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The article focuses on broken hyperlink references in research papers (reference rot) and methods to combat this problem. It states online archiving services like the Internet Archive and Harvard Law School Library's web-archiving service Perma allow researchers to store permanent copies of webpages as they viewed it when preparing manuscripts. It talks about the web archive project Memento which provides users access to all saved version of the web page and allow access to web-at-large links.

This article presents information pertaining to the periodical, its parent body, the American Finance Association, and the publisher, Blackwell Publishing. Most importantly, contact information is provided along with computer network resources, information regarding potential advertisements, and a listing of articles that appear in the current issue. The article also discusses prizes awarded by the American Finance Association for research papers, including the Smith-Breeden Prizes for 2006 and the Brattle Awards for 2007.

This paper introduces WikiWikiWeb software, also known as Wiki, for use in library and information management contexts. Wikis provide an environment for Web-based collaboration and can also be used for Web site content management. The article includes an overview of the history and development of Wiki, as well as discussing basic and advanced Wiki features. It compares three Wiki engines and describes seven case studies of real-world library and library-related Wiki applications. The paper concludes with a discussion of factors that can contribute to a successful Wiki project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on scientific literature on the Web. Information on citation indexing; Details on autonomous citation indexing (ACI); Processing and parsing documents. INSET: Obtaining CiteSeer.

Discusses the benefits of Groupware, a generic term for network-based software design for student learning activities. Features of the software; Theoretical justification on the use of groupware; How to use the tool.

The article discusses some of the useful recommendations services for the researchers which would help them in locating the recent research papers and articles. Topics include options such as Google Scholar, Twitter, and Sparrho and experiences of academic researchers such as Casey Bergman, Ross Mounce, and Cassie Ettinger. Also discussed is search with keywords and filters for the scientists along with features of search engines such as PubChase and Scizzle.

For complex datapaths, resource sharing can help reduce area consumption. Traditionally, resource sharing is applied when the same resource can be scheduled for different uses in different cycles, often resulting in a longer schedule. Multipumping is a method whereby a resource is clocked at a frequency that is a multiple of the surrounding circuit, thereby offering multiple executions per global clock cycle. This allows a single resource to be shared among multiple uses in the same cycle. This concept maps well to modern field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), where hard macro blocks are typically capable of running at higher frequencies than most designs implemented in the logic fabric. While this technique has been demonstrated for static resources, modern digital signal processing (DSP) blocks are flexible, supporting varied operations at runtime. In this paper, we demonstrate multipumping for resource sharing of the flexible DSP48E1 macros in Xilinx FPGAs. We exploit their dynamic programmability to enable resource sharing for the full set of supported DSP block operations, and compare this to multipumping only multipliers and DSP blocks with fixed configurations. The proposed approach saves on average 48% DSP blocks at a cost of 74% more LUTs, effectively saving 30% equivalent LUT area and is feasible for the majority of designs, in which clock frequency is typically below half the maximum supported by the DSP blocks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Maintenance of ever-expanding road networks all over the world is a critical task and regular monitoring of the road surface is imperative for successful maintenance. Existing monitoring techniques use dedicated vehicles equipped with sensors. Limited availability of these specialized vehicles makes regular monitoring very challenging. This paper explores a novel approach of empowering the smartphone user community for monitoring roads that they use. Smartphones are used for sensing the road surface conditions from a moving vehicle. The system involves client applications on smartphones that collect accelerations as the users travel on the roads, processing of the information and communication to a central server, georeference database, and visualization of road conditions on Google maps. In this paper, the fuzzy logic--based road surface roughness classification is proposed for monitoring the road roughness. The implementation has been demonstrated in different road networks at northern region of India. The experiment demonstrates the huge potential of user community participation in maintenance of road infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Privacy as a software quality is becoming more important these days and should not be underestimated during the development of software that processes personal data. The privacy goal of intervenability, in contrast to unlinkability (including anonymity and pseudonymity), has so far received little attention in research. Intervenability aims for the empowerment of end-users by keeping their personal data and how it is processed by the software system under their control. Several surveys have pointed out that the lack of intervenability options is a central privacy concern of end-users. In this paper, we systematically assess the privacy goal of intervenability and set up a software requirements taxonomy that relates the identified intervenability requirements with a taxonomy of transparency requirements. Furthermore, we provide a tool-supported method to identify intervenability requirements from the functional requirements of a software system. This tool-supported method provides the means to elicit and validate intervenability requirements in a computer-aided way. Our combined taxonomy of intervenability and transparency requirements gives a detailed view on the privacy goal of intervenability and its relation to