Copyright Protection In The Digital Era: A Malaysian Perspective

This paper seeks to explore the significance of copyright protection in Malaysia’s business environment of the digital era. Copyright law is increasingly being challenged with the intensification of internet use now. Issues of piracy and infringement of rights raise concerns surrounding the enforcement of legal measures for protection of copyrights. Hence the paper aim to understand the role and function of copyright in the digital era, and assessing the Malaysian society’s awareness of cyberspace copyright protection. This is an interpretive research carried out by conducting interviews, on 3 different groups of respondents, which are the dot.com companies, the IP professionals and government officials. The findings indicate there is a difference amongst the three groups in the understanding and awareness of Intellectual Property Rights and copyright protection; and that Malaysian government is not actively and effectively promoting awareness of the copyright issues to the public. Also it is imperative for Malaysian authorities to enhance protection of copyright in cyberspace.

The Relationship between Technology, Innovation, and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence on E-Business in Europe

This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation, and performance at the firm level. Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7,302 European enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003. It was found that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process innovations, are positively associated with turnover and employment growth. Firms that rely on Internet-enabled innovations are at least as likely to grow as firms that rely on non-Internet-enabled innovations. Finally, it was found that innovative activity is not necessarily associated with higher profitability. Possible reasons for this and implications are discussed.firm performance;innovation;information technology;profitability;e-business

Copyright Protection In The Digital Era: A Malaysian Perspective

This paper seeks to explore the significance of copyright protection in Malaysia’s business environment of the digital era. Copyright law is increasingly being challenged with the intensification of internet use now. Issues of piracy and infringement of rights raise concerns surrounding the enforcement of legal measures for protection of copyrights. Hence the paper aim to understand the role and function of copyright in the digital era, and assessing the Malaysian society’s awareness of cyberspace copyright protection. This is an interpretive research carried out by conducting interviews, on 3 different groups of respondents, which are the dot.com companies, the IP professionals and government officials. The findings indicate there is a difference amongst the three groups in the understanding and awareness of Intellectual Property Rights and copyright protection; and that Malaysian government is not actively and effectively promoting awareness of the copyright issues to the public. Also it is imperative for Malaysian authorities to enhance protection of copyright in cyberspace

Copyright Protection In The Digital Era: A Malaysian Perspective

This paper seeks to explore the significance of copyright protection in Malaysia’s business environment of the digital era. Copyright law is increasingly being challenged with the intensification of internet use now. Issues of piracy and infringement of rights raise concerns surrounding the enforcement of legal measures for protection of copyrights. Hence the paper aim to understand the role and function of copyright in the digital era, and assessing the Malaysian society’s awareness of cyberspace copyright protection. This is an interpretive research carried out by conducting interviews, on 3 different groups of respondents, which are the dot.com companies, the IP professionals and government officials. The findings indicate there is a difference amongst the three groups in the understanding and awareness of Intellectual Property Rights and copyright protection; and that Malaysian government is not actively and effectively promoting awareness of the copyright issues to the public. Also it is imperative for Malaysian authorities to enhance protection of copyright in cyberspace

