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Evolution Analysis Of Iterative Lmmse-App Detection For Coded Linear System With Cyclic Prefixes, Xiaojun Yuan, Qinghua Guo, Li Ping Jan 2007

Evolution Analysis Of Iterative Lmmse-App Detection For Coded Linear System With Cyclic Prefixes, Xiaojun Yuan, Qinghua Guo, Li Ping

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

This paper is concerned with the iterative detection principles for coded linear systems with cyclic prefixes. We derive a matrix-form low-cost fast Fourier transform (FFT) based iterative LMMSE-APP detector and propose an evolution technique for the performance evaluation of the proposed detector. Numerical results show a good match between simulation and evolution prediction. ©2007 IEEE.

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Contact Element Method With Two Relative Coordinates And Its Application To Prediction Of Strip Profile Of A Sendzimir Mill, Hai-Liang Yu, Xiang-Hua Liu, Gyoo-Taek Lee Jan 2007

Contact Element Method With Two Relative Coordinates And Its Application To Prediction Of Strip Profile Of A Sendzimir Mill, Hai-Liang Yu, Xiang-Hua Liu, Gyoo-Taek Lee

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

A new numerical method, Contact Element Method with Two Relative Coordinates, has been developed. The main features of this method are that element meshing depends on the contact length between rolls or between the work roll and the strip, and that each element has two relative coordinates based on two separate contact objects. With this method, a program code “Setup Models for Sendzimir Mill” (SM4SM) has been developed for prediction of the strip profile of a 20-high Sendzimir mill with double AS-U-Roll systems. The strip profiles are predicted under various rolling conditions, such as the positions of AS-U racks, the …

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An Evaluation Of The Usefulness Of Cash Flow Ratios To Predict Financial Distress, Leonie Jooste Jan 2007

An Evaluation Of The Usefulness Of Cash Flow Ratios To Predict Financial Distress, Leonie Jooste

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Purpose: With the introduction of the cash flow statement it became an integral part of financial reporting. A need arose to develop ratios for the effective evaluation of cash flow information. This article investigates cash flow ratios suggested by various researchers and suggests a list of ratios with the potential to predict financial failure. Design: The cash flow ratios suggested by researchers, from as early as 1966, are investigated and eight cash flow ratios selected for inclusion in an analysis to predict financial failure. Ten failed entities are selected for a cash flow evaluation by means of the selected ratios …

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Discretionary Expenditure And Tourism Consumption: Insights From A Choice Experiment, G. I. Crouch, H. Oppewal, T. Huybers, Sara Dolnicar, J. J. Louviere, T. Devinney Jan 2007

Discretionary Expenditure And Tourism Consumption: Insights From A Choice Experiment, G. I. Crouch, H. Oppewal, T. Huybers, Sara Dolnicar, J. J. Louviere, T. Devinney

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Consumers’ decisions to spend money on tourism occur in the context of the other potential uses of their resources and corresponding values or utilities. While many studies have examined the demand for travel and tourism there is no known study that reveals how individuals and households make tradeoffs when allocating their spending between various potential categories of discretionary expenditure. This study assesses these tradeoffs empirically through the conduct of a choice experiment on a random sample of Australian consumers. The results provide insight into how each category of discretionary expenditure is valued and how spending in each category competes for …

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Travel Agency Marketing Strategy: Insights From Switzerland, Sara Dolnicar, C. Laesser Jan 2007

Travel Agency Marketing Strategy: Insights From Switzerland, Sara Dolnicar, C. Laesser

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper provides insight into alternative strategies for travel agencies in a matured travel market with a high internet penetration. Discounting arguments that claim that there will be no need for travel agents in future, two possible roles for travel agents can be derived from theory and prior studies in the field: travel agents can survive if they focus on specific specialized services, such as travel consultation (specialization; hypothesizing that systematic differences exist between the usage of travel agents for different travel contexts), and travel agents can survive if they focus on specific segments of the market, such as older …

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The International Volunteering Market: Market Segments And Competitive Relations, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle Jan 2007

