norms in white papers
Better Bounds for Online Load Balancing on Unrelated Machines
White Paper The paper also address the question whether randomization helps on-line load balancing under Lp norms on unrelated machines; this is a challenging question which is open for more than a decade even for the L2 norm. [10 Jul 2008]
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
White Paper The model also allows to identify settings that are conducive to multiple social norms of behavior, and those where disclosing one's generosity may backfire. The paper builds a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual... [03 Jul 2008]
Unlawful Belligerency and Its Implications Under International Law
White Paper Judging from the tragic events of September 11 and al Qaeda's subsequent pronouncements, they intend to continue a policy of purposefully targeting civilian populations, and do not feel bound in the slightest by jus in bello norms. [10 Apr 2008]
Privileged User Monitoring and Audit (PUMA)
White Paper To achieve the most effective and least costly solution, organizations need a risk-based approach designed for privileges within the context of the user's roles, responsibilities, processing norms, and allowable activities. [11 Mar 2008]
IT Compliance Benchmark Report, 2006
White Paper The purpose of the benchmark survey, which was conducted by SecurityCompliance.com from December 2005 through March 2006, was to establish industry norms for compliance-related activities based on the results of real-world regulatory audits. [12 Dec 2007]
Southwest Airlines Flies High With Real-Time Flight Data
White Paper By shaking up the rules of flying and improving upon inefficient industry norms, Southwest has quickly grown to the fourth-largest domestic carrier. In the airline industry, Southwest Airlines is considered a true maverick. [09 Jun 2007]
Managerial Use and Emerging Norms: Effects of Activity Patterns on Software Design and Deployment
White Paper Software use in many organizations has spread vertically. This paper presents evidence that applications that are widely used in organizations have at least three distinct patterns of use: one for individual contributors, one for managers, and one... [11 May 2007]
Achieving Measurable ROI for IT: There Must Be a Better Way
White Paper But where many IT projects fall down is in not putting their business case in the context of their own industry norms and their strategic business objectives. Developing a strong business case and using the right measurements is difficult enough... [13 Apr 2007]
Exchange 2007 Message Classifications (Part 1)
White Paper This kind of feature helps organizations maintain e-mail policies as well as regulatory norms. Exchange Server 2007 has a new feature called Message Classification where a message can be classified by the user or Administrator. [18 Feb 2007]
NIOSH Provides Occupational Health Data to State Agencies With SAS to Augment Research
White Paper Known as National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), the reporting system is a data storage and interactive data-retrieval system developed and maintained by NIOSH. State agencies in charge of monitoring the well-being of workers... [26 Dec 2006]
Implications of Cultural Variety for IT Codes of Ethics
White Paper In making decisions, what cultural, social and ethical norms should apply - those of the professionals’ home culture or those of the culture in which they are working, and indeed, are these two choices necessarily different? [16 Nov 2006]
A Survey of Spreadsheet Users
White Paper Nevertheless, researchers, auditors, and consultants frequently express the concern that spreadsheet use defies the norms of discipline that can be found in other business activities. Spreadsheets are common in the world of business. [20 Sep 2006]
Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use
White Paper As is typical with technologies that alter patterns of social life, the mobile phone has been subjected to an onslaught of criticism for the ways in which it disrupts existing norms of propriety and social boundaries. [21 Feb 2006]
The Common Criteria and Other IT Security Requirements for Government Agencies
White Paper As physical electronic security moves toward convergence with the IT sector or existing systems are redefined as "information systems," such systems or applications will be required to comply with the standards and norms that govern IT systems in... [30 Aug 2005]
The Role of Parliamentary Legislators in Participatory E-government
White Paper But in systems where legislatures and executives are fused rather than separated, institutional norms and constraints affect the ability of legislators in particular to freely use these technologies to their full potential. [30 Aug 2005]
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