transparency. We validated the completeness of our taxonomy by comparing it to the relevant literature that we derived based on a systematic literature review. The proposed method for the identification of intervenability requirements shall support requirements engineers to elicit and document intervenability requirements in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I discuss how three funding agencies have presented or discussed the concept of cognitive innovation in formulating their research programs, calls or funding opportunities on their website. Gummerum and Denham recognize the association between the innovator, innovation and the contextual challenge of the concept of cognitive innovation and its impact on society (Gummerum & Denham, 2014). Research funders make decisions to allocate resources to certain research questions and not others. Researchers attempt to understand how these decisions are made and consider them in applying for funding to them. One of the information sources that researchers can use to inform what areas of research they can get funding for or how to formulate their research grants is the public information on the website of the funding agencies. In this paper, I only focus on the information presented on their website and not their internal processes or policies. The approach of funding agencies to present what is categorized as innovation or creativity has the potential to influence how researchers focus or frame their research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the event of natural or man-made disasters, providing rapid situational awareness through video/image data collected at salient incident scenes is often critical to the first responders. However, computer vision techniques that can process the media-rich and data-intensive content obtained from civilian smartphones or surveillance cameras require large amounts of computational resources or ancillary data sources that may not be available at the geographical location of the incident. In this paper, we propose an incident-supporting visual cloud computing solution by defining a collection, computation, and consumption (3C) architecture supporting fog computing at the network edge close to the collection/consumption sites, which is coupled with cloud offloading to a core computation, utilizing software-defined networking (SDN). We evaluate our 3C architecture and algorithms using realistic virtual environment test beds. We also describe our insights in preparing the cloud provisioning and thin-client desktop fogs to handle the elasticity and user mobility demands in a theater-scale application. In addition, we demonstrate the use of SDN for on-demand compute offload with congestion-avoiding traffic steering to enhance remote user quality of experience in a regional-scale application. The optimization between fogs computing at the network edge with core cloud computing for managing visual analytics reduces latency, congestion, and increases throughput. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents the second bibliography on issues related to transmission access in electric power systems. Citations referenced in the bibliography; List of web sites devoted to energy and power engineering; Government web sites; Conclusions.

Especially in the field of numerical simulations, such as flow and acoustic simulations, the interest in using virtual 3D models to optimize urban systems is increasing. The few instances in which simulations were already carried out in practice have been associated with an extremely high manual and therefore uneconomical effort for the processing of models. Using different ways of capturing models in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), increases the already very high complexity of the processing. To obtain virtual 3D models suitable for simulation, we developed a tool for automatic processing with the goal to establish ties between the world of GIS and CAE. In this paper we introduce a way to use Coons surfaces for the automatic processing of building models in LoD2, and investigate ways to simplify LoD3 models in order to reduce unnecessary information for a numerical simulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the role of information technology and CAATTs and the way they could increase companies' effectiveness in the near future. Our study focuses on the global trend of adopting new technologies at a large scale in internal audit in order to produce high qualitative audit results. The present paper highlights the necessary changes faced by companies during the CAATTs' adoption process. Organizations arrive to change their conduct of business and to promote efficiency above all. The conclusion of our study states that new technologies and CAATTs do have a significant impact on internal audit and risk management as well as on corporate governance as a whole. Moreover, our findings demonstrate that auditors should be prepared to use effectively those techniques and tools by increasing their skills and core competencies concerning auditing and data analysis and especially their capacity to understand and foresee risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computers are central in processing scientific data. This data is typically expressed as numbers and strings. Appropriate annotation of "bare" data is required to allow people or machines to interpret it and to relate the data to real-world phenomena. In scientific practice however, annotations are often incomplete and ambiguous - let alone machine interpretable. This holds for reports and papers, but also for spreadsheets and databases. Moreover, in practice it is often unclear how the data has been created. This hampers interpretation, reproduction and reuse of results and thus leads to suboptimal science. In this paper we focus on annotation of scientific computations. For this purpose we propose the ontology OQR (Ontology of Quantitative Research). It includes a way to represent generic scientific methods and their implementation in software packages, invocation of these methods and handling of tabular datasets. This ontology promotes annotation by humans, but also allows automatic, semantic processing of numerical data. It allows scientists to understand the selected settings of computational methods and to automatically reproduce data generated by others. A prototype application demonstrates this can be done, illustrated by a case in food research. We evaluate