The book presents an avant-garde and interdisciplinary technical-entrepreneurial approach for ensuring sustainability by bringing a Systems Engineering (SE) novel mechanism applied to telemedicine context making use of space technologies into the light. The distinctive theory from herein...

This dissertation studies several security issues in data networks, to reveal the vulnerability, to propose defense mechanisms, to provide better tools for analysis, and to develop good security architecture. This dissertation consists of the following three parts: (1) Internet-like topologies...

This paper discusses a social process model for design activity in organizational IS development projects,based upon the findings of an interpretive, participant observation study of information system designprocesses in a mid-sized UK telecommunications equipment manufacturing company. The form...

This study was conducted on the premise that if quality business information is provided to business enterprises, socio-economic transformation could be achieved. The study emanated from the documented problem where business enterprises in northern Uganda were found to depend on "word of mouth"...