{"title":"New Understanding of RFID Adoption and Infusion in Retail Supply Chain","authors":"Xiaoran Wu, C. Subramaniam","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.839","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology adoption and infusion research has yielded many models in which different determinants have been investigated; however, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as an emerging technology has not been studied well from a supply chain perspective. Using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, we develop a theoretical model for RFID adoption and infusion. We include the development status of technology, which is an important factor in adoption decisions, but has been ignored in IS literature. By adding maturation of technology as one of determinants of adoption and infusion, the new model is more general and robust than previous adoption models of RFID in literature. We propose to empirically test the model with a large sample size covering the retail supply chain.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"36 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133077389","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 Recent Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court Concerning Data Retention","authors":"C. Luetge","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.963","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2008, the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) has passed an important, even though preliminary, decision concerning data retention. The GFCC's decision accepts the storage of data, but greatly restricts their use to serious offenses like murder and organized crime. From an ethical point of view, it is particularly interesting to look at the justification given by the GFCC, which relies heavily on the argument that the \"impartiality\" (Unbefangenheit) of communication will be thoroughly damaged if feelings of being watched spread in a society. This argument is examined in view of two contrasting theoretical approaches: Discourse ethics and evolutionary contractarian theory.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"4 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":"132436995","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":"Monitoring High-Quality Wine Production using Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"G. Anastasi, Orazio Farruggia, G. Re, M. Ortolani","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.828","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports the experience on the design and deployment of a WSN-based system for monitoring the productive cycle of high-quality wine in a Sicilian winery. Besides providing the means for pervasive monitoring of the cultivated area, the project described here is aimed to support the producer in ensuring the overall quality of their production, in terms of accurate planning of interventions in the field, and preservation of the stored product. Wireless Sensor Networks are employed as the sensing infrastructure of a distributed system for the control of a prototypal productive chain; nodes have been deployed both in the field and in the cellar, where wine aging is performed, and data is collected at a central unit in order to perform inferences that suggest timely interventions that preserve the grapes' quality.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"29 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":"126579066","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":"Determining the Contribution of IS Projects: An Approach to Measure Performance","authors":"C. Barclay, Kweku-Muata A. Osei-Bryson","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.668","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides a technique to measure the performance of information systems (IS) projects. Several researchers and practitioners have noted that the traditional system of measures (i.e. conformance to time, cost and specifications objectives) are incomplete and as such do not provide an effective means for assessing the performance of many IS projects. We argue that using the stakeholders' views on what is important to them in a project is a sound basis to derive measurements. In this paper we provide a structured framework for determining project performance measures that are based on stakeholders' objectives with regards to the project. This framework is supported by two well-established techniques: Value Focused Thinking (VFT) and Goal Question Metric (GQM).","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"10 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":"127659214","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":"Enabling Distributed Model Management Using Semantic Web Technologies","authors":"A. Deokar, O. El-Gayar","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.190","url":null,"abstract":"In today's increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, organizations strive to leverage their information resources to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Decision models as knowledge objects encapsulating problem situations, as well as means for leveraging information stored in corporate data warehouses, have positioned such models as an organizational resource that need to be managed, shared and re-used. Recent developments in distributed information technologies and the increasing reliance on such technologies by organization requires that model management accommodates today's distribute infrastructure landscape.In this paper, we leverage recent developments in semantic web technologies to enable model management functions in a distributed and heterogeneous environment. The proposed architecture leverages OWL to represent models at various levels of abstraction as well as pertinent problem domain, OWL-S to semantically annotate decision models represented as web services, and SWRL to facilitate model querying. Model selection and composition are used to illustrate the applicability of the architecture to model management functions in a distributed setting.