Projeto de middleware para integração de aplicações em redes IOT

Orientador: Hugo Enrique Hernández-FigueroaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de ComputaçãoResumo: O Internet das Coisas (IoT) é um campo em franco desenvolvimento devido ao seu efeito em todos os aspectos da sociedade. Dentro deste contexto, a quantidade de dados e dispostivos que são integrados neste novo internet está explodindo e continuará desse jeito no futuro previsível. Um dos desafios principais para o IoT é uma integração fácil e simples entre aplicações e a infraestrutura geral: dispositivos, comunicações etc.; em outras palavras, um jeito simples de conseguir uma integração horizontal dos disposi-tivos e aplicações. Um dos pontos mais importantes de resolver para conseguir essa integração horizontal é o fato que os modelos para os sensores e atuadores que intera-gem com as aplicações não são heterogêneos, isso quer dizer que não todos os dados que os sensores proveem existem no mesmo formato, e não todos os atuadores traba-lham do mesmo jeito. Desde o ponto de vista da aplicação, esse tipo de integração é um desafio grande. Além disso, os protocolos de comunicação utilizados por muitos disposi-tivos são muitas vezes muito diferentes, o que significa que qualquer aplicação que tente integrar diferentes dispositivos, precisa segurar que pode trabalhar com múltiplos proto-colos, o que aumenta a complexidade necessária. Devido a estes desafios, é necessário um componente intermediário que que ajude na interação dos dispositivos e aplicações. O trabalho apresentado propõe uma solução para estes problemas de integração por meio de um Middleware como uma camada intermediaria que faça uma conexão en-tre aplicações e dispositivos de um jeito transparente para as aplicações, que por sua vez permita coletar dados em tempo real, assim como permitir analise de dados históri-cos: "Big Data". Para conseguir isso, propomos o uso de um modelo virtual de dispositivo que apresente uma versão mais simples para a aplicação, enquanto estende as suas capacidades, tal como a memoria e o poder de processamento. Um outro efeito desta definição de modelo virtual de dispositivo é que cria um modelo homogêneo que permite uma pesquisa simples de dispositivos dentro do Middleware, baseado em atributos es-pecíficos; por exemplo, é possível procurar todos os sensores de temperatura, indepen-dentemente de outras características. Tudo isso permite a qualquer aplicação se integrar dentro de qualquer rede IoT sem ter um conhecimento anterior dos dispositivos específi-cos que existem nesta rede, o que ajuda a promover grandemente a integraçãoAbstract: The internet of Things (IoT) is a field with increasing development due to its effect in all aspects of society. Within this context the amount of data and devices that are inte-grated into this new internet is exploding and will continue to do so in the foreseeable fu-ture. One of the main and prevalent challenges to the IoT is the ease of integration be-tween applications and the general infrastructure underneath; namely a simple way of allowing horizontal integration of devices and applications. The most important challenge to accomplish this is the fact that the models for sensors and actuators that face applica-tions are heterogenous, which means that not all sensors provide data in the same for-mat and not all actuators are operated in the same way. From an application¿s point of view this makes any kind of integration an important challenge. Another pain point for integration is the fact that communication protocols used by many devices are many times different, which means that any application hoping to integrate different type devic-es needs to make sure it can work with many protocols, which increases the complexity required. From these challenges the appearance of a middle component that facilitates the interaction of devices and applications is necessary. The work presented here pro-poses a solution to these integration problems by means of a middleware as an interme-diate layer that bridges applications and devices in a transparent way, which in turn al-lows real-time data collection and historic data analysis. To achieve this, we propose the use of a virtual device model that presents a simpler version to the application, while ex-tending its capabilities, such as memory and processing power. Another effect of this virtual device model definition is that it creates a homogenous model that allows the search for devices within the middleware based on specific attributes; for example, it is possible to search for all temperature sensors, irrespective of any other characteristics. All these allow any application to integrate into any IoT network without prior knowledge of the specific devices that exist in it, which fosters greater integrationMestradoTelecomunicações e TelemáticaMestre em Engenharia Elétric

Job execution in a distributed environment using Petri nets

Call number: LD2668 .R4 CMSC 1988 H78Master of ScienceComputing and Information Science

Infrastructure services platform for mobility architectures

Orientador: Eleri CardozoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de ComputaçãoResumo: Arquiteturas de micromobilidade vêm sendo propostas para atender ao crescente interesse por tecnologias de mobilidade IP. MPA (Mobility Plane Architecture), desenvolvida na FEEC/Unicamp, é uma solução de micromobilidade baseada em tunelamento de pacotes que emprega apenas protocolos bem estabelecidos. Quando estudou-se aplicações para melhoria de desempenho em handover e engenharia de tráfego na arquitetura MPA, verificou-se que estas aplicações necessitavam serviços comuns. Este trabalho descreve a plataforma MIS (Mobility Infrastructure Services) que fornece um conjunto de serviços para suporte ás funcionalidades básicas comuns de aplicações de gerência de rede, engenharia de tráfego e gerência de mobilidade. A plataforma proposta facilita o desenvolvimento de tais aplicações compartilhando soluções às necessidades encontradas na arquitetura de micromobilidade MPA e outras arquiteturas similares. São apresentados o projeto, implementação e testes da plataforma, juntamente com dois estudos de casos em gerência de mobilidade e engenharia de tráfego. Palavras-chave: redes IP móveis, micromobilidade, gerência de rede, engenharia de tráfegoAbstract: Micro-mobility architectures have been proposed to meet the growing interest in technologies supporting mobility in IP networks. MPA (Mobility Plane Architecture), developed at the FEEC/Unicamp, is a micro-mobility solution based on tunneling of packets that employs only well standardized protocols. When applications for supporting seamless handover and traffic engineering in MPA started to be designed, it was noticed that these applications demand a set of common services. This dissertation presents the MIS (Mobility Infrastructure Services) platform which provides a set of services that meet the common basic features demanded by applications of network management, traffic engineering and mobility management. The proposed platform facilitates the development of these applications when they are targeted to MPA and other micro-mobility architectures. This dissertation reports the design, implementation, ant test of the MIS platform, along with two case studies in mobility management and traffic engineering. Keywords: IP mobile networks, micro-mobility, network management, traffic engineeringMestradoEngenharia de ComputaçãoMestre em Engenharia Elétric