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Computer
Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, publishes peer-reviewed technical content that covers all aspects of computer science, computer engineering, technology, and applications. The articles selected for publication are edited to enhance readability for the general Computer reader. Computer is a resource that practitioners, researchers, and managers can rely on to provide timely information about current research developments, trends, best practices, and changes in the profession. - PrePrint: Cloud Computing in Developing Economies: Current State, Opportunities and Challenges
Global and local IT players, national governments and international agencies are paying significant attention to the cloud computing sector of developing economies. Regarding the potential and impact of cloud computing in the developing world, however, findings and conclusions drawn from surveys, studies and experiences of companies are confusing and remarkably inconsistent. In theory, it is possible for a developing world-based firm to have access to the same infrastructure and applications that the developed world has. However, there is little, if any, empirical evidence which shows how effectively these theories, ideas and speculations can translate into practice. In this paper, we examine the current state of and the opportunities afforded by cloud computing in developing economies. We also analyze barriers to taking full advantage of the opportunities offered by the cloud in these economies.
  
 Cloud computing - Infrastructure - Business - E-Commerce - Business-to-Business - PrePrint: A Cross Analysis of Master Curricula in ICT and Professional Profiles
Abstract—Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent an emergent field in the new knowledge era with almost unlimited possibilities. However, the development of ICT industry in the near future will be mainly sustained by the teaching of ICT curricula in universities and higher education institutions. Theoretically, ICT curricula should be designed attending to the competences and professional profiles demanded by society and ICT companies, but the reality is that ICT curricula are not usually designed taking into account these premises. The purpose of this paper consists of illustrating the current state of ICT master curricula in the European Union (EU) through a cross analysis with professional profiles provided by the Career Space initiative. The obtained results will highlight the main strengths and weaknesses that the current ICT masters offer in the EU.
European Union - Education - Information and Communication Technologies - ICT - Government - PrePrint: Cloud Computing for Mobile Users
Cloud computing heralds a new era of computing where application services are provided through the Internet. Cloud computing can enhance the computing capability of mobile systems. Is cloud computing the ultimate solution for extending battery lifetimes of mobile systems?
Cloud computing - Business - Computing - E-Commerce - Business-to-Business - PrePrint: Use of the IEEE Codes of Conduct to Resolve Legal Disputes
We describe an important trend: increasing use by the US judicial system of CoCs to resolve disputes. Specifically, CoCs are being used to judge, literally, the performance of non-code subscribers and unaffiliated organizations. We illustrate successful use of an IEEE CoC at arbitration, resulting in a multi-million dollar judgment against an organization having no IEEE members. Our fictionalized 'case' is a compilation of real cases – an ERP system implementation failure. Plaintiffs faced a common dilemma: an inability to determine applicable ‘standards of care.’ These disputes were won as a direct result of using the IEEE CoC to compare and contrast human and organizational behaviors. Although the implications of this factual trend are unclear, use of such a technique has reached a 'tipping point.' We hope to spark discussion leading to more beneficial outcomes for the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE, our professional community, and for the information technology (IT), business and consulting communities.
Information technology - Enterprise resource planning - Organization - IEEE Computer Society - Technology - PrePrint: Model-based Runtime Verification of Web Service Interface Contracts
Web applications are required to follow an interface contract that specifies their expected behaviour when they communicate with a web service. Using the Amazon E-Commerce Service as an example, we show how we can automatically test an implementation for conformance as well as monitor at runtime that each partner fulfills its part of the contract.
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Web service - Amazon.com - Programming - Service-Oriented Architecture - Business - Computer - September 2010 (Vol. 43, No. 9)
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Sponsored Topics: Conferences - Computer Science - Journal - Math - Publications - PrePrint: Scenario-Based Resource Prediction for QoS-Aware Media Processing
This paper advocates for annotating media streams with scenario information to reflect frame-level decode complexity. Scenarios are platform-independent and enable energy-efficient media stream decoding, resource prediction and quality-of-service (QoS) management on multi-core processors.
Quality of service - Multi-core processor - Cross-platform - Technology - Business - PrePrint: On Formal Designing of Ambient Intelligence Applications
This paper reports our practical experience of designing Ambient Intelligence (AmI) applications and a methodology, based on formal methods, that we have defined to support designers during their work.
Ambient Intelligence - Methodology - Formal methods - Psychology - Business - PrePrint: An Empirical Study of Commercial Antivirus Software Effectiveness
Despite the widespread use of antivirus software (AV) malware is pervasive in today’s computing environment. This paper presents an empirical study on the effectiveness of six commercial AVs against Windows malware collected from April to July 2009. A subset of the studied AVs performs new-to-the-market behavior-based detection in addition to traditional signature-based detection. The study shows that the AVs can identify at most 62.15% of the malware on the first day of collection. 8.61% of the malware are not detected by any of the studied AVs for more than a month after being collected. During the malware’s execution, the AVs with behavior-based detection provide protection against modifications to certain system and network registry keys, but leave some keys (e.g. a Microsoft-Word key controlling macro execution) unprotected, leading to security breaches. Behavior-based detection also prevents code injection and malicious behaviors (e.g. download non-executable files with executable content), but not all of them.
Anti-Virus - Security - Malware - Windows - Malicious Software - PrePrint: Using Modeling and Simulation to Evaluate Enterprises’ Risk Exposure to Social Networks
The adoption of Social Networks by employees poses a new series of threats for organizations, including data leakage. Organizations need to better understand the implications and how to react. We aim at making progress in this area by analyzing some of the key risks that enterprises could face. We explore the suitability of using an analytic approach, which involves modeling and simulation, to investigate how to answer to a few strategic questions: what are the actual risks for an organization, given a specific context? How to mitigate them? What are the financial and organizational implications in doing this?
Simulation - Social network - Organization - Business - Technology
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