Trends In Information Technology Research Articles

A QFD Approach for Cloud Computing Evaluation and Selection in KMS: A Case Study

AbstractCloud computing services are a new information technology trend for business applications in knowledge management systems (KMS). The link between cloud computing services and KMS is a new concept, and methods for selecting multiple choice goals of cloud computing service provider have lacked a formal reference framework. From the perspectives of customer needs and technology requirements, selecting the right cloud computing service supplier for KMS is a key strategic consideration. This paper presents an integrated analytical hierarchy process (AHP), quality function development (QFD) and multi-choice goal programming (MCGP) method to address the cloud computing service provider selection problem in KMS for information service. To show the practicality and usefulness of the proposed method, a case study of a Taiwanese textbook company is presented. This paper shows that the proposed model is a good decision-making tool for the selection of new information technology.

Designated-Verifier Provable Data Possession in Public Cloud Storage

Cloud storage is now an important development trend in information technology. However, information security has become an important problem to impede it for commercial application, such as data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In this paper, we propose designated verifier provable data possession (DV-PDP). In public clouds, DV-PDP is a matter of crucial importance when the client cannot perform the remote data possession checking. We study the DV-PDP system security model and use ECC-based homomorphism authenticator to design DV-PDP scheme. The scheme removed expensive bilinear computing. Moreover in DV-PDP scheme, the cloud storage server is stateless and independent from verifier, which is an important secure property in PDP schemes. Through security analysis and performance analysis, our scheme is provable secure and high efficiency.

Research on e-Commerce Logistics System Informationization in Chain

E-commerce is an important driving force of the world economic development. The emergence of modern logistics in e- commerce environment, made the logistics in the development of informationization, networking, intelligent direction, The logistics industry in China started late, not modern enough, restricting the development of e-commerce logistics in China. This article research base on the domestic and international study of e-commerce logistics, analyze the characteristics and mode of e-commerce logistics, combined with the current situation and existing problems of e-commerce logistics in china, which proposed the development trend of e-commerce logistics system information technology in china is the integration of Logistics and Purchasing.

Application of "3S" Technology in Surveying and Mapping in the Glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Geographic Information System Technology, Global Positioning System Technology, Remote Sensing Technology, collectively known as 3S technology. In the information age, the technology is one of the important technologies for human changes in the Earth's sustainable development research. As the center of the content of the Earth Information Science, along with the surging trend of information technology, it has been a wide range of applications. Through the practical application of 3S technology, this paper maps on the glacier on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a simple exposition.

133 DESCRIBING THE ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE': INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE IN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS WITH LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

You have accessJournal of UrologyGeneral & Epidemiological Trends & Socioeconomics: Practice Patterns, Cost Effectiveness (I)1 Apr 2013133 DESCRIBING THE ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE': INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE IN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS WITH LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS Mya Levy, Lorna Kwan, and Christopher Saigal Mya LevyMya Levy Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author , Lorna KwanLorna Kwan Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author , and Christopher SaigalChristopher Saigal Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2013.02.1512AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Men with prostate cancer face a complex treatment choice. A plethora of resources are available to help them over the internet. Innovative approaches to improving the ability of these men to make good decisions, including desktop and smart phone applications, as well as emerging social media tools are proliferating. However, poor access to information technology may present barriers to accessing these applications for men with low socioeconomic status (SES) who have prostate cancer. Understanding this population's current technology usage will provide key insight into potential barriers as well as possible facilitators to these emerging innovations. The specific aim of this study was to characterize current technology usage amongst a low SES, urban male population of individuals diagnosed with prostate cancer. METHODS We surveyed men enrolled in California's IMPACT program, which provides support to underserved men with prostate cancer. Enrollees were 300% below the Federal poverty line. A telephone survey instrument was used to collect data on information technology use. Specific items inquired about were comfort with information technology as well as preferred or usual location of use. Chi-square analysis was conducted to look for demographic associations with technology usage among this population. RESULTS 1,212 men were enrolled in IMPACT from 2006-2012. Of those, 1,140 completed the survey instrument. 36% had access to the internet, 26% were comfortable browsing the internet, 21% used email. In comparison, 85% of all US adults age 50-64 report using the internet. Of subjects who accessed the internet, 81% did so at home, 12% did so at a friend or family members's home, and 7% did so at the library. The percentage of men that used the internet increased from 34% in 2006 to 47% in 2012. 20% of men felt comfortable browsing in 2006, compared with 35% in 2012. 17% used email in 2006, and 35% in 2012. Individuals who preferred to speak Spanish were less likely to use the internet (p<0.0001). Those who didn't use the internet were older, 60.8 vs. 58.8 years (p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Information technology usage in prostate cancer patients with low SES was below national averages, but did increase over the study period. Implementation of technology-based health delivery innovations geared toward this population is not futile, given baseline information technology usage and trends over time. Further characterization of facilitators which increase comfort with internet use and culturally specific barriers to internet use are warranted. © 2013 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 189Issue 4SApril 2013Page: e54 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2013 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Mya Levy Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author Lorna Kwan Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author Christopher Saigal Los Angeles, CA More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

