{"title":"How Spreadsheets Get Us to Mars and Beyond","authors":"J. Hihn, S. Lewicki, B. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.754","url":null,"abstract":"Spreadsheets, spreadsheets everywhere and nary a page of documentation. JPL is NASA's prime center for deep space missions. In all of our missions, spreadsheets have played a major role in managing parts lists, managing requirements, monitoring progress, planning budgets, developing the initial concept designs, and providing the backbone of our infrastructure. In this paper we will share our lessons learned in building various spreadsheet intensive systems and applications. Based on our experience in developing and using these various systems we will propose a number of exploratory ideas as to the dimensions of spreadsheet system complexity. In addition, we will share our approaches to documentation, review, and verification of these types of systems.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127222076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XML Stream Data Reduction by Shared KST Signatures","authors":"S. Böttcher, Rita Hartel, C. Messinger","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.1029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.1029","url":null,"abstract":"Within XML data streams, markup as defined e.g. in a DTD is not only being used for structuring large amounts of data, but also for efficiently searching, accessing, and processing the required parts of the data streams. However when huge amounts of XML data are involved, data reduction or compression techniques that still allow finding the required parts of the data fast may become crucial to handle data processing. We present a data reduction and compression technique for XML data streams that not only significantly reduces the amount of data, but also allows for efficient data processing without requiring a full data decompression. Our data reduction technique combines sub-tree sharing with removing structure that is known by a DTD. We have done extensive performance evaluations to compare our compression technique with other approaches to XML compression, and we show that we not only outperform the other techniques, but also outperform string compression techniques like gzip that do not support query processing on compressed data.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127487126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Demographic Challenge: Aging and Depopulation and their Consequences for E-Government - A Case Study","authors":"Björn Niehaves, Kevin Ortbach, J. Becker","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.424","url":null,"abstract":"E-Government is gaining in importance due to rising demands of citizens towards their local administration. At the same time demographic tendencies of depopulation and aging accelerate the need for an inclusive E-Government strategy, reorientation of existing services, and an increased focus on cost reduction. Cooperation between municipalities can be a promising approach to reduce costs and thus deal with major challenges of demographic transition in both front office and back office. Our exploratory single case study analysis introduces auspicious solutions related to these aspects and discusses in how far they might be applied to other settings.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125856925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying IT Value Latency: The Case of the Financial Services Industry","authors":"K. Goh, R. Kauffman","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.875","url":null,"abstract":"Both the academia and practice recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate benefits. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of methodological developments to effectively measure IT value in the presence of value latency. We consider the sources of value latency and develop a time-series measurement methodology based on intervention analysis to measure the temporal value flows from IT investments. We apply the quantitative measurement methodology to six publicly-listed financial institutions that invest in customer relationship management (CRM) technologies to illustrate how it works. Within the bounds of our sample, we show that IT value latency exists and that firms demonstrate different patterns for the accrual of lagged value from IT investments. Our results offer new managerial thinking for IT benefits management.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126039770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaesung Park, K. Jung, Yunhee Lee, Geon Cho, Jae Jon Kim, Joon Koh
{"title":"The Continuous Service Usage Intention in the Web Analytics Services","authors":"Jaesung Park, K. Jung, Yunhee Lee, Geon Cho, Jae Jon Kim, Joon Koh","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.939","url":null,"abstract":"The World Wide Web (WWW) has continued to grow at very rapid speed in both the sheer volume of traffic and size, complexity of web sites. Web analytics industry also has been growing rapidly. Web analytics is to analyze web log files to discover accessing patterns of web pages. In our work described in this paper, we identify factors which can affect the continuous usage intention of a firm using services in Web Analytics service and empirically validate the relationships between the identified factors. For this purpose, we analyze 174 Korea firms. The analysis results show that the satisfaction is significantly associated with service quality and switching cost and the service usage period is not significantly associated with continuous service usage intention. We measure service quality using SERVQUAL. It turn out that two dimensions of SERVQUAL, reliability and empathy are significantly associated with satisfaction, but another dimension of SERVQUAL, responsibility, is not. Finally, satisfaction is significantly associated with continuous service usage intention.