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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. CIO50 2008: Top 10 [03 Jul 2008]
The New Security Dilemma Revisited: Neomedievalism and the Limits of Hegemony
White Paper This paper argues that terrorism is merely one dimension of a wider phenomenon that is transforming the international system and domestic politics too around the world, neomedievalism. This paper argues conversely that the core problems of security... [03 Jul 2008]
Homeland Security: American and European responses to September 11th
White Paper It argues why the American approach to homeland security ought to be of interest to Europeans and discusses why and how Europe should organize its own efforts to protect civil populations against the new terror. [03 Jul 2008]
Measurement and the Software Development Process
White Paper This paper argues that software measurement and the software development process are mutually dependent. Firstly, a high-level view of the relationship between measurement and the development process is taken. [03 Jul 2008]
Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program
White Paper This paper argues that the traditional roles of FDLP libraries in selecting, acquiring, organizing, preserving, and providing access to and services for government information are more important than ever in the digital age. [03 Jul 2008]
The Economic Foundations of Military Power
White Paper In conclusion, it argues that lack of sustainability means non-state actors can only punish a state's vulnerable socio-economic targets, not erode its preeminence as the modal political unit in the foreseeable future. [03 Jul 2008]
Maintaining Privacy in RFID Enabled Environments
White Paper This paper argues that economic interest seeks to maintain an RFID tag's functionality after a purchase has been made. RFID technology will be a ubiquitous reality in every-day life in the future. On this basis it is argued that killing RFID tags... [03 Jul 2008]
Waiting for Version 2.0 is a 'Red Herring': Why VoiceXML 1.0 is Ready Now
White Paper This White Paper argues that the differences between versions 1.0 and 2.0 are incremental, (2) version 2.0 will likely not be published until the Fall of 2001 - too long for most companies to delay launching their VoiceXML strategies, and (3... [03 Jul 2008]
Would Plato Have Built a Unified Modeling Language?: Communication and Understanding in Modeling Languages
White Paper The paper argues that in a multidisciplinary environment a common understanding of the things we discuss, is needed. The topic of this paper is the relation between various modeling formalisms, each consisting of a concrete syntax, some of them... [03 Jul 2008]
A Flexible Framework for Using Positioning Technologies in Location-Based Services
White Paper The paper argues that such an architecture offers useful flexibility in particular for future location based services that may draw on multiple positioning systems. This paper describes the development of a location-based service for the web. [03 Jul 2008]
Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
White Paper The paper argues that, alongside the amply discussed, demographically-determined increase in the contribution and tax burden which is responsible for the ever widening gap between gross and disposable earnings, two other important areas of policy... [03 Jul 2008]
Closing the Capability Gap
White Paper This paper outlines the background to this problem and argues that to achieve long term success, ineffectual software development processes need to be replaced with those that meet the requirements of the Software Engineering Institute's... [03 Jul 2008]
Comparing Abstraction Refinement Algorithms
White Paper The paper argues that the generic algorithm does not limit the completeness of instances, and shows that the proposed generalization of counterexamples is necessary for completeness - thus addressing a shortcoming of more limited notions of... [03 Jul 2008]
Flow Classification by Histograms
White Paper This paper argues that using the entire distributional properties of flows can have significant benefits in terms of quality in the derived classification. In order to control and manage highly aggregated Internet traffic flows efficiently, we need... [03 Jul 2008]
Exploiting Heterogeneity in Ubiquitous Computing Environments for Robust Positioning and Localization
White Paper This paper argues that by fusing the various sources of location information that are available over time, the robustness and accuracy of the positioning process can be increased considerably. An essential prerequisite to location aware computing... [03 Jul 2008]