this case with a number of researchers in the considered domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the continuous expansion of the application scope of computer network technology, various malicious attacks that exist in the Internet range have caused serious harm to computer users and network resources. This paper attempts to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to computer network technology and research on the application of AI in computing network technology. Designing an intrusion detection model based on improved back propagation (BP) neural network. By studying the attack principle, analyzing the characteristics of the attack method, extracting feature data, establishing feature sets, and using the agent technology as the supporting technology, the simulation experiment is used to prove the improvement effect of the system in terms of false alarm rate, convergence speed, and false negative rate, the rate reached 86.7%. The results show that this fast algorithm reduces the training time of the network, reduces the network size, improves the classification performance, and improves the intrusion detection rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The network link speed is growing at an ever-increasing rate, which requires all network functions on routers/switches to keep pace. Bloom filter is a widely-used membership check data structure in networking applications. Correspondingly, it also faces the urgent demand of improving the performance in membership check speed. To this end, this paper proposes a new Bloom filter variant called Ultra-Fast Bloom Filters (UFBF), by leveraging the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) techniques. We make three improvements for UFBF to accelerate the membership check speed. First, we develop a novel hash computation algorithm which can compute multiple hash functions in parallel with the use of SIMD instructions. Second, we elaborate a Bloom filter’s bit-test process from sequential to parallel, enabling more bit-tests per unit time. Third, we improve the cache efficiency of membership check by encoding an element’s information to a small block so that it can fit into a cache-line. We further generalize UFBF, called c-UFBF, to make UFBF supporting large number of hash functions. Both theoretical analysis and extensive evaluations show that the UFBF greatly outperforms the state-of-the-art Bloom filter variants on membership check speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have collected a large dataset - more than 21 000 websites - through web-crawling the public resources of the Czech Internet. The proposed method for website hosting detection along with their geographic location and software were applied on the collected data to extend basic statistical information about the Czech websites published by the national domain registrar CZ.NIC. For analysis, we divided the data into nine categories to show differences between them, for example, between the public and private sector. The procedures used in this paper may also be applied for an extended analysis of websites in other countries, for example, for verification of fulfillment of legal directives to be implemented by public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, by integrating the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with the mobile edge cloud computing (MEC) technology, mobile service provider (MSP) can efficiently handle the increasing mobile traffic and enhance the capabilities of mobile devices. But the power consumption has become skyrocketing for MSP and it gravely affects the profit of MSP. Previous work often studied the power consumption in C-RAN and MEC separately while less work had considered the integration of C-RAN with MEC. In this paper, we present an unifying framework for the power-performance tradeoff of MSP by jointly scheduling network resources in C-RAN and computation resources in MEC to maximize the profit of MSP. To achieve this objective, we formulate the resource scheduling issue as a stochastic problem and design a new optimization framework by using an extended Lyapunov technique. Specially, because the standard Lyapunov technique critically assumes that job requests have fixed lengths and can be finished within each decision making interval, it is not suitable for the dynamic situation where the mobile job requests have variable lengths. To solve this problem, we extend the standard Lyapunov technique and design the VariedLen algorithm to make online decisions in consecutive time for job requests with variable lengths. Our proposed algorithm can reach time average profit that is close to the optimum with a diminishing gap (1/V) for the MSP while still maintaining strong system stability and low congestion. With extensive simulations based on a real world trace, we demonstrate the efficacy and optimality of our proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the production technology facing computerized credit unions in Canada. A full system of translog cost equations is estimated in order to test for economies of scale, economies of scope, and other production characteristics in a multiproduct context. The regression results indicate that most of the credit unions in our sample experience significant increasing returns to scale as they expand their level of output. There is also evidence of cost complementarity or economies of scope in their mortgage and other lending activities. As a result, legislation which limits the ability of credit unions to grow and diversify will likely raise the operating costs of this important group of financial institutions. Additional structural tests of the most general translog specification suggest that none of the restrictive production conditions commonly imposed by other researchers using Cobb-Douglas and CES specifications provide a valid representation of credit union technology. The results of many earlier studies are therefore open to question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the impact of Web-based homeworks compared to paper-based homeworks on students engaged in a finance course. It notes various studies which reveals that groups given web-based homeworks and paper-based homeworks showed no significant differences in student performance. According to the author, students who are Hispanics and are major in accounting prefer web-based homework while Anglo management major students prefer paper-based.

