Emerging trends and challenges in information technology management : 2006 Information Resources Management Association international conference, Washington, DC, USA, May 21-24, 2006. Vol. 1

"The field of information technology continues to impact more organizations worldwide as new technologies and applications are implemented to strengthen everyday business processes. Individuals within these organizations continue to face the challenge of developing and implementing the latest innovative programs that successfully apply information technology applications within various types and sizes of companies and businesses. Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management presents the latest issues surrounding the management of information technology in organizations, and explains how these issues are addressed and used for the benefit of practitioners and educators around the world. These proceedings from the 17th Annual Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference provide knowledge related to the latest trends and challenges dealing with all aspects of information technology applications and management. Topics presented within the proceedings include: distance learning technologies, data warehousing and mining, information quality management, geographic information systems, knowledge management, information technology education, and many more. Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management includes the latest research in the area of IT utilization and management, and supports those involved in the research and teaching of information technology aspects worldwide." -- Publisher 2006 IRMA Proceedings......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 3 Methodologies for Developing Multimedia Systems: A Survey......Page 11 Networkcentric Healthcare: Strategies, Structures and Technologies for Managing Knowledge......Page 15 Measuring Credibility Assessment Targets in Web-Based Information......Page 21 Making Choices: Research Paradigms and Information Management: Practical Applications of Philosophy in Information Management Research......Page 25 Outsourcing, Insourcing IT-Related Business: The Impact on the Organization......Page 29 Target, Shield and Weapon: A Taxonomy of IT Security Initiatives......Page 33 Crossing Privacy, Information, and Ethics......Page 36 Unattended Delivery for Online Shopping: An Exploratory Study from Consumers Perspectives......Page 40 Achieving Implementation Success in Ubiquitous Computing Environments: Understanding the Role of Psychological Ownership......Page 44 Business to Business E-Commerce and Inter-Firm Governance......Page 48 Organizational Slack in the Global Information Technology Industry......Page 52 Wanted: A Framework for IT-Supported KM......Page 56 The Impact of CEO/CIO Convergence on IT Strategic Alignment......Page 60 Research on Constructing Ontology for the Semantic Web......Page 65 A Comparison of Quality Issues for Data, Information, and Knowledge......Page 70 Amount and Utility of Information Values: Two Cases of the Most Misunderstood Quality Attributes......Page 73 Acceptance of the Mobile Internet as Distribution Channel for Paid Content......Page 78 E-Learning Acceptance Model (ELAM)......Page 83 The Convergence Strategy in Small and Medium Sized Companies Exemplified by E-Business and T-Business Organisations......Page 88 Gender Discrimination in IT Salary: A Preliminary Investigation......Page 92 Building a Process Driven Knowledgebase for Managing Student Support......Page 96 A Study on the Information Quality Satisfaction of Communication Portals in the Hong Kong Government......Page 100 Using Reflective Learning in an Introductory Programming Course......Page 104 Coping with Business Relationships: Use of Mobile Solutions to Improve Inter-Organizational Business Processes......Page 107 Performance Study of IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN under High Traffic Conditions......Page 111 Student Preferences for Reflective Learning Journals in a Studio Environment: A Survey......Page 115 Project Portfolio Management......Page 119 Key Aspects in Community-Based Coastal Emergency Response GIS......Page 123 Trends in the Delivery and Utilitzation of Enterprise ICT......Page 128 The Impact of Project Management Practices and Project Sponsorship on Project Performance......Page 132 Impact of Technology on the Legal System: A Study of a Law Firm’s Disaster Recovery Planning......Page 137 Decision Making Process in Information Systems