There are millions of users of Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in and other social media. Because of that access to large number of users, marketing has made extensive use of social media to get closer to the customer. Unfortunately, the supply chain has made only limited use of social media. However,...

This paper surveys and extends the use of social media technologies as part of project development and management. In particular, this paper investigates how social media technologies, such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogs and tagging, have been and can be used to facilitate project development and...

This paper introduces the concept of the "Internet of Signs". In particular, this paper brings together notions from semiotics and the "Internet of Things" to provide an alternative framework, resulting in the "Internet of Signs"; that refers to signs generated across the Internet by the broad...

In protest of the bill “Protect Intellectual Property Act,” before the United States Senate, a number of Internet companies participated in a 24 hour Internet blackout. This paper summarizes some of the events and approaches used as part of that computer-based political action that...

This paper investigates a governance structure associated with academic journals. In particular, this paper proposes models of editorial boards and editing. At its most basic level the model assumes that journal size, whether or not it is sponsored by some related group, and the discipline that...

Los Angeles, California is facing record drought conditions. As a result, there is interest in all things related to building and maintaining water capabilities. Leaks in the infrastructure can lead to costly losses of water resources. Accordingly, attention increasingly is being devoted to...

Phishers appear particularly interested in accounting and tax, with accountants and auditing firms as frequent targets because of the proximity to organizational resources. Since phishing is typically done using emails, we use text analysis to explore differences between phishing emails and...

There is a delicate balance associated with ethics and privacy in “enterprise continuous monitoring systems.” On the one hand, it can be critical to enterprises to continuously monitor the ethical behavior of different agents, and thus, facilitate enterprise risk management (with respect to...