Richardson, Ita; Gresse von Wangenheim, Christiane(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
Small software organizations independently financed and organized companies with fewer than 50 employees are fundamental to many national economies' growth. In the US, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, ...
This paper reports the findings of a detailed study of Web-based systems design (WBSD) practices in Ireland based on data collected over a 3-year period (2002–2005), the objectives of which were to (1) contribute towards ...
Kiniry, Joseph R.; Cochran, Dermot; Tierney, Patrick E.(Association for Computing Machinery, 2007)
Activist computer scientists, including some of the authors
of this paper, have been working against the adoption
by governments of commercial, proprietary, insecure,
poorly designed and implemented voting systems
the ...
Ambient intelligence involves synthesising data from a range of sources in order to exhibit meaningful adaptive behaviour without explicit user direction, driven by inputs from largely independent devices and data sources. ...
Aguanno, Mauro V.; Lakestani, Fereydoun; Whelan, Maurice P.; Connelly, Michael J.(Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2007)
We describe a heterodyne interferometry system based on a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor digital signal processor (CMOS-DSP) camera that is utilized for full-field optical phase measurement using a carrier-based ...
Birdthistle, Naomi(Cork Institute of Technology., 2007)
Many family businesses begin with an innovative idea. In order to remain viable in an environment characterised by uncertainty and change, organisations and individuals alike depend upon an ability to learn. This paper ...
In the context of burgeoning research on multinational corporations (MNCs) this paper addresses the issue of the representativeness of databases of MNCs in Ireland. It identifies some important deficiencies in existing ...
Ireland is one of the world's most foreign direct investment (FDI) dependent economies. This research project addresses patterns of influence and control in multinational companies (MNCs) in Ireland, with particular emphasis ...