Outsourcing......Page 139 Applications Utilising the PHOAF Prototype for Integrated ENUM and FOAF Queries......Page 143 An Architectural Framework for Web Services Based on SOA Realization in a Bank......Page 147 Consideration of Privacy Protection for Ubiquitous Applications through an Interdisciplinary Approach......Page 153 The Next Wave in IT Infrastructure Risk Management: A Causal Modeling Approach with Bayesian Belief Networks......Page 158 Multi-Functional Stakeholder Information System for Strategic Knowledge Management: Theoretical Concept and Case Studies......Page 162 A Virtual University Providing an Online Master Program in a Public- Private Partnership: Challenges and Solutions......Page 166 A User Requirement Study on the Needs of Visual Artists with Upper Limb Disabilities......Page 170 Hybrid Rough/Fuzzy Modeling of Advertising Effects on Consumer Preferences......Page 174 Cultural and Political Issues in Implementing Software Process Improvement......Page 178 Supporting Interactions Between Organizations with Language-Action Models......Page 182 Revealing Prospect Theory Bias in Information Security Decision Making......Page 186 Improving TCP/IP Performance Over Geosynchronous Satellite Links: A Comparative Analysis......Page 190 A Framework for Design Science Research Activities......Page 194 Monitoring-Based Coordinated Defense through the Lens of the Coordination Theory......Page 198 Using Petri Nets to Represent Cross-Departmental Business Processes......Page 202 Meta-Matrix Modeling for Knowledge Management: An Introduction......Page 206 A Framework for Context-Aware Question Answering System of the Math Forum Digital Library......Page 210 Experiments in Information Extraction......Page 214 A Scheme of Technology Acceptance for Mobile Computing......Page 218 A Design Science Approach to Investigating the Piloting of Customer Relationship Management......Page 222 A Knowledge Contribution Model to a Knowledge Management System......Page 226 The Effect of Propensity to Trust on Customers’ Initial Trust in Web-Based Online Stores......Page 230 Design Interactive Applications Using Object-Oriented Petri Nets in Software Components......Page 234 Mobile Gaming: A Reference Model and Critical Success Factors......Page 238 Being and Appearing: Human Interfaces in the Digital Age......Page 242 Examining the Value of Management Control in IT Organizations......Page 245 A Market-Based Information Resource Management Approach in Information Grid......Page 249 IT Strategies in Digital Economy: Selected Problems, Polish Experiences......Page 251 A Taxonomy of Learning Technologies: Simplifying Online Learning for Learners, Professors, and Designers......Page 257 A TPM Toolset for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses......Page 261 Towards a General Framework for the Study of ICT Skill Supply and Demand......Page 265 MDA-Based Design Pattern Components......Page 269 Specifying Refactorings as Metamodel-Based Transformations......Page 274 Security Status and Security Model for Mid-Size Accounting Firms in New Zealand......Page 278 Design Tools for Facilitating Qualitative Research Design in the Information Systems Environment......Page 283 Adaptive Web Browsing Using Web Mining Technologies for Internet-Enabled Mobile Handheld Devices......Page 287 Classification and Rule Generation for Colon Tumor Gene Expression Data......Page 291 A Framework for Situating Business Process Engineering Approaches: An Illustration with ARIS and EKD-CMM......Page 295 A Framework for Teaching Information Security Laboratory Projects with Open Source Software......Page 300 Computer-Based Edutainment for Children Aged 3 to 5 Years Old......Page 303 Designing and Explaining the Trust Model of Students Applying to Virtual Universities......Page 307 Creating and Maintaining Privacy and Trust in an Online Trading Environment: A Case Study......Page 314 A Rationale for Conceiving Adaptation in Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Systems......Page 319 Communities of Practice and Performance: Perceptions of IT Personnel in Small Organizations in the USA......Page 323 Teaching Information and Communication Technology in the Arab World: An Examination of Curriculum......Page 326 Course-Embedded Assessment of IT Competency: A Case Study......Page 332 Just-In-Context Clinical Knowledge Dissemination with Clinical Information Assistant......Page 339 A Proposed Framework for Assessing the Factors Influencing the Adoption of Free and Open Source