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123420886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Knowledge Creation and Problem Solving: A Systems Design Perspective","authors":"Elahe Javadi, J. Gebauer","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.624","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper builds on the assumptions that creativity occurs in a social context that fosters collaborative behavior and that group creativity support mechanisms are essential for building a collaborative group environment. Applying a situationalist view of creativity we believe that group collaboration is an evolutionary process that encompasses ideation, integration, evaluation and selection. Individuals cooperate to share and integrate their ideas on a particular task, and compete to maximize their objectives. We hypothesize that, as with genetic algorithms, there should be a balance between competition and cooperation among members so that the fittest ideas survive and the inferior ones fade. We use a series of simulation studies and laboratory experiments to examine these factors and their joint effect on the quality of group collaboration processes. The paper is based on theories of group decision support systems and genetic algorithms, and incorporates previous studies on creative tasks.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"12 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123690765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agile Principles and Ethical Conduct","authors":"Ken H. Judy","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.566","url":null,"abstract":"Software practitioners experience pressure to compromise their work and their reasonable care for others. Even as software becomes more beneficial, pervasive, and interconnected, the potential for unintended harm grows. Agile Software Development is an approach to building software systems that embodies a set of declared core principles. How do these principles align to an ethical standard of conduct? This paper attempts from an Agile Practitioner's perspective to compare and contrast Agile Principles with other approaches to Software Ethics. It identifies areas of strong resonance and gaps that exist between the stated Agile Principles and an explicit software code of ethical conduct.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125363890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Communication in a Virtual Team","authors":"K. Skovolt","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.288","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how leadership is accomplished in a virtual team. The data consists of 400 emails from a distributed work group (Agenda) in a Norwegian tele-company. The study has primarily a discursive approach to leadership and aims at identifying what kinds of discursive devices the leader of Agenda uses to create trust and in-group solidarity, and how she, by the linguistic form of her requests, positions her self towards her subordinates. The results show that the leader displays an egalitarian leader role, building personal and emotional ties and downplays her authority. By giving the group a positive loaded nick-name and creating a success story for the group, the leader invites to group identification. Requests are produced as needs and hopes, and presented as a personal matter rather than an institutional obligation. While her institutional role as leader is downplayed when performing requests to her subordinates, it is explicitly fore grounded when performing requests to external partners.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125424918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An N-Gram Based Approach to Automatically Identifying Web Page Genre","authors":"Jane E. Mason, M. Shepherd, Jack Duffy","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.581","url":null,"abstract":"The research reported in this paper is the first phase of a larger project on the automatic classification of web pages by their genres, using n-gram representations of the web pages. In this study, the textual content of web pages is used to create feature sets consisting of the most frequent n-grams and their associated frequencies. We present three methods, each of which uses a distance measure to determine the dissimilarity between two feature sets. Each method forms a feature set for every web page in the test set, however the formation of feature sets from the training set differs between methods: we experiment using one feature set per web page, per genre, and a combination of genre-based feature sets supplemented by subgenre feature sets. We present results for a balanced corpus of seven genres (blog, eshop, FAQs, front page, listing, home page, and search page). Initial results are encouraging.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126718772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Navarrete, Sehl Mellouli, T. Pardo, José Ramón Gil-García
{"title":"Information Sharing at National Borders: Extending the Utility of Border Theory","authors":"C. Navarrete, Sehl Mellouli, T. Pardo, José Ramón Gil-García","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.772","url":null,"abstract":"Research has identified the potential and challenges of information sharing in government settings mostly within the context of a single country. The challenges facing inter-governmental information exchanges that take place across national border governments, however, are thought to be different. To date, research has failed to provide theoretical guidance in understanding the complexities that the cross border environment brings to information sharing initiatives. This paper brings together Brunet-Jailly's theory of borders [10] and definitions of cross-boundary information sharing from Gil-Garcia et al. [39] to develop a framework that incorporates the information sharing and technology dimension with the economic, political and cultural contextual factors impacting border regions. This study is an initial step toward understanding the challenges that the border environment brings to information sharing initiatives. Future research is necessary to empirically test the utility of the proposed theory as a tool for understanding this new area of both practical and theoretical importance.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114925821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}