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On a new Voyager, tackling fraud and the intellectual challenge
Comment Stafford said resourcing is another concern specific to the recession: "To ensure we maintain the Society's position within the market, we've had to scale up quickly to deliver more projects. The financial sector is... [06 Jul 2009]
Understanding the Threat of Denial-of-Service Attacks in Society Today
White Paper This paper examines Denial of Service as it relates to the Internet today. The paper is broken up into three separate chapters: the real world impacts of denial of service attacks, the technical aspects of denial of service and... [01 Jul 2009]
Exploiting Network Structure for Proactive Spam Mitigation
White Paper E-mail has become indispensable in today's networked society. However, the huge and ever-growing volume of spam has become a serious threat to this important communication medium. It not only affects e-mail recipients,... [01 Jul 2009]
Memory Management of Density-Based Spam Detector
White Paper The volume of mass unsolicited electronic mail, often known as spam, has recently increased enormously and has become a serious threat to not only the Internet but also to society. A new spam detection method which uses... [01 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Hohm wants to help you cut your gas bill
News Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, said the company has its eye on any area that can be helped by technology and in which society is spending a lot of money and not seeing the return it would like. [25 Jun 2009]
Modeling Coordination in Business-Webs
White Paper In the connected society an increasing part of the work conducted in companies involves others companies. Business-webs represent this tendency of putting together partners, suppliers, distributors, providers and... [25 Jun 2009]
Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks
White Paper With respect to security, the emerging risks of Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks will evolve into a critical danger as the availability of mobile networks becomes more and more important for the modern information society. [25 Jun 2009]
Wireless Sensor Networks for Dense Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of the Environment: A Case for Integrated Circuit, System, and Network Design
White Paper Research in environmental and ecosystems science is growing dramatically in importance as society becomes increasingly concerned about the environment and their impact on it. Researchers and resource managers must... [25 Jun 2009]
Towards Wireless Sensor Networks With Enhanced Vision Capabilities
White Paper Wireless sensor networks are expected to become an important tool for various security, surveillance and/or monitoring applications. The paper discusses selected practical aspects of development of such networks. [25 Jun 2009]
Humane Society Silicon Valley Adopts Mirapoint
White Paper Toward the end of 2003, frustration with Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV)'s existing, three-year-old Microsoft Exchange-based system was beginning to mount. They found a significant cost over time was the ongoing... [25 Jun 2009]
Vodafone - Maintaining Good Customer Service Without Playing Scrooge
White Paper The complete shutdowns of the past are not possible in a society that requires continuous services. The extended Christmas and New Year break has a significant impact on individuals and businesses. There is the... [25 Jun 2009]
A Programming Language for Web Service Development
White Paper There is now widespread acceptance of Web services and service-oriented architectures. But despite the agreement on key Web services standards there remain many challenges. Programming environments based on WSDL support go some way to... [25 Jun 2009]
A Middleware for Efficient Selection of Web Service Compositions Using Policy
White Paper Policy-based middleware for monitoring of Web service compositions and their dynamic adaptation to various runtime changes. The monitorable requirements and the adaptation actions are specified in the WS-Policy4MASC language which... [25 Jun 2009]
Fujitsu Case Study: West Midlands Co-Operative Society
White Paper West Midlands Co-operative Society was using a highly bespoke, mixed estate of Point Of Sale (POS) systems in its retail stores, some of which had been implemented in 1991. West Midlands Co-op initially undertook a... [25 Jun 2009]
The Marketing Society Scotland Event e-Mail Marketing
White Paper Creative services wanted to create a memorable email marketing campaign which would run off and online to promote the final event of the year for the Marketing Society in Scotland. Complementing the offline (printed... [25 Jun 2009]
