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This paper describes a highly effective two-semester client-oriented team-based approach in which students get their first "real" research and development experience in a carefully guided environment that fashions theory into product. Examples used describe how a problem space in mobile devices can be scoped to design tenable software solutions and then how to build one of these designs into what a customer seeks, thereby effectively providing what society increasingly requires from educational institutions in developing mobile device applications., Presented at IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training Waikiki (24th) held in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 22, 2011. The original document contains color images.

Software attacks such as worms and viruses are detected in an electronic device by monitoring power consumption patterns. In a first embodiment, software attacks are detected by an increase in power consumption. The increased power consumption can be caused by increased network traffic, or by increased activity in the microprocessor. Monitoring power consumption is particularly effective for detecting DOS/flooding attacks when the electronic device is in an idle state. In a second embodiment, a power consumption signal is converted to the frequency domain (e.g., by fast Fourier transform). The highest amplitude frequencies are identified. Specific software attacks produce characteristic frequencies in the power consumption signal. Software attacks are therefore detected by matching the highest amplitude frequencies with frequencies associated with specific worms and viruses. Identification of a particular software attack typically requires matching of 3 or more of the highest amplitude frequencies, and, optionally, amplitude information.

Although many corporations store a great deal of information in their corporate intranets, few have a reliable means of measuring the effectiveness of their intranet portals to use this information to meet specific business needs. Turning information into knowledge capital that corporations can leverage quickly for competitive advantage requires a model and metrics that tractably support it. Most intranet portal measurements are based almost exclusively on usage statistics - with little or no thought given to design or user experience - and corporations apply them in a non-standardized manner, providing no meaningful insight into how well intranets help corporations achieve their strategic objectives., Prepared in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Sponsored in part by AFOSR under project F1ATA05192G001. Published in Communications of the ACM Journal, v3 n50. A more extensive version of this research was presented at the 2004 International Multi-Conference in Computer Science and Engineering. The original document contains color images.

By linking metrics and conversion ratios to key business processes, the intranet efficiency and effectiveness model helps corporations design better software for intranet portals.

This research provides the first theoretical model, the Intranet Efficiency and Effectiveness Model (IEEM), to measure intranet overall value contributions based on a corporation’s critical business requirements by applying a balanced baseline of metrics and conversion ratios linked to key business processes of knowledge workers, IT managers and business decision makers -- in effect, closing the gap of understanding between them and enabling better software to be designed for Intranet portals.

This research provides the first theoretical model the Intranet Efficiency and Effectiveness Model (IEEM) for the Family of measures approach to measure Web activity as well as a holistic framework and multi-disciplinary quality paradigm approach not previously derived in viewing and measuring intranet contributions in the context of a corporation's overall critical business requirements. This is accomplished by applying a balanced baseline set of metrics and conversion rations linked to business processes as they relate to knowledge workers, IT managers and business decision makers seeking to increase value. It also outlines who should conduct these measurements and how in the form of a business intelligence team and provides a means in which to calculate return on intranet metrics investment (ROIMI) with a common unit of analysis for both aggregate and sub-corporate levels through forms of the Knowledge Value Added (KVA) and Activity Based Costing (ABC) methodologies., The original document contains color images.

This research provides the first theoretical model--the Intranet Efficiency and Effectiveness Model (IEEM)--for the Family of Measures approach to measure Web activity as well as a holistic framework and multi-disciplinary quality paradigm approach not previously derived in viewing and measuring intranet contributions in the context of a corporation's overall critical business requirements. This is accomplished by applying a balanced baseline set of metrics and conversion rations linked to business processes as they relate to knowledge workers, IT managers and business decision makers seeking to increase value. It also outlines who should conduct these measurements and how in the form of a business intelligence team and provides a means in which to calculate return on intranet metrics investment (ROIMI) with a common unit of analysis for both aggregate and sub-corporate levels through forms of the Knowledge Value Added (KVA) and Activity Based Costing (ABC) methodologies., http://archive.org/details/ametricmodelfori109459824, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.