Application Software in Organizations......Page 343 An Online Counseling Platform for a Mexican University......Page 347 Health Community Portals: A Wish List......Page 351 Visualization in Multimodal User Interfaces of Mobile Applications......Page 355 Postgraduate Student Attendance: Face-to-Face vs. Online......Page 359 Leveraging the Balanced Scorecard to Measure and Manage Information Technology Governance......Page 363 Knowledge Leadership vs. Knowledge Management: The Malaysian Bankers’ View......Page 367 The Design and Validation of a Knowledge-Based System for the Auditor’s Report......Page 372 Selecting RFID Technology in the Manufacturing Industry Sector: A Decision Criteria Proposal......Page 377 Knowledge Extraction to Improve Information Retrieval in Scientific Documents......Page 381 Facilitators and Inhibitors of E-Commerce Adoption in an Irish SME: An Action Research Case Study......Page 384 Cooperative and Dialog-Based Multi-Agents in Global Software Delivery Management......Page 387 Problematic Assimilation of ICTs in Radiology Practices: An Exploratory Investigation of the Four Dimensions of the Social Actor Framework......Page 391 Access Control for Auditors in Corporate Collaboration......Page 396 Intrinsic and Internal vs. External View of DQ/IQ (A Case of Relativity)......Page 398 Hermeneutic Phenomenology: A Useful Tool for IS Educators?......Page 402 Attitudes of Students Toward Electronic Cash......Page 404 E-Recruiting System Development......Page 407 Buying Stuff on the Web: Can Users Correctly Identify Deception in Purchasing Contracts?......Page 409 Money Laundering Using Electronic Payment Systems......Page 412 Common Ground? Explaining the Willingness to Share Knowledge in Organizational Teams......Page 416 Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities......Page 419 HERMES: A XML-Based Environment for Flexible Requirements Management......Page 422 Avatars, Student Friend, Lecturer Foe? The Use of Avatars to Support Teaching and Learning......Page 424 Increasing Governmental Regulations and Their Impact on IT: SOX and HIPAA......Page 428 Improving the Software Development Process by Improving the Process of Relationship Discovery......Page 431 Design of an Assistance Tool to Support the Tutor in the Setting-Up of Learning Situations......Page 434 Beyond Skill Management: Innovative Ways of Competency Catalogue Application......Page 437 Developing Best Practice in Intranet Evaluation: A Comparison of Evaluation Models for Usability and Acceptance......Page 440 Weakness of Association Rules: A Mechanism for Clustering......Page 445 Teaching Java: Applications of Programmed Instruction and Collaborative Peer Tutoring......Page 448 Improving Hospital Performance: A Framework for Designing Medical IT Systems......Page 451 Philosophical Foundations of Information Modeling......Page 453 The Challenge of Global Supply Chain: Cross-Cultural Issues in Using an Expert System Model (QuickView) to Evaluate International Small Manufacturers......Page 455 E-Business in SMEs of Thailand: A Descriptive Survey......Page 458 Can Identity Theft Defense be Practically Effective? A TAM-Derived Survey of Software-Based Deterrence to Phishing and Pharming......Page 462 Recent Trends in Innovation and Business Models in the New Digital Economy......Page 467 Users as Subjects in and of Co-Design......Page 469 Information Security: Impacts of Leadership and Organizational Culture......Page 472 Role-Based Approach to Intellectual Asset Management in Service Organizations......Page 475 The Virtual User Shopping Experience: A Multi-Faceted Classification......Page 478 Facilitators of IT-Business Alignment Between End-Users and IT Staff: A Framework......Page 480 Multimedia Influence on Learning......Page 482 Development of a Weighted Network Security Measure Based on a Software Reliability Model......Page 485 The Evaluation of IT Investments through Real Options......Page 489 The Effects of Contexts and Cognitive Characteristics on Accounting Information Processing: A Review of Behavioral Accounting and Cognitive Psychology R......Page 492 Survey on IT Industry and University Collaboration for Adaptive Course Development......Page 496 Quantitative versus Qualitative Approaches to Tacit Knowledge Testing......Page 500 Distribution of ERP System Components and Security Consideratio......Page 504 Systems Design for Requirements Expressed as a Map......Page 511 The Role of Social Networks in Tacit Knowledge Diffusion......Page 514 Designing