The U.S. national electric grid is facing significant changes due to aggressive federal and state targets to decrease emissions while improving grid efficiency and reliability. Additional challenges include supply/demand imbalances, transmission constraints, and aging infrastructure. A...

Managing projects in an organization, especially a project-oriented organization, is a challenging task. Project data has a large volume and is complex to manage. It is different from managing a single project, because one needs to integrate and synthesize information from multiple projects and...

Nowdays, the business development of company depend on the advanced information technology awned by company and the skill of human resources in apply the technology. Hospital is a health care institution in addition state or private owned business unit with two role, i.e as social agent and as...

This dissertation, consisting of four independent but complementary research papers, examines buying behavior of consumers in retail channels, efficiency characteristics of the Internet market, and pricing strategies of Internet retailers. This investigation involves both theoretical and...

Privacy preservation has become an important requirement in information systems that deal with personal data. In many cases this requirement is imposed by laws that recognize the right of data owners to control whom their information is shared with and the purposes for which it can be shared....

This research examines the question: "What aspects of strategic networked information technology (IT) applications increase responses from competitors and what aspects reduce their response?" Competitive behavior is observed by the public announcement of the actions and responses resulting when...

A phenomenon resulting from the Information Age trend of networking is that the world is becoming increasingly interlinked. Because of all this networking, organizations are becoming increasingly more vulnerable targets to potential cyberterrorist attacks. An organization could pass the effects...

The purpose of this dissertation is threefold, all aimed at the prospective development of a comprehensive online travel planning system. The first objective was to develop a model of online pleasure travel planning, second to develop a typology of online travel search strategies, and third to...

In this article, we introduce a comprehensive framework supporting a privacy-aware access control mechanism, that is, a mechanism tailored to enforce access control to data containing personally identifiable information and, as such, privacy sensitive. The key component of the framework is a...