Invited Article: The Future of CRM is UX

Abstract Background: This paper connects several sides of the web and mobile usages in business. The idea is to utilize Customer Relations Management (CRM) as the vehicle to establish connection from Web one and Web two into Web three. Objectives: This paper has the main purpose combine efforts in developing business strategies into general path of future Web development. Methods/Approach: Using the extensive literature, business cases and software trends in the area, the paper is focused on predicting the future in the area of the business trends in Information Technology (IT). Results: After discussion of the development using selected milestones: CRM is supported by the Social Networks (SN) and is enabled by Cloud Computing (CC), we were able to achieve the predictions. Conclusions: The final conclusion is in the convergence of the business efforts and SN methods on the new paradigm called the User eXperience (UX).

Relevancy - Admissibility of Documents

The literature encircling relevancy and admissibility of documents in judicial proceedings the world over has witnessed a plethora of perspectives established and dependent on domestic statutory provisions, as well as requisite judicial pronouncements and/or interpretations bothering on the across-the-board subject of documentary evidence. Interestingly, the ability of various domestic Laws of evidence to accommodate the new trends in modern information and communication technology to an extent that has modified the meaning attached to documents, to incorporate any device by means of which information is recorded, stored or retrievable, remains a welcome development. Electronic communication now flourishes as the prevalent and most desirable form of communication in the sphere of business and social interaction, especially as it is permanent, nearly indestructible and easily transferable. Yet, there is this air of informality which is publicly associated with electronic data unlike its hard copy counterparts.The advantages of the various progressions in the aforesaid technology had aroused varied deliberations and judicial precariousness in Nigeria up until the enactment of the new Evidence Act in 2011 which is yielding its statutory powers towards ameliorating some troubles encountered in Nigerian Courts via admissibility of electronically generated evidence. A great deal has been stated in Nigerian law of evidence concerning the relevance of private and public documents, primary and secondary documentary evidence as well as the issues of improperly obtained evidence. Those are dealt with in this paper.

Business Processes as Social Entities – A Use Case Driven Approach

Social media represents one of the most rapidly growing trends in information technology. Up to now, however, this trend has been mainly driven by private users, although in organizational context social media technologies would provide a multiplicity of benefits. This paper shows – based on a state of the art analysis – application potentials of social media in the field of business process management (BPM). The focus lies on the interplay between the subjects and objects of BPM and social media. The goal is to turn business processes into social entities with the capability to communicate and to take on identity. Based on a holistic idea finding process, several potential use cases are arranged within the phases of the BPM cycle. The results show that unexploited potentials exist particularly in the phases of “Business Process Design” and “Business Process Controlling”.