a Balanced Data Quality Scorecard......Page 516 Enabling Multidisciplinary Learning: A Descriptive Study......Page 519 From Functional Structure to Project Structure: A Brazilian Clinical Research Company Case......Page 522 E-Assessment in Information Technology Education......Page 526 CSpec: Constraint Specification for Data Modeling......Page 529 User’s Expectations and Reality of ERP System: Implementation Experience in Higher Education......Page 535 An Analytical Model of Information Lifecycle Management......Page 537 A Formal Approach to Information Lifecycle Management......Page 541 Representing, Organizing and Reusing Knowledge About Functional and Non-Functional Concerns During Software Development......Page 544 Strategic IS Usage to Support Supply Chain Activities: A BP-ISP Integration Perspective......Page 548 Frameworks for Building Enterprise Information Architectures......Page 551 Transformational Leadership and Information Technology Management Integration Framework: A Normative Framework to Achieve Organizational Performance Effectiveness......Page 555 Modeling of DNA Transcription and Gene Regulation Using Petri Nets......Page 558 Resource Optimization on Flow Shop Scheduling for Industrial Case Using Simulation......Page 561 The Seen Playfulness as Aspect of the Distance Education......Page 564 Relating Business Processes to the Elements of Underlying IT Application......Page 569 E-Learning Systems in the Bergen Region, Norway: An Overview......Page 572 Facilitating Group Learning in IT Higher Education......Page 575 Using Educator Portals and Vignettes with Adult Online Learners......Page 577 Organisational Strategy, Structure and Culture: Influences on Organisational Knowledge Sharing......Page 581 Action Research and the Unified Process: Can They Match?......Page 585 Redundancy Reduction Utilizing XML, Web-Services and 2-D Bar Codes......Page 588 PMK: An Intelligent Environment for Project Management Education......Page 591 Measuring the Returns of Information Driven Customer Relationship Management Tools......Page 594 Lean Order Management......Page 596 A Descriptive Study of Online Privacy in the GCC Countries......Page 599 The Internet and Digital Imaging: A Recipe for Visual Deception......Page 601 Emerging Trends and Challenges in IT Management 595 Copyright © 2006, Idea Group Inc. 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Everything We Wanted to Know About Our Course, but were Afraid to Ask: Views from the Student’s Perspective......Page 605 Making Good on Municipal Promises: Can Municipal Wireless Broadband Networks Reduce Information Inequality?......Page 609 Introducing Computer-Supported Team-Based Learning: Preliminary Outcomes and Learning Impacts......Page 613 Achieving Data Quality in Engineering Asset Management......Page 617 Developing an Email Interception and Interpretation Information System to Reduce Employee Interruptions......Page 621 Interactive Television: A Study into the Diffusion of a New Technology in Britain and Ireland......Page 625 Ontology-Based Security Specification Tools for SOA......Page 629 IS to Support Innovation: Weapons of Mass Discussion?......Page 633 Visual Representation of Computer Mediated Communication Patterns in Distance Learning......Page 637 IT Support for Managing Aircraft Spares in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain Track......Page 641 Factors that Influence SMEs’ Adoption of Application Service Providers......Page 645 Towards Collaborative Worker-Centric Innovation Networks: A Conceptual Outline and Research Challenges......Page 649 Total Value Consideration for Outsourcing......Page 654 Building a Methodology for the Design of Reference Architectures that Integrates Legacy Systems......Page 658 Building HR Decision Support: Insights from Empirical Research......Page 661 Evidential Charactereization of Uncertainty in Location-Based Prediction......Page 664 A Method of Translating Business Use Cases into System Use Cases......Page 667 The Open Sources Education: A Real Time Education......Page 671 Implementing Real Time OLAP with MDDC (Multi-Dimensional Dynamic Clustering)......Page 676 Reasoning about Functional and Non-Functional Concerns during Model Refinement: A Goal-Oriented and Knowledge-Based Approach......Page 678 e-HR: A Custom Electronic Human Resources Management System......Page 682 Spim, Spam and Advertisement: Proposing a Model for Charging Privacy Intrusion and Harassment......Page 687 Analysis of Information Security in Supply Chain