While development of the Internet has contributed to the spread of online education, online exams have not been widely adopted. An online exam is defined here as one that takes place over the insecure Internet, and where no proctor is in the same location as the examinees. This paper proposes an enhanced secure online exam management environment mediated by group cryptography using remote monitoring and control of ports and input. The target domain of this paper is that of online exams for math or English contests in middle or high school, as well as exams in online university courses with students in remote locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) was launched in October 2007 and, in this first phase, digitally published several thousand of Twain's letters, almost 100 facsimiles of original documents, and over 28,000 records of other correspondence. The partners involved in the building of MTPO – the Mark Twain Papers, the California Digital Library, and University of California Press – created the site on the premise that Web-accessible versions of this content, enhanced by innovative design and site architecture and a suite of research tools, would greatly improve scholars' ability to discover and work with this unique material. Anecdotal feedback supports this premise. Early data analysis confirms the usefulness of facsimiles and browsing functionality. Users tend to prefer simple keyword over complex searches; however, those conducting advanced searches are using the tool flexibly, as we had hoped. Further analysis is expected to improve our understanding of how researchers use these tools in combination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zoological medicine furthers the health and well- being of captive and free-ranging wild animals. Effective information retrieval of the zoological medicine literature demands searching multiple databases, conference proceedings, and organization websites using a wide variety of keywords and controlled vocabulary. Veterinarians, residents, students, and the librarians who serve them must have patience for multiple search iterations to capture the majority of the available knowledge. The complexities of thorough literature searches are more difficult for nondomestic animal clinical cases and research reviews as demonstrated by three search requests involving poisonous snakes, a gorilla, and spiders. Expanding and better disseminating the knowledgebase of zoological medicine will make veterinary searching easier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the rationale, the background and the structure for version 2.0 of the GENESTAT information portal (www.genestat.org) for statistical genetics. The fast methodological advances, coupled with a range of standalone software, makes it difficult for expert as well as non-expert users to orientate when designing and analysing their genetic studies. The ultimate ambition of GENESTAT is to guide on statistical methodology related to the broad spectrum of research in genetic epidemiology. GENESTAT 2.0 focuses on genetic association studies. Each entry provides a summary of a topic and gives links to key papers, websites and software. The flexibility of the internet is utilised for cross-referencing and for open editing. This paper gives an overview of GENESTAT and gives short introductions to the current main topics in GENESTAT, with additional entries on the website. Methods and software developers are invited to contribute to the portal, which is powered by a Wikipedia-type engine and allows easy additions and editing.European Journal of Human Genetics (2009) 17, 533–536; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.216; published online 12 November 2008 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how the Internet has changed the work of academic researchers and addresses the question of how expanded Internet usage has affected Journal of Risk and Insurance ( JRI) and Journal of Finance ( JF) articles, including the shift to empirical research, joint authorship, and new authorship. Internet availability significantly increased joint authorship overall (more for JF than for JRI), shifting upwards a strong secular trend toward working with other researchers. Another big impact of the Internet has been to increase the number of new authors (more for JRI than for JF). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information technology has led to the fact that much of the information that earlier was produced on paper is now being produced in electronic form. E-government services, where the whole idea is to exchange information electronically, will radically redirect paperbound information towards electronically generated and managed information and documents. Earlier on, long-term preservation was all about paper-bound documents containing content, context and format as well as the legal issues concerning the document, such as signatures and stamps. Although paper-bound documents still are of frequent use, the degree of digital information rapidly increases. Digital information is often compiled from different databases, where content, context, format and signatures can be separated and put together differently. The challenges associated with digital preservation are strategic, organizational and structural as well as technological. The aim of this paper is to present some challenges associated with digital preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including a paper on sharing digital open educational resources, a conceptualization of microblog Twitter chat as a continuous multilogue, and teaching observations as a lens for self-reflection.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ attitude towards an e-learning English model named Learn English Pathways ( LEP) . This course is assigned for freshmen students of Delta University, as a training material for accessing APTIS test. This research seeks answers for the following questions: 1. Does using e- learning software program influence students' attitude towards learning English as a foreign language positively? 