Editor's Message to Special Issue on Mobile Communication and Intelligent Transport Systems for Creating a New Trend in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Society

Editor's Message to Special Issue on Mobile Communication and Intelligent Transport Systems for Creating a New Trend in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Society

RESPONSIBILITY OF SCHOOLS’ LEADERS IN TACKLING THE E-LEARNING BARRIERS IN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION HIGHER INSTITUTIONS

This conceptual reviewed paper looks critically at the trend of information and communication technology especially now that the implementation of e-learning is gaining more relevance in Nigerian tertiary institutions. It discusses the level of preparedness in terms of the required skills by Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) teachers, availability of infrastructures and other constraints in using the ICTs for effective teaching and learning. Beside, leadership strategies ranging from school administration, executive leaders and policy makers roles were also discussed as a vital component in line with the outlined barrier to TVE teacher preparedness to e-learning. Specifically, the study sought to answer four among the most critical questions that need to be addressed for effective implementation of e-learning in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The paper concluded by suggesting strategies based on the four questions stated in this study. Amongst are urgent step needs be taken by school and executive administrators and policy makers in the training of TVE teachers in the relevant ICTs areas through in-service training and seminars/workshops.

JoSnow linked to PMC

Recent advances in information technology (IT) have drastically changed our life style. IT is also changing the features of stroke management. The review article by Dr. Heo and his colleagues addresses this important and interesting issue. IT and recent trends in stroke management have a number of things in common. For example, IT is characterized by its enormous speed, while early and speedy treatment is an essential component of stroke management. In addition, IT can spread information to a large number of people without much cost, while stroke education through the spread of information to the general population is important in stroke prevention. This paper nicely describes the utility of IT in various areas of stroke management, including education, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. In the near future, IT may become an essential tool not only for our daily life but also in the management of stroke. I also read with interest the article on the epidemiology of stroke in India written by Dr. Pandian and his colleagues. India is a huge country that contains a variety of ethnic groups that use heterogeneous languages. The urban-rural differences are also significant. Therefore, it is difficult to understand the stroke problem as a whole in this country. Nevertheless, this article nicely summarizes diverse aspects of stroke issues, including the epidemiology, stroke subtypes, rehabilitation, and governmental efforts to tackle this problem. Despite the enormous burden of stroke in Asia, information on this region has been scarcely reported in the literature. One of the missions of the Journal of Stroke (JOS) is to present Asian data more actively, thus ultimately decreasing the stroke burden in this region; this article certainly contributes to this endeavor. Finally, I am pleased to inform you that the JOS is now linked to PubMed Central (PMC), which will result in our papers being readily available worldwide. I hope more people can enjoy reading JOS and gladly submit their work to us.

成果导向式学习——信息管理专业课程规划新思维&lt;br&gt; Outcome-Based Education—A Novel Thinking on Course Design for Information Management Discipline

多年来实务界对大学信息管理系毕业生之专业能力与企业所需有相当落差，造成企业聘用时无法鉴别毕业生专业能力是否与职缺相符；录用后仍须投资相当训练时间与成本，使新进人员具备与职务所需之专业能力。何以大学信息管理系教育成果与实务界期待造成落差？本研究目的在于探讨台湾目前大学信息管理系之课程规划，是否能与政府促进就业计划相衔接，是否能满足就业市场职缺所需，是否能与信息技术管理趋势接轨等三大面向。同时衡量与“成果式学习”教育理念——确保学生成果透过多样评鉴验证学习活动与教育目标相扣合——之差距，提出具体建议，期许大学信息管理系为提升学生核心竞争力，降低企业再训练成本，发挥大学特色，形成学生、大学，与企业三赢局面，进而减轻因企业全球化策略所致，对台湾信息人才竞争之冲击。 Information Management (IM) plays a key role to success in today’s organization business. However, there has been a considerable skillsets gap for years between the practitioners’ expectation and the students graduated from the IM department of universities. The employers are having issues in identifying the skillsets of these graduated students can meet the job requirements or not, and invest significant costs and time in training for the job afterwards. This paper proposes that the course map of IM discipline dynamically responds to the needs for the job market and follows the modern information technology trend by implementing the Outcome-based Education. Consequently, it will be a triple-win situation: 1) helps the graduated students to find better jobs; 2) the IM departments of universities are esteemed for the success of education; and 3) the employers are able to deploy the new workforce on the job posts sooner. Such a situation will also alleviate the competition of human resource for Taiwan enterprises under globalization environment.