Management Systems......Page 690 OUML: A Language to Map Observed Usages to BPML......Page 693 A Complex Data Warehouse for Personalized, Anticipative Medicine......Page 695 ‘Herd’ Behavior and the Bull Whip Effect: Information Access, or Risks and Rewards?......Page 698 The Challenge of E-Business in China: Exploring Competitive Advantage within the Electrical Appliance Industry......Page 701 Feature Requirements in Educational Web Sites: A Q-Sort Analysis......Page 704 Building Career in Information Security Manageme......Page 706 Pathways to Producing Digital Portfolios......Page 708 Cultural Issues in Information Systems Research: A Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research......Page 710 Measuring the Business Value of IT: A Resource-Based View of Leading Indicators......Page 712 Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in E-Collaborative Teams......Page 714 A Conceptual Framework for Electronic Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM): A Strategic Approach......Page 716 Contracts for Successful Outsourcing: Analyzing the Impact of Pricing Structures, Penalty & Reward Systems, and Liability Clauses on “Good” Sourcing Relationships......Page 719 Role of Organizational Context on Digital Library’s Success Factor......Page 722 Modeling and Simulation of IEEE 802.11 WLANS: A Case Study of a Network Simulator......Page 725 Theoretical Framework for Mapping Information of Social-Technical Processes: A Case of Operating Theatre Waiting List Management Proc......Page 729 Data Management Challenges for U.S. Healthcare Providers......Page 734 The Case of eReadiness on eGovernment in Developing Nations: Case of Egypt......Page 738 An Investigation of Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Perceptions within University Campuses......Page 742 Integrated Access to Learning Objects Repositories and Digital Libraries......Page 746 Process Performance Measurement: Identifying KPI’s that Link Process Performance to Company Strategy......Page 750 Implementing Educational Technology in K-12 Public Education: The Importance of Factors to Senior School Administrators in Pennsylvania......Page 755 A Value-Driven Model for Data Manufacturing: An Application for Optimal Error-Correction Policy......Page 759 A Conceptual GeoSpatial Data Warehouse Model for Forest Information Management......Page 763 How to Integrate Public University Web Sites and Embed Learning Management Systems......Page 768 Hybrid Agent Web Service Engineering: A Case Study in Financial Application Domain......Page 772 QoS Driven Dynamic Task Assignment for BPM Systems Using Fuzzy Logic......Page 777 Determinants of 3G Mobile Video Adoption by the South African Mobile Consumer......Page 782 CMMi for Small Business: Initial Tailoring of a Mexican Organization......Page 786 Mobile Auctions: Will They Come? Will They Pay?......Page 789 Telework Implementation Toward Virtual Organization in Malaysia......Page 794 A Model for Measuring Team Size as a Surrogate for Software Development Effort......Page 797 Service-Oriented Architecture: Technology Selection and Strategic IT Management......Page 800 Integrated Approach to Risk Management for Custom Software Development and Maintenance Initiatives......Page 803 Adaptive IT Education through IT Industry Participation......Page 806 Information Mapping: A Case of Operating Theatre List Management Process......Page 809 Validating the Indicators for the Knowledge-Based Economy: A Case Study of Economic Development Board of Singapore......Page 814 The Intellectual Capital in the Public Sector: The Evaluation of Intellectual Capital of City Council Web Sites......Page 818 Quality Issues in E-Learning: Differences in Eastern and Western Approaches......Page 821 The Challenge of Telecommuting Implementation in Malaysian Government Offices......Page 823 Reasoning about Functional and Non-Functional Concerns During Model Refinement: A Goal-Oriented and Knowledge-Based Approach......Page 826 Software Risk Mitigation through Web Services......Page 830 The Retaliatory Feedback Problem: Evidence from eBay and a Proposed Solution......Page 832 Facilitating Successful Business Process Management Projects: Pitfalls and Success Factors......Page 835 Building HR Decision Support: Insights from Theory......Page 839 The Determinants of Information Resource Management: Substantiating a Construct......Page 842 Cyberloafing: Vice or Virtue?......Page 844 Cognitive Antecedents of Trust in Electronic Commerce Among Chinese Internet