Yiannis Verginadis, Dimitris Apostolou, S. Taherizadeh, Ioannis Ledakis, G. Mentzas, Andreas Tsagkaropoulos, Nikos Papageorgiou, Fotis Paraskevopoulos
{"title":"PrEstoCloud","authors":"Yiannis Verginadis, Dimitris Apostolou, S. Taherizadeh, Ioannis Ledakis, G. Mentzas, Andreas Tsagkaropoulos, Nikos Papageorgiou, Fotis Paraskevopoulos","doi":"10.4018/irmj.2021010104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2021010104","url":null,"abstract":"Fog computing extends multi-cloud computing by enabling services or application functions to be hosted close to their data sources. To take advantage of the capabilities of fog computing, serverless and the function-as-a-service (FaaS) software engineering paradigms allow for the flexible deployment of applications on multi-cloud, fog, and edge resources. This article reviews prominent fog computing frameworks and discusses some of the challenges and requirements of FaaS-enabled applications. Moreover, it proposes a novel framework able to dynamically manage multi-cloud, fog, and edge resources and to deploy data-intensive applications developed using the FaaS paradigm. The proposed framework leverages the FaaS paradigm in a way that improves the average service response time of data-intensive applications by a factor of three regardless of the underlying multi-cloud, fog, and edge resource infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478230","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":"Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Disclosure on the Web","authors":"V. Raghupathi, W. Raghupathi","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.2019010101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.2019010101","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability reporting is now a best practice for most companies around the world. The Web, with its advanced technologies enables companies to create a positive impact on stakeholder perceptions of transparency in reporting. Using empirical data from websites of companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the authors analyze design and content of sustainability information. We conclude that while nearly all companies provide routine content disclosure using minimal web design features, they stop short of issuing a proactive display of compliance and due diligence content. Companies with higher Newsweek Green Ranking scores employ better disclosure than others. This asymmetry in self-governance arises from a combination of factors, including low level of transparency, incomplete information, and a lack of comparability of sustainability reports. The authors develop a prescriptive framework to help companies improve their web sites by including more content that reflects due diligence and transparency for sustainability.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/IRMJ.2019010101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42652687","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":"What Drives Malaysian E-Government Adoption?","authors":"ChongAlain Yee-Loong","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3616-3.ch006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3616-3.ch006","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author investigates the factors that affect the adoption of e-government in Malaysia. Variables like perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, compatibility, trust and demogra...","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70427798","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":"A Critical Systems View of Power-Ethics Interactions in Information Systems Evaluation","authors":"Jose Cordoba","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.2007040105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.2007040105","url":null,"abstract":"Current developments in information systems IS evaluation emphasise stakeholder participation in order to ensure adequate and beneficial IS investments. It is now common to consider evaluation as a subjective process of interpretations, in which people's appreciations are taken into account to guide evaluations. However, the context of power relations in which evaluation takes place, as well as their ethical implications, has not been given full attention. In this article, ideas of critical systems thinking and Michel Foucault's work on power and ethics are used to define a critical systems view of power to support IS evaluation. The article proposes a system of inquiry into power with two main areas: 1 Deployment of evaluation via power relations and 2 Dealing with ethics. The first element addresses how evaluation becomes possible. The second one goes in-depth into how evaluation can proceed as being informed by ethical reflection. The article suggests that inquiry into these relationships should contribute to extend current views on power in IS evaluation practice, and to reflect on the ethics of those involved in the process.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"74-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478224","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":"Simulation of Ice Accretion on Airfoils during Flight","authors":"J. E. Dillingh, H. Hoeijmakers","doi":"10.4271/2003-01-2137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2137","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a computational method is presented that computes ice accretion on airfoils in specified icing conditions. A good agreement is found with the ice shapes predicted by other computational methods. Agreement with the experimental ice shapes is fair. Also, the implementation and application of a mathematical model of a thermal anti-icing system in the ice accretion simulation code 2DFOIL-ICE is presented. The numerical code has proved to be able to calculate the main parameters of an airfoil anti-icing system, such as: solid surface temperatures (for the wetted region), runback water flow and convection heat transfer coefficient distributions along the external surface.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2003-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4271/2003-01-2137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70629327","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":"Knowledge Management Systems: An Architecture for Active and Passive Knowledge","authors":"S. Galup, R. Dattero, R. Heeks","doi":"10.4018/irmj.2002010103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2002010103","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge Management Systems KMS offer an environment for organizations to manage their information assets e.g., documents, databases, etc.. Existing KMS passively employ knowledge by querying a database, showing a document, displaying a Web page, etc. KMS can be extended to incorporate active components, such as expert systems and business rule systems. Currently, business rules reside in application code and database triggers. A KMS with an embedded expert system using business rules from the organization, combined with the connectivity of a server in a client/server architecture, provides an excellent environment for automating business activities at both local and enterprise levels. The segregation of business rules into the Knowledge Tier KT should lower the cost of development and maintenance, increase accuracy, and ensure corporation-wide consistency. In addition, knowledge verification tools are now being developed that will allow the computerization of less structured tasks, enabling another round of increased efficiency through computerization.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"22-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/irmj.2002010103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478620","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 information systems design framework for facilitating TQM implementation","authors":"N. Ahmed, R. Ravichandran","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.1999100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.1999100101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a framework for information systems IS design for TQM implementation. The framework consists of three main phases. In the first, TQM implementation tasks are established. These tasks include identifying customer satisfaction variables CSV, translation of CSV to firm response variables FRV, benchmarking, and continuous improvement. The second phase includes analyses of communication effectiveness requirements between the organizational entities such as sales/marketing, top management, operations, accounting/finance and also with the customers. In the third phase, appropriate IS component inventories for different communication interfaces are generated. This was accomplished by first mapping the TQM implementation tasks for the communication interfaces. Then appropriate IS/IT solution was recommended for each interface. The final IS design is achieved by integrating IS components at technological, functional, and strategic levels. Finally, a hypothetical example for a large manufacturing firm is provided.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"5-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478610","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":"A model of the motivation for IT retraining","authors":"Sherry D. Ryan","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.1999100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.1999100103","url":null,"abstract":"The skill-sets of many information technology IT professionals are becoming obsolete as IT changes accelerate. Organizations are retraining many software developers with legacy systems skills to skills required in the new Internet-based, client-server and object-oriented paradigms. This type of retraining is not incremental, but entails major cognitive, methodological and procedural shifts. Given its importance, cost, and currency, processes that impact the effectiveness of training should be considered. Trainee motivation is one such process that should be investigated because it is more malleable than other aspects, such as trainees' cognitive ability. This paper proposes a model of motivational intentions and antecedents in this information technology retraining context. Theoretical background for the model is described. In addition, the implications of the model and its potential utilization in influencing motivational intentions, and ultimately improving retraining outcomes is discussed.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478302","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 Expert's Opinion","authors":"H. Emurian","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.1999100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.1999100104","url":null,"abstract":"INTERVIEWEE PROFILE: John Suess, Director, University Computing Services, University of Maryland Baltimore County An Honors University in Maryland. UMBC is a Carnegie Level II public research university serving approximately 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students pursuing baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"33-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70478487","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}