edition provides new research findings in two spheres of profound interest to this journal and its readers: those of the gathering significance of social media to democratic engagements on the one hand, and of how to view and evaluate e-government in the contemporary state, on the other. In some respects these topics are coming more and more into th...

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The need to know and explain the human communication phenomena lead to the development of many theories and communication models that gradually evolved through time, in accordance with the cultural and sociopolitical contexts. In this article we will address the transformation from models that approached communication through a “one-to-all” logic, allowed by the spread of printed mass media or ...

As organizations adopt increasingly sophisticated information systems, the challenge of protecting those systems becomes enormous. Accordingly, the single critical decision security managers have to make is the amount an organization is willing to spend on security measures to protect assets of the organization. To arrive at this decision, security mangers need to know explicitly about the asse...

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In this article, we address the rarely discussed problem of connecting high-level information (e.g., aggregated states and enemy intentions) to information acquisition. Our approach is to partition the transition of information need to sensor management into a set of comprehensible entities (information types and functions), which we present in a framework. The framework is stepwise (sequential...