Users......Page 846 Unintended Consequences of Instant Messaging in the Workplace: An Empirical Study......Page 849 Information Technology and the Ethics of Globalization......Page 852 Web Ontologies and Philosophical Aspects of Knowledge Management......Page 854 Predicting Online Customer Shopping Behavior......Page 856 Toward a Quality Model for Enterprise Information Systems in Developing Countries: A Jamaican Case Study......Page 860 Modeling of CHO Metabolism and Krebs Cycle Using Petri-Nets (PN)......Page 864 A Practical X10 Protocol Implementation Over a Cellular Network Using SMS......Page 867 Advanced Multi-Modal User Interfaces for Mobile Devices: Integration of Visualization, Speech Interaction and Task Modeling......Page 872 SAP®/R3TM as Part of a Federated ERP System Environment......Page 875 Information Systems in Developing Countries: Reasons for Failure – Jordan, Case Study......Page 878 Transforming Universities from Teaching Organizations to Learning Organizations by Implementing eKM: A Pakistani Public Sector University Scenario......Page 881 Developing Successful Strategies for ICT Initiatives in the Public Sector: The Case of Electronic Government Strategies in a U.S. City......Page 886 Managing Outsourced Support for ERP Systems......Page 887 Human-Centric Challenges in Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Web: A Perspective from Patterns Ontology......Page 889 Semantic Web-Enabled Web Engineering: The Case of Patterns......Page 891 Integrating Information Security and Assurance into MIS Curriculums......Page 893 Expert Workshop: Mobile Business Outlook 2008-2010......Page 895 Identify the Effective Factors to Select the Appropriate Form of Collaboration between One Company and Other Companies in Information Technology Industry of Iran......Page 898 Architecting Personalized Information Retrieval and Access Services in Data Intensive Domains......Page 902 Modeling of Project Dynamics in IT Sector: A System Dynamics Approach for Resource Optimization from a Risk Perspective......Page 905 A Global Culture for E-Learning......Page 908 A Services-Oriented Approach to Developing Security Policies for Trustworthy Systems......Page 911 A Systematic View of ERP Implementation......Page 914 The Wireless Impact on the Legal System: A Case Study of a Law Firm......Page 916 A User Needs Assessment of a Cultural Heritage Portal: The Singapore Infopedia......Page 918 A Content-Based Approach to Image Retrieval in Medical Applications......Page 921 Strategic and Operational Benefits of B2B Data Exchange Technologies in Supply Chain Management......Page 923 The Use of Hard and Soft Technologies for Knowledge Management in Small Businesses......Page 926 The Benefits of an E-Business Performance Measurement System......Page 928 Performance Measurement for E-Government Scenarios: A Reference Process Model Based Approach......Page 930 Methodology Issues in Enterprise System Implementations......Page 932 A Proposed Software Architecture for Graphical Data Manipulation in the Context of a Mobile GIS for the Tourism Industry in Mauritius......Page 935 A Cross-Country Comparison of Software Piracy Determinants Among University Students: Demographics, Ethical Attitudes and Socio-Economic Factors......Page 937 Cross-Cultural Issues in Global Information Systems Development......Page 940 A Risk-Based Approach to Auditing Relational Databases......Page 942 Leveraging Collaborative Technologies for Sharing Tacit Knowledge: An Integrative Model......Page 944 One Size Does Not Fit All: Modeling the Relationship between System Development Methodology and the Web-Based System Environment......Page 947 A Methodology for Educational Software Evaluation (ESE)......Page 949 Understanding the Impact of Innovation Characteristics and Individual Factors on Adoption of Online Channels......Page 952 Variations in Adoption Factors and Use of E-Commerce Among Small Businesses: Are All SMEs the Same?......Page 954 A Digital Preservation Ingest Parsing Service for Complex Data Objects......Page 957 Research Information Management System: BioRio......Page 959 The Architecture of Presence Investigation for Remote Control......Page 961 E-Marketplace: A Generic Electronic Catalogue Framework for SMEs......Page 964 The Dispositions of Professional Educators Contemplating the Use of The Readingpen as a Motivational Factor to Increase Reading Fluency......Page 967 Combat the Menace of Scope Creep of Development Projects through the Use of EUReqa Methodology: A