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<p class=MsoNormal>The contents of the latest issue of:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Volume 8, Issue 1, January-March 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ISSN: 1548-3673 EISSN: 1548-3681<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.igi-global.com/ijec<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock, Texas A&M International
University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER ONE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A Policy-Based Team Collaboration<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jae W. Hwang, The George Washington University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Shmuel Rotenstreich, The George Washington University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This paper presents a policy-based coordination model for
team collaboration. Team collaboration requires an agreement that utilizes a
negotiation protocol to find candidate teams and to decide on a collaboration
partner. The decision relies on policies that are rules governing team
situations in an organization. Contexts and rules allow reasoning about team
situations. The authors describe a policy-based negotiation protocol. It
introduces an ontology-based whiteboard component that uses the Semantic Web
technologies such as Web Ontology Language (OWL), Semantic Web Rule Language
(SWRL), and Semantic Query-enhanced Web Rule Language (SQWRL). The negotiation
protocol facilitates whiteboards as a computational foundation for awareness of
situations and policies, and it assists with the final decision using a measure
based on the combination of rule-based queries and functions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/article/policy-based-team-collaboration/61402
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=61402 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER TWO<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Supporting Secure Information Flow: An Engineering Approach<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Shane Bracher, SAP Research, Australia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Padmanabhan Krishnan, Bond University, Australia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The authors describe a model to provide access control for
information flow that crosses organisational boundaries. The model specifies a
distributed access control enforcement approach for workflow objects (e.g., a
document assigned to a pre-defined workflow) using software agents and data
encryption techniques. Access to restricted content within the workflow object
is based on the possession of encryption keys and role enactment. The model
relies on trusted software agents to verify and ensure the validity of the
workflow object. The authors construct a prototype and report on a case study
that demonstrates the feasibility of the proposal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/article/supporting-secure-information-flow/61403
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=61403 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER THREE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Is More Technology Better for Communication in International
Virtual Teams?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR>Cleber Marchetti Duranti, University of São
Paulo, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR>Fernando Carvalho de Almeida, University of
São Paulo, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With the advent of the collaboration tools based on ICT
(Information and Communication Technology), the distances between the team
members of a company spread around the world have shrunk, at least virtually.
Using the most complete collaboration/communication technologies for project
meetings, although beneficial at first glance, is not always the best choice
when one considers the diverse cultural aspects of the team members of
different nationalities. This article examines the adequacy of the communication
tools for project communication in line with the cultural differences by
comparing the views of American and Brazilian groups used to communicating
through ICT on a daily basis for project related work. The results show
significant differences between the perceptions and attitudes of the two groups
regarding the adequacy of the communication tools in addressing usual project
tasks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/article/more-technology-better-communication-international/61404
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=61404 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER FOUR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SME E-Cooperation: A Theoretical Team Contract Analysis
Under Hidden Information<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR>María Verónica Alderete, Universidad
Nacional del Sur, Argentina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Virtual Cooperation among SME firms can be analyzed from
different theoretical perspectives. This paper considers e-cooperation among
firms under asymmetric information. Firms cooperate jointly to produce some
output or service, and they organize in teams whose firms’
characteristics are imperfectly observed. Suppose firms can observe their
efforts or actions but they cannot observe the disutility of effort which they
can discover after the contract is signed. The objective of this paper is to
analyze virtual cooperation contracts under hidden information based on the
original papers of Holmstrom (1982) and Rasmussen (1987). Some conditions are
derived under which it is possible to implement an optimal sharing rule for a
virtual team of SME under a hidden information frame.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/article/sme-cooperation-theoretical-team-contract/61405
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link
below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=61405 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue
of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) in your institution's
library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated
"InfoSci-Journals" database: http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx.
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mission of IJeC:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The mission of the International Journal of e-Collaboration
(IJeC) is to publish papers that address the design and implementation of
e-collaboration technologies, assess the behavioral impacts of these
technologies on individuals and groups, and present theoretical considerations
on links between the use of e-collaboration technologies and behavioral
patterns. This journal emphasizes technologies that include Web-based chat
tools, Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools, e-mail, listservs,
collaborative writing tools, group decision support systems, teleconferencing
suites, workflow automation systems, and document management technologies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Coverage of IJeC:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Topics to discussed in this journal include (but are not
limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Analysis of different research methods
and their impact on the study of e-collaboration technologies in organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Collaborative writing tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Comprehensive reviews of previous
studies on e-collaboration technologies in organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Design and evaluation of asynchronous
learning networks (ALNs) in organizational setting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Design and evaluation of intelligent
e-collaboration technologies in organizational settings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Design, implementation, and assessment
of e-business solutions that include e-collaboration features<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-collaboration technologies impact on
individuals and society<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-collaboration technologies impact on
knowledge management and organizational learning<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-collaboration technologies support for
distributed process reengineering and process improvement<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-collaboration technologies support for
quality certification programs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-collaboration technologies support for
the creation of virtual teams and virtual organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• E-mail<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Listservs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Organizational and national culture as
moderating factors in the adoption and use of e-collaboration technologies in
organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Web-based asynchronous conferencing
tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>• Web-based chat tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript
submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/ijec.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock at nedkock@scriptwarp.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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