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"3 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":"127857138","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":"From Software Documents to Experience Knowledge Based Artifacts","authors":"J. Kokkoniemi, L. Harjumaa","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.739","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition, preservation, exploitation, and management of knowledge assets of an organization have become prominent tasks in order to make the software development more efficient. Documentation written during a development lifecycle can include more information than just project schedules, distinct requirements of software products or descriptions of product quality. Decisions, design rationales and other problem solving experiences are also implicitly documented to some extent in the documentation. This paper represents an approach for identifying this tacit knowledge and documenting it as experience knowledge based artifacts. We focus on knowledge that essentially originates from individual developers, and their individual human experiences. Documentation related to software inspections have been used as an example in our studies, but the approach can be generalized to all software development documentation. The findings presented in this paper are based on observations in two research projects in case companies.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"49 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":"127244422","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}
R. Popp, Jürgen Falb, Edin Arnautovic, H. Kaindl, Sevan Kavaldjian, Dominik Ertl, H. Horacek, Cristian Bogdan
{"title":"Automatic Generation of the Behavior of a User Interface from a High-Level Discourse Model","authors":"R. Popp, Jürgen Falb, Edin Arnautovic, H. Kaindl, Sevan Kavaldjian, Dominik Ertl, H. Horacek, Cristian Bogdan","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.597","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to the structure and \"look\" of a user interface (UI), its behavior needs to be defined. For a fully automated UI generation, of course, it will have to be generated fully automatically as well. We avoid that finite-state machines or similar would have to be created manually by a UI designer. Instead, we start from a largely declarative high-level discourse model including a few procedural constructs. Based on our definitions of the procedural semantics of all parts of such a discourse model, we are able to automatically generate a finite-state machine that fully defines the behavior of the generated UI. In this way, we show how automatic generation of the behavior of a user interface is possible from a high-level discourse model.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"2002 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":"127397353","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":"Health Information Service Adoption: Case of Telemedicine","authors":"Umit Topacan, N. Basoglu, T. Daim","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.752","url":null,"abstract":"Health Information Services deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Medical staff, administrative staff and patients are typical users of such services. Behavior of these adopters is influenced by technology and user characteristics, social and organizational environment. This paper evaluates the determinants of Health Information Service adoption among users and analyzes the relationship of these determinants with the behavior of the users. Moreover, a taxonomy of factors that influence technology usage is provided. According to this taxonomy user and service characteristics, social and intermediary factors like usefulness and ease of use influence health service adoption.","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":"115405779","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}
Semin Sim, Sunju Park, Seongmoon Kim, Seung-Jae Han
{"title":"Use of Incomplete Timestamp Records for Hospital Simulation Analysis","authors":"Semin Sim, Sunju Park, Seongmoon Kim, Seung-Jae Han","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.1004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.1004","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional simulation studies often assume that there exists a complete set of data ready for analysis. Such an assumption may be justified in cases where data requirement for simulation is precisely defined and all necessary data have been collected according to such requirement. In many cases, however, existing data is incomplete, and it may not be economically feasible nor time-wise plausible to begin an extensive data collection process. Aiming at the healthcare management systems that maintain the log of operation activities using timestamps, we propose a general method to process incomplete timestamp data and obtain necessary information for simulation analysis. The proposed method is successfully applied to a case study of a mid-size hospital in Korea.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"48 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":"115583793","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}
Ryan LaFortune, C. Carothers, W. D. Smith, J. Czechowski, Xi Wang
{"title":"Simulating Large-Scale P2P Assisted Video Streaming","authors":"Ryan LaFortune, C. Carothers, W. D. Smith, J. Czechowski, Xi Wang","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.908","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Specifically, a content owner can distribute a file to over 131,072 users/peers with a peak swarm size of 16,384 concurrent users and a CDN bandwidth savings of 73%, while achieving an average user buffer time of under 2 seconds, which is an A+ on the StreamQ user performance rating system. Current research and even deployed systems rarely have swarms in excess of 1,000 concurrent peers for a single piece of content. Consequently, this is the first study that reports on peer-to-peer streaming for swarms of this scale. Further, the simulation model demonstrates that a high quality of service can be provided, while significantly reducing the distributor's transit costs for these large swarms.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"171 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":"124170140","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}