ND++ – an extended IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol for enhanced stateless address autoconfiguration in MANETs

SUMMARYRecent trends in information and communications technologies are oriented toward the design of the Future Internet and the Internet of Things. While IPv6‐based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are emerging as an important building block of these new technologies, it is necessary to come up with adequate self‐configuration capabilities allowing for seamless and automated configuration of addresses in mobile environment. The mechanisms of stateless address autoconfiguration proposed for IPv6 networks are supposed to automate some configuration steps; however, they would need to be aligned with the requirements imposed by MANET networks. Therefore, in this article, we present Neighbor Discovery ++ – an extended IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol for enhanced duplicate address detection in MANETs, which provides increased coverage of network nodes, while minimizing protocol overhead. It exploits efficient flooding mechanism on the basis of the multipoint relay concept, which makes it an interesting approach also for large‐scale networks. Trials performed on the designated real‐world testbed platform indicate that ND++ is a promising solution to support efficient address autoconfiguration in MANETs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Issues and Emerging Trends in Identity Management

In todays digital age as companies are moving more and more amounts of important, sensitive data, information, applications, and infrastructure online there is a need toestablish and maintain credentials on all the connected and disconnected systems, and grant rights or access to users. The main goal is to manage physical and logical resources and relate them to owners. Identity Management is emerging as a significant technology to help in handling the complexity of todays Business companies, dealing with security in thevirtualized environment, strong authentication and dealing with threats from Insiders. This paper attempts to provide direction toward some of the issues, Challenges and Trends in Identity Management. Emerging Trends in Information technology involves identity audit, automated compliance, Role lifecycle management, authorization, Information centric identity, E-SSO and strong authentication, Open ID, Infocards, CardSpace, Governance, Identity management as a service, Risk management, and Compliance Modularity.

Web 2.0 Broker: A standards-based service for spatio-temporal search of crowd-sourced information

Recent trends in information technology show that citizens are increasingly willing to share information using tools provided by Web 2.0 and crowdsourcing platforms to describe events that may have social impact. This is fuelled by the proliferation of location-aware devices such as smartphones and tablets; users are able to share information in these crowdsourcing platforms directly from the field at real time, augmenting this information with its location. Afterwards, to retrieve this information, users must deal with the different search mechanisms provided by the each Web 2.0 services. This paper explores how to improve on the interoperability of Web 2.0 services by providing a single service as a unique entry to search over several Web 2.0 services in a single step. This paper demonstrates the usefulness of the Open Geospatial Consortium's OpenSearch Geospatial and Time specification as an interface for a service that searches and retrieves information available in crowdsourcing services. We present how this information is valuable in complementing other authoritative information by providing an alternative, contemporary source. We demonstrate the intrinsic interoperability of the system showing the integration of crowd-sourced data in different scenarios.

Information Security Awareness within Business Environment: An IT Review

Abstract -The beauty of Information Technology (IT) is with its multifunction nature; it is a support system, a networking system, a storage system, as well as an information facilitator. Aided with their broad line of services, an IT system aims to support or even drive organizations towards desired paths. Trends of IT and information security awareness (ISA) in society today, particularly within the business environment is quite interesting phenomenon. The overviews of the role of IT in the modern world as well as the perception towards ISA are initially introduced. A series of scope are outlined, and also further examination on matter of IT and ISA in the business environment - emphasis on revolution of business with ISA, security threats such as identity thefts, hacking and web harassments, and the different mode of protections that are applied in different business environments. Unfortunately, the advancement of IT is not followed by the awareness of its security issues properly, especially in the context of the business settings and functions. This research and review is expected to influence the awareness of information security issues in business processes.