The International Volunteering Market: Market Segments And Competitive Relations, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The number of nonprofit and social agencies relying on the help of volunteers has grown enormously in recent decades. This has lead to increased competition between these organisations for the limited resources available, and the growing adoption of what have traditionally been considered ‘commercial’ business techniques such as marketing. There have been calls for greater and more sophisticated use of ‘tried and tested’ marketing concepts such as competition, segmentation, and positioning to help volunteering organisations manage this pressure effectively. This study shines the spotlight on individuals who volunteer for multiple types of organisations in an effort to determine which organisations …

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Desalination And Recycling: Australians Raise Health, Environment And Cost Concerns, Sara Dolnicar, A. Schafer Jan 2007

Desalination And Recycling: Australians Raise Health, Environment And Cost Concerns, Sara Dolnicar, A. Schafer

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Desalination and recycling are hot topics in Australia, with considerable public opposition to both technologies in a country that is desperately short of water. The authors have done new research which show that, while the results are “very clear”, the lack of knowledge among the population makes their choices less than informed.

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Double Degrees: Double The Trouble Or Twice The Return?, A. Russell, Sara Dolnicar, M. Ayoub Jan 2007

Double Degrees: Double The Trouble Or Twice The Return?, A. Russell, Sara Dolnicar, M. Ayoub

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Double degrees (also called joint or combined degrees) – programs of study combining two bachelor degrees – are increasingly popular in Australian universities, particularly among women. A case study using qualitative and quantitative surveys of current and past double degree students is presented. The study indicates that double degrees benefit students in providing a broad education and increasing skills and options. However, benefits are not fully realised because of administrative difficulties, lack of support and absence of 'learning communities'. These problems arise because double degrees sit outside the disciplinary structure of universities. As such, however, double degrees have potential to …

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Extending Rungie Et Al.’S Model Of Brand Image Stability To Account For Heterogeneity, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, John Rossiter Jan 2007

Extending Rungie Et Al.’S Model Of Brand Image Stability To Account For Heterogeneity, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, John Rossiter

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Rungie et al. (2005) recently proposed a model that describes the reliability and stability of responses to attitude questions in brand image measurement. We test the validity of this model compared to the model proposed originally by Dall’Olmo Riley et al. (1997) using a new data set which was collected in view of findings by Dolnicar and Heindler (2004) that respondent fatigue has major negative effects on brand image stability. We propose an extension to the proposed model in which we account for heterogeneity in stability across brand-attribute associations. The extended model performs better than the two benchmark models and …

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Ecrm And Managerial Discretion, Tim Coltman, Sara Dolnicar Jan 2007

Ecrm And Managerial Discretion, Tim Coltman, Sara Dolnicar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Most sectors of industry, commerce and government have reported variation in the performance payoff from electronic customer relationship management (eCRM). In this paper we build on a surprisingly sparse literature regarding the importance of managerial discretion, to show that the heterogeneity of beliefs held by managers about eCRM execution matter when explaining eCRM success. Drawing on a data sample comprising 50 interviews and 293 survey responses we utilise segmentation techniques to identify significant differences in managerial beliefs and then associate these belief segments with eCRM performance. Results indicate that (1) three distinct types of managers can be identified based on …

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Assessing Analytical Robustness In Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun Jan 2007

Assessing Analytical Robustness In Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Response styles can distort survey findings. Culture-specific response styles (CSRS) are particularly problematic for researchers using multicultural samples because the resulting data contamination can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the research question under study. This article critically reviews past recommendations to correct for cultural biases in responses, and proposes a framework that enables the researcher to assess the robustness of empirical findings from CSRS. This approach also avoids the disadvantages of ignoring the problem and interpreting spurious results or choosing one single correction technique that potentially introduces new kinds of data contamination.

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Integrating Doing And Thinking In A Work Context: An Australian Knowledge Management Perspective, H. Linger, Helen M. Hasan, F. Burstein Jan 2007

Integrating Doing And Thinking In A Work Context: An Australian Knowledge Management Perspective, H. Linger, Helen M. Hasan, F. Burstein

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper aims to provide evidence for the proposition that the Australian Standard creation process parallels a direction of KM research pursued by Information Systems (IS) academics in Australia. Two theoretical frameworks, one task-based and one activity-based, are used in this paper to amplify the innovative insights of the Australian Standard, providing a more substantial theoretical base that is grounded in the practice of integrating production (doing) with the conceptual and cognitive work (thinking) that underpins that production within a specific work context. We demonstrate that the Australian Knowledge Management (KM) Standard, developed by a committee of KM professionals and …

