Explicitly Stated Security Policies of Web Sites of Global Banks of Europe, Australia, Asia and the U.S

This paper is the latest component of a research project conducted by the authors over a three-year period. The first phase emphasized the privacy policies of global banks and other businesses engaged in E-commerce. Over 600 individualized web-sites were visited and evaluated. This, the second phase of the research project, focuses on the security policies in place for global financial institutions. The purpose of this research study is to review, compare and summarize the security policies of global banks as they are expressed on their web sites. A total of over 300 web sites of global banks were included in this phase of the study. The study was conducted during the month of June, 2005. This paper reports on the results of a total of 180 banks representing Europe (40), Australia (20), Asia (60) and the U.S. (60)

An Empirical Review of Industry Preferences in the Design of E-Commerce Web Sites

This paper discusses several theoretical factors underlying successful Web-site design based on the research literature. Factors such as navigation strategies, animation, search capability, multilingual capability, and the use of color, graphics and icons are included. After identifying the significance of these Web characteristics, the paper reports on the results of an empirical study on Web-site design characteristics based on over 400 e-commerce Web sites that included six industry classifications. While some companies utilize traditional Web-site design approaches, others relied on different factors in their design

A Case Study in Implementing Second Life in a Graduate Distance Learning E-Commerce Class

Second Life is the most popular 3-D virtual world in use worldwide. The authors describe the complete process that was employed in incorporating the use of virtual world technologies in a graduate level course on e-commerce corporate strategy. A description is given of the genre of virtual world simulations, the traditional way the course was given startup issues, course project, milestones ,the assessment process and feedback

An Evaluation of the Use of a Virtual World Experiential Case Study to Teach Information Systems Auditing Skills

The paper presents the results of student feedback on the use of an experiential case study of the site audit of a technology and data center constructed in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life. The unique aspect of this case study was that the entire audit was conducted in a virtual world environment. The results of the assessment were extremely favorable and the exercise was recommended to be utilized in future classes. The results include both quantitative as well as qualitative feedback

A Comprehensive Analysis of the H-IB and L-1 Visa Programs in the U.S. From An IT Perspective

This paper analyzes the experience of the H-IB and L-1 visa programs and their impact on information technology in the United States. The topics discussed are as follows: initial justification of the programs, the relationship of the programs to outsourcing and off-shoring, who is covered by the H-IB and L-1 visa programs, utilization of the visa programs by various constituencies, the impact of the visa programs on the prevailing wage, the arguments pro and con for the program, who is on either side of the lobbying effort, protectionist legislation regarding the visa programs, fraud within the visa programs, the alleged role of body shops and the visa programs, and the impact on homeland security as related to the visa programs

PasMoQAP: A Parallel Asynchronous Memetic Algorithm for solving the Multi-Objective Quadratic Assignment Problem

Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOPs) have attracted growing attention during the last decades. Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have been extensively used to address MOPs because are able to approximate a set of non-dominated high-quality solutions. The Multi-Objective Quadratic Assignment Problem (mQAP) is a MOP. The mQAP is a generalization of the classical QAP which has been extensively studied, and used in several real-life applications. The mQAP is defined as having as input several flows between the facilities which generate multiple cost functions that must be optimized simultaneously. In this study, we propose PasMoQAP, a parallel asynchronous memetic algorithm to solve the Multi-Objective Quadratic Assignment Problem. PasMoQAP is based on an island model that structures the population by creating sub-populations. The memetic algorithm on each island individually evolve a reduced population of solutions, and they asynchronously cooperate by sending selected solutions to the neighboring islands. The experimental results show that our approach significatively outperforms all the island-based variants of the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm NSGA-II. We show that PasMoQAP is a suitable alternative to solve the Multi-Objective Quadratic Assignment Problem.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted at Conference on Evolutionary Computation 2017 (CEC 2017

Privacy Policies on Global Banks\u27 Websites: Does Culture Matter?

Information privacy, the ability to control the information about oneself, is increasingly relevant as advancing technologies provide opportunities for ever faster and more extensive data collection. Electronic business continues to see the collection and storage of various types of customer information for use in increasingly innovative ways, resulting in enhanced marketing and services as well as concern from the customer about privacy. Online banking, in particular, is strongly impacted by customers\u27 concerns for privacy due to the sensitivity of the information it handles. Previous research has examined privacy concerns, including the impact of culture. This study is a global examination of global banks\u27 privacy policies as promulgated on their websites designed to gain insight into the communication of privacy practices throughout the world. Results indicate that there is a great deal of variation among what is disclosed on banks\u27 websites in different countries

Starting from seed

28 p.Flourishing throughout the United States is a loosely knit coalition of activist culture workers striving to counter the homogenized effects of corporate control of culture and mass consumption. “My house” epitomizes the work of this coalition within the Willamette Valley. With an “out there” and sometimes “in your face” attitude, the culture workers appearing at my house promote an ethic that demands that the arts and culture be free from control by large national and multinational corporations. The multimedia artists, zinesters, and musicians appearing at my house contribute to an environment that is sometimes chaotic, disturbing, uncomfortable, sensual, complex, loud, confrontive, but ultimately an irreverent social critique of life on earth. Gender roles, religion, familial relationships, politics, academic disciplines, the fine arts, class structure, ethnicity, generational differences, economics, and pop culture are among the many issues that are celebrated, skewered, reconstructed, and illuminated on a regular basis in the basement of my house