A Review of ISA Impacts within Business Environment

Within the era of modern technology where we hardly avoid IT in our daily life, people are becoming increasingly aware of the IT benefits, especially as these benefits are mostly in tune with the fast-paced nature of the society today. The beauty of Information Technology (IT) is with its multifunction nature; it is a support system, a networking system, a storage system, as well as an information facilitator, IT system aims to support or even drive organizations towards desired paths, in supporting IT performance, information security awareness over IT is extremely needed. Trends of IT and information security awareness (ISA) in society today, particularly within the business environment is quite interesting phenomenon. The overviews of the role of IT in the modern world as well as the perception towards ISA are initially introduced. A further examination on matter of IT and ISA in the business environment – emphasis on revolution of business with ISA, security threats such as identity thefts, hacking and web harassments, and the different mode of protections that are applied in different business environments. This review is expected to identified the influence of information security awareness issues impacts within business environment processes.

SU-E-T-220: A Web-Based Research System for Outcome Analysis of NSCLC Treated with SABR.

To establish a web-based software system, an electronic patient record (ePR), to consolidate and evaluate clinical data, dose delivery and treatment outcomes for non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with hypofractionated stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) across institutions. The new trend of information technology in medical imaging and informatics is towards the development of an electronic patient record (ePR), in which all health and medical information of each patient are organized under the patient's name and identification number. The system has been developed using the Wamp Server, a package of Apache web server, PHP and MySQL database to facilitate patient data input and management, and evaluation of patient clinical data and dose delivery across institution using web technology. The data of each patient to be recorded in the database include pre-treatment clinical data, treatment plan in DICOM-RT format and follow-up data. The pre-treatment data include demographics data, pathology condition, cancer staging. The follow-up data include the survival status, local tumor control condition and toxicity. The clinical data are entered to the system through the web page while the treatment plan data will be imported from the treatment planning system (TPS) using DICOM communication. The collection of data of NSCLC patients treated with SABR stored in the ePR is always accessible and can be retrieved and processed in the future. The core of the ePR is the database which integrates all patient data in one location. The web-based DICOM RT ePR system utilizes the current state-of-the-art medical informatics approach to investigate the combination and consolidation of patient data and outcome results. This will allow clinically-driven data mining for dose distributions and resulting treatment outcome in connection with biological modeling of the treatment parameters to quantify the efficacy of SABR in treating NSCLC patients.

‘Everything We Know Informs Everything We Do’: A Vision for Historic Environment Sector Knowledge and Information Management

This study examines data, information, and knowledge management in the historic environment sector in the context of broader trends in information technology, and information and knowledge management approaches. The opportunity provided by changes in technology over the career of the author are reviewed, with a caution against focusing purely on technology as a solution. A shift is proposed towards a greater emphasis on socially constructed knowledge of good practice, captured by social media or Web 2·0 systems in online communities of practice. This should complement the recorded data and information about the past that has been the traditional focus of data and information management in the sector.

A practical use of learning system using user preference in ubiquitous computing environment

U-learning, or ubiquitous learning, has become the state-of-the-art educational trend in information technology. In ubiquitous learning environment, students now have the ability to learn anytime and anywhere. In many computer-assisted learning systems (such as e-learning, m-learning and u-learning), students must follow the lesson plans and learning environments established by the teacher. To overcome this limitation and increase effective learning, new techniques that reflect alternative learning styles, such as self-directed learning, adaptive learning and personalized learning, have been developed. These techniques have been researched extensively, but they still do not consistently reflect the specific needs of all students. In this article, a u-learning system is proposed that considers the learning level and preferences of each learner. The system provides information about the student's preferred learning section and difficulty level of learning contents and indicates the areas that may require additional study (based on the educational history of the student), thus allowing students to set up an optimized learning environment. A topic preference vector was applied to calculate the student's preferences, and the learning section and the difficulty level were used as each vector value in the system. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed system, an English-learning system was implemented using content from the reading comprehension section of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). An experiment was conducted using a control group and a test group. The results demonstrated that the system proposed in this paper is useful for improving learning efficiency.