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Structural Breaks And Testing For The Random Walk Hypothesis In International Stock Prices, S. Chancharat, Abbas Valadkhani Jan 2007

Structural Breaks And Testing For The Random Walk Hypothesis In International Stock Prices, S. Chancharat, Abbas Valadkhani

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper examines whether stock prices for 16 countries are trend stationary or follow a random walk process using the (Zivot and Andrews, 1992) and (Lumsdaine and Papell, 1997) tests and monthly data (1987:12-2005:12). With one structural break, the ZA test results provide evidence in favour of random walk hypothesis in 14 countries. However, when two endogenously-determined structural breaks are considered, this hypothesis was rejected for only five countries, suggesting a robust conclusion regarding the non-stationarity of stock prices world wide. In addition, the dates of structural break in most cases point to the Asian crisis in the period 1996-1998.

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Discipline-Specific Forecasting Of Research Output In Australian Universities, Abbas Valadkhani, Simon Ville Jan 2007

Discipline-Specific Forecasting Of Research Output In Australian Universities, Abbas Valadkhani, Simon Ville

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Abstract: This paper develops and estimates a cross-sectional model for forecasting research output across the Australian university system. It builds upon an existing literature that focuses either on institutional comparisons or studies of specific subjects, by providing discipline-specific results across all of the ten major disciplinary areas as defined by Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The model draws upon four discipline-specific explanatory variables; staff size, research expenditure, PhD completions, and student-staff ratios to predict output of refereed articles. When compared with actual averaged output for 2000-2004, the results are highly statistically significant.

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A Discussion On Australia's Adoption Of International Accounting Standards, Graham Bowrey Jan 2007

A Discussion On Australia's Adoption Of International Accounting Standards, Graham Bowrey

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In July 2002 the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced that it fully supported the adoption by Australia of the International Accounting Standards (IAS). The main, predicted, benefits of adopting the IAS were improved access to international capital flows and reduced financial reporting costs for Australian multinational companies. This announcement was in line with section 227 of the Australian Securities and Investments Act 2001 where the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) was required to participate in the development of accounting standards for worldwide use. Australian reporting entities are now required to prepare their financial statements based on the Australian Equivalents of …

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Interday And Intraday Volatility: Additional Evidence From The Shanghai Stock Exchange, G. Tian, M. Guo Jan 2007

Interday And Intraday Volatility: Additional Evidence From The Shanghai Stock Exchange, G. Tian, M. Guo

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

After examining both the interday and intraday return volatility of the Shanghai Composite Stock Index, it was found that the open-to-open return variance is consistently greater than the close-to-close variance. Examining the volatility of interday returns and variance ratio tests with five-minute intervals reveals an L-shaped pattern, or more precisely, two L-shaped patterns, starting with a small hump during both the morning and the afternoon sessions, with the morning session having a much higher interday volatility than the afternoon session. This L-shaped interday volatility is supported by the similarly shaped intraday volatility pattern. This result suggests that the high volatility …

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An Examination Of Poverty In South Asia With Special Reference To Sri Lanka, Arusha V. Cooray Jan 2007

An Examination Of Poverty In South Asia With Special Reference To Sri Lanka, Arusha V. Cooray

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

South Asia comprises India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan. With a population of approximately 1.4 billion it encompasses about two-thirds of the world's poor. One of the biggest challenges facing South Asia today is the issue of combating poverty. The purpose of this paper is to review the development record of South Asia and provide recommendations for the reduction of poverty in the future. However, Afghanistan is excluded from the study due to the non-availability of most data. Sri Lanka has been an outlier in relation to its South Asian counterparts with regard to its …

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1st, 2nd And 3rd Generation Implementations Of An Elearning Deign: Re-Use From Postgraduate Law To Block/Online Engineering Course, S. R. Lambert, C. J. Brewer Jan 2007

1st, 2nd And 3rd Generation Implementations Of An Elearning Deign: Re-Use From Postgraduate Law To Block/Online Engineering Course, S. R. Lambert, C. J. Brewer