2- What are the advantages of e learning in improving English language skills among freshmen students? To achieve the goals of the paper, a questionnaire was distributed to the subjects of this study. Its items aimed at eliciting whether the students think that using e- learning models enriched their learning process and made it easier or it had no effect on them. The population of this study was 100 of freshmen students at Delta University, during the academic year 2015- 2016. The students filled out a questionnaire and completed a course evaluation at the end of the experiment. The t-test scores were statistically evaluated. The findings of this paper reveal that LEP influences the students’ overall attitude towards English learning language. The different activities that are provided by LEP have been described with an analysis of how they can be used to develop EFL students’ language proficiency and self education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to acquire 3D information for reconstruction of vanished historical structure, grasp of 3D shape of such structure was attempted by using an ancient picture. Generally, 3D information of a structure is acquired by photogrammetric theory which requires two or more pictures. This paper clarifies that the geometrical information of the structure was obtained only from an ancient picture, and 3D information was acquired. This kind of method was applied for an ancient picture of the Old Imperial Theatre. The Old Imperial Theatre in the picture is constituted by two-point perspective. Therefore, estimated value of focal length of camera, length of camera to the Old Imperial Theatre and some parameters were calculated by estimation of field angle, using body height as an index of length and some geometrical information. Consequently, 3D coordinate of 120 measurement points on the surface of the Old Imperial Theatre were calculated respectively, and 3DCG modeling of the Old Imperial Theatre was realized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been argued that there are enormous advantages to integrating laptops into foreign language teaching to help teachers and students become capable of communicating and collaborating with native and nonnative speakers around the globe. This paper aims at underscoring the advantages of using laptops in Teaching English as a Second Language classrooms. It investigates and elucidates different methods and practices that can help English language learners enhance their learning skills through using this technology as well as makes English teachers aware of strategies they can use effectively. Through examining various primary studies and prominent case studies, the paper identifies the shortcomings and inadequacies of the existing conventional English language learning tools. It is necessary for second language teaching to adapt and renew itself in order to be compatible with the globalized world. The paper establishes that the application of laptops is beneficial in providing a wealth of resources that allow students to become active learners by creating content for a worldwide audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific and technical terminology represents a very topical issue in economically and technologically dependent countries with small languages such as Serbian. The current terminological problems in the Serbian language, especially in specialized areas that are experiencing dynamic development, are: Anglicization of the language for special purposes, underdeveloped and unstable terminology, and lack of adequate and modern terminological and lexical resources. On the one hand, the terminological problems listed above are of concern to subject-field specialists, since inadequate and non-existent terminology significantly affects the representation, transfer and management of specialized knowledge and information. On the other hand, terminology and language planners point to the growing need for immediate and systematic intervention aimed at terminology harmonization, consolidation and standardization. In spite of the awareness, there is no systematic approach to the solving of terminological problems in Serbian. In addition, practical activities regarding the collection and organization of terminology are few and reduced to individual initiatives. Under the paradigm of language planning (LP)-oriented terminology management (2), this paper is going to address a practical activity of terminology management: the creation of a Serbian management terminology database (TDB) with equivalent terms in English. The paper will discuss the methodology of terminology work, potential obstacles in termbase creation, as well as potential benefits that such a resource would have on all its potential users: management specialists and practitioners, professional translators, and language and terminology planners. A particular focus will be placed on the potential significance that this kind of a database would have for terminology policy and planning in the Serbian language, on the one hand, and knowledge transfer and management, on the other hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increasing complexity of software systems, there is a growing need for automated and scalable software synthesis and analysis. In the last decade, active research in the formal methods community brought interesting results and valuable tools. However, there are still challenges to face and hard problems that need to be solved. We briefly outline some recent trends, and review some of the latest achievements, introducing six papers selected from the 20th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research reported in this paper aims to develop a household water use identification method through signal pattern analysis. An experimental facility was constructed to simulate bathroom and kitchen water use. The data acquisition system used a volumetric water meter with pulsed output, pressure transducers, data acquisition with a Universal Serial Bus interface interconnected with the Cyble sensor and a laptop computer. The data analysis was performed using a pattern recognition algorithm to identify the hydraulic fixtures in use. Five classes of water use were considered, as follows: (1) kitchen faucet (KF), (2) washbasin faucet (WF), (3) bidet (BD), (4) shower (SH), and (5) toilet flush (TF). Two algorithms were used to identify the best classifier for the data, as follows: (1) multilayer perceptron, and (2) support vector machine (SVM). The fusion by majority vote regarding the results of SVM in the time domain showed the best accuracy; 92% accuracy for kitchen faucet, 94% for washbasin faucet, 94% for bidet, 100% for the shower, and 100% for toilet flush, thus supporting the use of signal signatures of flow and pressure in identifying the hydraulic fixtures in use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jovan Cvijić said that geography is learned on foot. Besides fieldwork, the modern studies imply the usage of various software packages, as well as the data sources available from the Internet. All the data acquired from the Internet need to be carefully checked, unless they are retrieved from the websites of the established formal institutions (Government, Institutes, and Offices). Very often the Internet information may be in the form of data which should be additionally processed by using mathematical and statistics methods. Possibilities for Internet usage will be shown through presentation of the relief characteristics of the mountains Studena and Žaračka, which belong to Kopaonik system. They make a connection between Mt. Goč and Mt. Stolovi in the north and the massif of Mt. Željin and Mt. Kopaonik in the south. Taking into consideration that Mt. Studena and Mt. Žaračka were not previously studied by geographers, this paper is the contribution to the knowledge on these mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Internet is bringing profound changes in scholarly publishing and new opportunities for learned societies to serve their communities. The American Economic Association (AEA) maintains a Web site, which contains the three AEA journals, bibliographic information, links to various economics information, and various services by AEA members. All three AEA journals, the American Economic Review (AER), the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP), are on AEAweb. Access to online journals is restricted to AEA members with passwords. The JELs online articles date back to December 1994, the AER's and the JEP's to the start of 1999. The final, ready-to-print versions of JEL articles will be available on the e-JEL site prior to the printing of the journal. Web connectivity will also make possible productivity-enhancing tools such as electronic paper submission, refereeing, and proof distribution and correction. These improvements will reduce the time from article submission to publication in the AEA journals.

Brand attributes play an important role in tracking customer-based brand equity. Therefore researchers need an effective approach for eliciting attributes. This paper has two aims: to determine which of four different techniques elicit(s) better results; and to test if online data collection is a viable alternative to face to- face collection. The techniques compared are: Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), Free Elicitation (FE), Repertory Grid (RG) and Projective Elicitation (PE). These approaches are compared on the number and variety of attributes generated, as well as respondent evaluation. FE is the best-performing technique in a face-to-face context, generating the most attributes, evaluated positively by respondents and providing a typical distribution of attribute types. We also provide evidence that online is a viable data collection method for attribute elicitation studies, except ZMET due to respondent drop-out. Online we recommend a combination of FE and PE to obtain a range and variety of responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These instructions give guidelines for preparing papers for this publication. Presents information for authors publishing in this journal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To provide an expose of digital-age library and information science (LIS) education for an African agenda, this paper adopts an emergent qualitative research design by drawing on the literature on LIS education in Africa. It also draws on data gleaned from a survey of heads of schools of LIS in South Africa, and from content analyses of LIS school websites in South Africa and selected parts of the continent. The paper locates its narrative within Abbott's chaos of disciplines theory and concludes that the LIS discipline's "interstitial nature," its "fractal distinctions in time," and the resulting chaos of disciplines should not be seen as a crisis for LIS education in Africa and globally, but as an opportunity for a paradigm shift to broaden the LIS disciplinary domain and to stake an intellectual claim on this extended domain--and so contribute to the growth and development of LIS services in Africa within the context of an African development agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various topics within the issue including language learning spaces, socio-communicative aspects of the social networking site Facebook, and use of computers in vocabulary strategies.

The article deals with the challenges from and to the senior editors of the "Journal of Information Systems" concerning accounting information systems (AIS). Topics discussed include the primary role of the journal, the nature of AIS, and the achievements of the journal under the leadership of senior editor Miklos Vasarhelyi. Also mentioned are the current and future trends in AIS research.

The safety of a company's secrets and proprietary competitive practices becomes an important concern when the company is involved in outsourcing. This concern becomes even more critical when the company is engaged in analytics outsourcing where the company shares proprietary data about the internal processes. While there is a growing concern about the larger costs and risks of the wholesale outsourcing of analytics functions in the business press, there are no statistics on the risks or a sense of how big they might be. This paper attempts to fill this gap by building a mathematical model of the vendor-client interaction that will allow some baseline quantification of the risks that are inherent in analytics outsourcing. The paper also discusses the implications of these ideas for companies that work with outsourcing vendors and closes with some ideas for further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]