Collaborative and Iterative Requirement Engineering Process......Page 970 Online Education as a Technology Innovation in Higher Education......Page 973 Security by Integration, Correlation, and Collaboration: Integrating Verification Reusable Agents into SOAP Messages......Page 976 Web Ontology as E-Business Information Exchange and Decision Support Tool......Page 978 Organizational Administrative Information Mangement: Issues Concerning Distribution, Retention, and Availability of Work-Related Information......Page 980 The Current State of the MIS Course: A Study of Business Program IS Curriculum Implementation......Page 982 Research in Progress: A Field Study of Career Anchors and Women in the IT Force......Page 984 The Role of E-Collaboration in Participative Budgeting......Page 986 Cognitive Reconstructive Remote Sensing for Decision Support in Environmental Resource Management......Page 988 Intelligent Processing for SAR Imagery for Environmental Management......Page 991 The Use of Paralingual Web Pages to Improve Trust in E-Government Web Sites in Regions of Highly Bilingual Populations......Page 994 Managing Concurrent XML Structures: The Multi-Structured Document Building Process......Page 996 Web Services Based Tools for Personal Financial Planning......Page 999 The Impact of Distance Learning on Graduation Rates for Information Systems Students......Page 1002 Agile Practices, Promises of Rigor, and Information Systems Quality......Page 1004 Exotic Options with Stochastic Volatilities......Page 1007 Adoption of Pharmaceutical Sales Force Automation Systems: An Exploratory Study......Page 1009 Speed Analysis of Camera Motion in Video Sequence......Page 1011 Small Business Experience and Governance of Employee Own......Page 1014 The Influence of Educational, Social, and Economic Factors on the International Digital Divide, as Measured by IT Usage and Expenditure......Page 1016 Virtual Project Risk......Page 1019 The Impact of Information Technology on Productive Efficiency: An International Comparison......Page 1021 E-Business Innovation and Firm Performance......Page 1023 A Prototype Decision Support System for ERP Evaluation in Small and Medium Enterprises......Page 1025 Stimulating Creativity and Innovation through People-Concepts Connectivity within On-Line Collaborative Workspaces......Page 1028 Evaluation of E-Commerce in Continental Native American Nations......Page 1031 Estimating Signal Strengths in Indoor Wireless Systems in Order to Deliver a Cost-Effective Solution Optimizing the Performance of the Network......Page 1034 Application of a Collaborative Virtual Environment for Learning Molecular Biology......Page 1037 Trends of Web Services Adoption: A Synthesis......Page 1040 RFID: Risks to the Supply Chain......Page 1043 Course Management Systems: A Tool for International Student Collaboration......Page 1046 Implementing Educational Technology in K-12 Public Education: The Importance of Factors to Senior School Administrators in Pennsylvania......Page 1048 ETMS-Web: A Low-Cost Innovative Solution to Manage the Sale Staff......Page 1052 Knowledge Dissemination Using a Hybrid of Teaching Techniques: Lessons Learned from the Case of The American University in Cairo......Page 1055 Potential Weaknesses in Risk Assessment for Business Data Communications......Page 1059 The Safety Effect of the Red Light Running Cameras: Applying Data Mining Techniques Using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Data......Page 1061 Building a Tool for Expertise Discovery......Page 1063 Information and Knowledge Sharing by Undergraduate Students in Singapore......Page 1067 Role of Information Exchange in Damping Supply Chain Oscillations......Page 1071 A Cross-Sectional Study on Internet Searching Skills by Health Facilities of a Latin-American University1......Page 1072 IT Global Sourcing: What is its State of Maturity?......Page 1073 Evaluation of Multicarrier Modulation Technique Using Linear Devices......Page 1074 The Potential and Perils of Information Technology Portfolio Management......Page 1075 International Tracking and Reporting Systems for Combating the HIV/AIDS Pandemic......Page 1076 Web-Based Systems for Distance Education and e-Learning: Towards e-Learning Online Communities......Page 1077 Listening to Learn: Educating Information Age Leaders......Page 1078 A Framework of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Implementation in Kenya: An Empirical Study......Page 1079 Attracting Female High School Students to the IT In