Abstract This paper explores data warehousing in terms of data mining with intelligent agents such as bots and ants and clarifies the ethical dilemma posed by the use of such data.
From the Paper " Data warehousing is no longer simply a storage system for data. Today's data warehousing involves innovative technological software, automated agents known as intelligent agents robots-or bots and ants. These agents ..."
Tags: data warehousing, data mining, intelligent agents, robots, bots, ants, personalization, ethics
Abstract This paper discusses the growth of e-commerce and explores the different applications that were developed for use in e-commerce. One of these, XML, is explored in detail, including its development, its advantages over HTML for e-commerce, and the companies that first used it. The paper discusses the advantages of e-commerce and conversely, e-commerce's failures.
Contents: Early Application Developments for E-commerce; XML; Primary & Early Users of Leading Edge Applications; Development of Products by Businesses and Industries; Leaders and Followers; Applying Technologies to Business Problems and Solutions; Successes and Failures; The Future; Vision
From the Paper "Among the more recent application developments for the web is the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification. (?The XML FAQ,? Jan 2002). The flexibility and extensibility of XML are very significant features since at present further development of the Web is held back by important constraints due to dependence on a single inflexible document type-HTML (the Hypertext Mark-up Language most frequently used on the web) which is already stretched to the limit with over-use and has severe limitations for data transfer and storage."
Abstract This paper examines the role of Iranian oil wealth and politics in the development of the Iranian nation. The paper presents bot the mercantilist and economic liberal perspectives of international political economy.
From the Paper "Nikki Keddie described post-revolutionary Iran as a country in which a theocracy based upon Shi'i Islamic thought has come into being in part as a reaction against secularization and in part as a response to the Pahlavi regime. Since Shah Reza Mohammad Pahlavi was overthrown by forces inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran has undertaken a program of nation-building, regional activism and economic development that emerges almost exclusively from Islam."
Abstract The paper examines the topic of criminally motivating hacking referred to by computer professionals as "cracking." The paper examines the current methods used, the degree of sophistication of malicious programs and the rising use of rootkit "bots" that literally hijack computers to do the cracker's bidding and are almost impossible to detect.
From the Paper "The days of the prodigal teenager computer- geek breaking into a presumably "well" protected network system as a prank has gone the way of the 5- inch floppy disk. Boasting rights in a virtual subterranean world of peers generally were behind such intrusions. Few if any "hackers" as they called themselves thought of the consequences of their acts: the disrupted services and systems downtime they may inadvertently have triggered. Most were simply immature, a few malicious. To be called a hacker back then was to be paid a compliment. It meant simply that you were a very good programmer (Palmer 2001, p. 769). It is the "black hat" variant of hacking--the criminal exploitation of one's programming skills that has become a worldwide menace and earned its practitioners the derogatory label "cracker.""