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

In order to meet the demands of postgraduate students who were time poor and unable to regularly attend face-to-face classes, one lecturer in the Faculty Law at the University of Wollongong (UOW) sought the assistance of a Learning Designer to redesign the Postgraduate Practical Legal Training (PLT) program into a flexible blended learning format, using a block/online approach. The program used an authentic workplace-simulated model that took advantage of emerging technologies to enable effective online teaching and learning. This learning design was reused to redesign two subjects within the Postgraduate Engineering Management course. To monitor the effectiveness of this approach …

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Ascilite Report On Key Practitioner Interviews For The Carrick Exchange Project, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly Jan 2007

Ascilite Report On Key Practitioner Interviews For The Carrick Exchange Project, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This report is one of several data gathering processes implemented as part of Stage 2 of the ascilite research (January to September 2007). Full details of the ascilite project are provided in the ascilite/Carrick Exchange Proposal and Project Plan 2007. (See also reports by Phillips, Orrell and Millea (2007), and Lefoe, O'Reilly, Parrish, Bennett, Keppell and Gunn (2007)). For this segment of the research, ascilite conducted twenty-nine phone interviews with key practitioners drawn from Australian higher education, the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector and a number of international projects. The data was analysed within a design-based research methodology. The …

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Ascilite Report 3 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Themes, Issues And Concerns Emerging Through Focus Groups, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly Jan 2007

Ascilite Report 3 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Themes, Issues And Concerns Emerging Through Focus Groups, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This document reports on the findings of three focus groups conducted with key practitioners from the Australian higher education sector for the ascilite sub-project of the Carrick Exchange development. It continues to explore emerging themes, issues and concerns, building on the findings of ascilite Report 1. The analysis is one of several data gathering methods implemented as part of the ascilite Stage 2 sub-project research. The analysis of three focus groups with a total of twenty-two participants, follows the report of individual interviews conducted with a separate group of twenty-nine key practitioners from the higher education sector and the Vocational, …

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Ascilite Report 4 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Final Report, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly Jan 2007

Ascilite Report 4 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Final Report, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

Whilst the development of repositories for sharing learning and teaching resources has expanded considerably in the last few years in Australia, many repositories have a particular institutional or discipline focus. In Australia there is no dedicated national repository or community available for the higher education sector that provides a cross disciplinary forum for sharing ideas and resources about learning and teaching, and for cross-institutional collaboration. The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is well placed to address this gap by developing the Carrick Exchange (see Phillips, Orrell & Millea, 2007). Utilising the current expansion and availability of …

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Using Evidence And Avoiding Plagiarism E-Learning Module: Scaffolding Academic Integrity, Alisa Percy, Venkata Yanamandram, Sandra Humphrey Jan 2007

Using Evidence And Avoiding Plagiarism E-Learning Module: Scaffolding Academic Integrity, Alisa Percy, Venkata Yanamandram, Sandra Humphrey

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This paper describes the collaborative design, implementation and evaluation of a discipline-based eLearning module (eLM). The eLM was piloted as a mandatory but ungraded assessment task in five subjects across all years of study in the Management and Marketing specialisations, four in the Bachelor of Commerce, and one in the Master of Commerce, at the University of Wollongong. The eLM was developed in the subject’s eLearning space within the learning management system, Blackboard Vista and included a streamed lecture which provides a range of instruction and examples of how to use evidence, a link to the University’s Harvard Referencing Guidelines …

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Providing Language And Academic Skills Support In A Multi-Media And Distributed Learning Environment, Jeannette Stirling, L. Celeste Rossetto Jan 2007

Providing Language And Academic Skills Support In A Multi-Media And Distributed Learning Environment, Jeannette Stirling, L. Celeste Rossetto

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

[extract] This paper examines the role of the language and academic skills (LAS) lecturer in a multi-media and geographically distributed learning environment at the University of Wollongong. By this we mean providing language and academic skills support where subjects comprising various degree programs are taught simultaneously across a range of networked satellite campuses including, at times, the central campus: hence the idea of a ‘distributed learning environment’. Subject delivery to this network of campuses is variously achieved through the use of multi-media teaching and learning technologies such as videoconferencing, web-based resources, online discussion spaces, pod-cast lectures, and face-to-face tutorials. We …

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E-Teaching Professional Development: Designing A Sustainable Program For Multi-Location Teachers, Wendy Meyers, Dianne Salter Jan 2007

E-Teaching Professional Development: Designing A Sustainable Program For Multi-Location Teachers, Wendy Meyers, Dianne Salter

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This poster informs the community of a project being undertaken at The University of Wollongong (UOW) to develop a program to support teachers involved in multi-location teaching. UOW has incorporated blended and distributed teaching throughout many Courses. These models rely heavily on educational technologies for delivery, as well as part time and sessional staff, for delivery. This project aims to address the needs of these staff. By examining barriers to utilisation, it will develop a professional development program that utilises flexible delivery strategies for delivery.

