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Evolving IT management frameworks towards a sustainable future
Information Technology (IT) Management Frameworks are a fundamental tool used by IT professionals to efficiently manage IT resources and are globally applied to IT service delivery and management. Sustainability is a recent notion that describes the need for economic, environmental and social development with- out compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs; this applies to businesses as well as society in general. Unfortunately, IT Management Frameworks do not take sustainability into account. To the practitioner this paper demonstrates sustainability integration thereby allowing CIOs and IT managers to improve the sustainability of their organisation. To the researcher this paper argues that sustainability concerns need to be provided to IT Management through its integration into the mainstream of IT Management Frameworks. This is demonstrated through the high-level integration of sustainability in Six Sigma, C OBI T, ITIL and PRINCE2
Electronic chemical potentials of porous metal-organic frameworks
The binding energy of an electron in a material is a fundamental
characteristic, which determines a wealth of important chemical and physical
properties. For metal-organic frameworks this quantity is hitherto unknown. We
present a general approach for determining the vacuum level of porous
metal-organic frameworks and apply it to obtain the first ionisation energy for
six prototype materials including zeolitic, covalent and ionic frameworks. This
approach for valence band alignment can explain observations relating to the
electrochemical, optical and electrical properties of porous frameworks
Application of Ethical Frameworks to IT Offshoring
The global outsourcing of information technology (IT) activities, has received increased attention recently, given the controversy it generates. Differing views on IT offshoring prevail. One view claims IT offshoring steals jobs away from the United States economy, while another view maintains IT offshoring creates jobs and improves the overall Unites States economy. Despite the controversy created by IT offshoring, the ethical issues related to IT offshoring have received little attention. In this paper three major normative theories of business ethics: stockholder, stakeholder, and social contract theory will be introduced to examine the impact of IT offshoring from an ethical perspective. The application of these theories to a specific example of IT offshoring is presented in detail. This research represents an early attempt to examine the ethics of IT offshoring and could provide early insights into the IT offshoring decision
Universally Rigid Framework Attachments
A framework is a graph and a map from its vertices to R^d. A framework is
called universally rigid if there is no other framework with the same graph and
edge lengths in R^d' for any d'. A framework attachment is a framework
constructed by joining two frameworks on a subset of vertices. We consider an
attachment of two universally rigid frameworks that are in general position in
R^d. We show that the number of vertices in the overlap between the two
frameworks must be sufficiently large in order for the attachment to remain
universally rigid. Furthermore, it is shown that universal rigidity of such
frameworks is preserved even after removing certain edges. Given positive
semidefinite stress matrices for each of the two initial frameworks, we
analytically derive the PSD stress matrices for the combined and edge-reduced
frameworks. One of the benefits of the results is that they provide a general
method for generating new universally rigid frameworks.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
An Investigation of the Negotiation Domain for Electronic Commerce Information Systems
To support fully automatic business cycles, information systems for electronic commerce need to be able to conduct negotiation automatically. In recent years, a number of general frameworks for automated negotiation have been proposed. Application of such frameworks in a specific negotiation situation entails selecting the proper framework and adapting it to this situation. This selection and adaptation process is driven by the specific characteristics of the situation. This paper presents a systematic investigation of there characteristics and surveys a number of frameworks for automated negotiation
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