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Arguing satisfaction of security requirements
This chapter presents a process for security requirements elicitation and analysis,
based around the construction of a satisfaction argument for the security of a
system. The process starts with the enumeration of security goals based on assets
in the system, then uses these goals to derive security requirements in the form of
constraints. Next, a satisfaction argument for the system is constructed, using a
problem-centered representation, a formal proof to analyze properties that can be
demonstrated, and structured informal argumentation of the assumptions exposed
during construction of the argument. Constructing the satisfaction argument can
expose missing and inconsistent assumptions about system context and behavior
that effect security, and a completed argument provides assurances that a system
can respect its security requirements
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The evaluation and the effectiveness of project management in transformational e-government projects
This paper forms part of an ongoing research of a PhD degree to describe, critically evaluate and examine the underlying barriers and challenges in large e-Government initiatives. The paper invites technology to be incorporated and inculcated into the art and science of project management, and be part of a passable solution as opposed to being distinct and separate from it. The tools used have to increase the novelty (art and science) of project management through human interaction, and empower the project manager and aiding his capacity in delivering the expected outcomes. Due to inadequate implementations of project management procedures and processes, many large information technology systems (ITS) projects failed. This becomes a characteristic and encompasses e-Government project initiatives, due to ambitious program changes, major innovations, large transformations, enterprise wide solutions, collaboration across organizations’ governments and private sectors, and the implementation of unprecedented (or ambitious) solutions. This research paper critically analyses and summarises a list of e-Government challenges and barriers arising from an e-Government survey administered on behalf of the World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA) which represents the national technology associations in 70 countries. It compares these challenges to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), which is the North American standard in project management methodology. In addition, it highlights the weaknesses in PMBOK to address these challenges and offers a technology-enabled enhancement to the Project Initiation Phase, the area identified as being particularly weak and inadequate in addressing e-Government initiatives and requirements
Review of Literature and Curricula in Smart Supply Chain & Transportation
This study provides a review of existing smart supply chain management (SCM) literature and current course offerings in order to identify unexplored implications of smart SCM. Specifically, the study focuses on curricula within the state of California to derive potential opportunities for the relevant practitioners in the Bay Area. In addition, the study further extends curriculum review to other well-recognized SCM programs around the U.S. By exploring current relevant course offerings from different academic institutions for higher education (i.e., universities), this research aims to deliver general ideas useful to knowledge practitioners in fields concerning SCM. Finally, the research illustrates a conceptual framework aimed at fostering familiarity with the necessary research topics for the evolving smart SCM
International HRM: National Business Systems, Organizational Politics and the International Division of Labour in MNCs
In this paper we address a key issue that dominates internal ional HRM research, namely the global-local question. The question concerns how multinationals can or should balance the pressures to develop globally standardized policies with the pressures to be responsive lo the peculiarities of the local context In our view, three important conceptual weaknesses have restricted research progress in this held; the inadequate conceptualization of national effects, which results in culture being used as an unsatisfactory \u27catch all\u27 for national differences; the lack of attention to the influence of internal organizational polities; and the absence of focus on the internal division of labour within MNCs. We discuss the ways in which these weaknesses can be addressed and the implications of these alternative concepts
La necesaria recuperaciĂłn del diálogo social para abordar la regulaciĂłn del impacto de las nuevas tecnologĂas en los derechos de los trabajadores
The European Union has urged the European Commission, Member States and social
partners to establish rules for an economic sphere which is either deregulated or has
significant gaps in regulation: digitilisation and the platform economy. The European
Parliament has made a series of recommendations which establish the social guidelines
necessary to regulate labour relations on collaborative platforms. Accepting changes in
the fundamental nature of labour law requires the overcoming of untouchable axioms
which survive in contemporary economic thought, such as the one which links rigid
labour regulations to the delay in recovery from the economic crisis, to rising
unemployment, and more recently, to a lack of adaptation of labour regulation to
technological changes. Once again, changes in labour legislation are required in order
to adapt correctly to the digital economy, although it is emphacised that this “new
regulation” cannot be made without the social partners.La Unión Europea ha instado a la Comisión Europea, a los Estados miembros y a los
interlocutores a normar un ámbito económico desregularizado o con lagunas en la
regulaciĂłn: la digitalizaciĂłn y la economĂa de plataforma. El Parlamento Europeo ha
dirigido una serie de recomendaciones con las directrices sociales necesarias para que se
regulen las relaciones laborales en las plataformas colaborativas. Es preciso superar
intocables axiomas que perviven en el pensamiento económico contemporáneo, como el
que vincula la rigidez de la normativa laboral al retraso en la salida de la crisis
económica y al incremento del número de desempleados, a lo que ahora quiere añadirse
la falta de adaptaciĂłn de la regulaciĂłn laboral a las nuevas tecnologĂas. De nuevo se
exigen cambios legislativos en el orden laboral para lograr una correcta adaptaciĂłn a la
economĂa digital; si bien, es preciso subrayar que esta “nueva regulaciĂłn” no podrá
hacerse al margen de los interlocutores sociales
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