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Towards More Flexible Internal Workflow Change: Weakly Equivalence Concept For Inter-Organizational Workflow Design, Geng Liang, S. Lau Jan 2007

Towards More Flexible Internal Workflow Change: Weakly Equivalence Concept For Inter-Organizational Workflow Design, Geng Liang, S. Lau

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

Business process management system such as workflow management system has attracted increasing research attentions in e-commerce, especially from an inter-organizational workflow perspective. When designing inter-organizational workflow, it is important to consider soundness of the workflow, which identifies whether a workflow terminates properly. The principle of local criteria ensuring global soundness can be applied to allow the soundness of the entire inter-organizational workflow to be achieved without knowing the detail workflow of every participating organization. However, this principle sometime can become too restrictive when we attempt to ensure the overall workflow is sound while changes are made to the workflow. It …

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Reviewing The Progress Of A Campus-Wide E-Portfolio Rollout, Sarah R. Lambert Jan 2007

Reviewing The Progress Of A Campus-Wide E-Portfolio Rollout, Sarah R. Lambert

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This poster updates the community on the progress of the campus-wide e-portfolio rollout at the University of Wollongong, since it was reported on at the ASCILITE 2006 conference. During 2007 additional Faculties have come on board to develop a Faculty or program customised template and to release this to their students, and additional Careers Service programs have also developed e-portfolios. By August 2007 around 1200 eportfolios have been released to students and around 150 have been released to staff. 2 early adopters (teachers) have been interviewed to discuss how they integrated the eportfolio into the context of their particular subjects, …

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Strategic Analysis Adaptation Assessment: An Alternative To The Storyline Scenario, Susan Krumdieck, Mohammed Imroz Sohel Jan 2007

Strategic Analysis Adaptation Assessment: An Alternative To The Storyline Scenario, Susan Krumdieck, Mohammed Imroz Sohel

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Scenarios of future trends are widely used by government and international agencies to inform decision-making. While story line scenarios may be useful for business or government thinking, they are not effective at informing engineering research, innovation and design, and add very little to the understanding of sustainability. This paper presents a strategic analysis approach to complex systems, which relies on identification of risks to important activities and wellbeing. This method mimics the actual processes of anthropogenic continuity, where people explore, experiment, learn from success and mistakes, and adapt and evolve. The method is applied to the case study of transportation …

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Further Discussions On The Security Of A Nominative Signature Scheme, Lifeng Guo, Guilin Wang, Duncan S. Wong Jan 2007

Further Discussions On The Security Of A Nominative Signature Scheme, Lifeng Guo, Guilin Wang, Duncan S. Wong

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

A nominative signature scheme allows a nominator (or signer) and a nominee (or veri¯er) to jointly generate and publish a signature in such a way that only the nominee can verify the signature and if nec- essary, only the nominee can prove to a third party that the signature is valid. In a recent work, Huang and Wang proposed a new nominative signature scheme which, in addition to the above properties, only allows the nominee to convert a nominative signature to a publicly veri¯able one. In ACISP 2005, Susilo and Mu presented several algorithms and claimed that these algorithms can …

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Artists And Designers As Collectors: The Aesthetics Of Digital Journaling, Aldegonda Bruekers, Joanne C. Law Jan 2007

Artists And Designers As Collectors: The Aesthetics Of Digital Journaling, Aldegonda Bruekers, Joanne C. Law

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The visual journal has been a constant companion to artists and designers. It fulfills the multiple functions of a scrapbook, a sketchpad, an observation notebook, a filing cabinet and an archive. Collecting ideas and artifacts using digital devices is an important process for artists and designers today. However, the accessibility provided by these tools also leads to problems in traditional visual journaling. The increasingly diverse formats (such as, audio, video, or digital codes) can pose difficulties when working in conjunction with tangible materials. The storage, access, and usage of materials also need to be reconsidered. The key question is not …

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