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Communications of the IIMA

Volume 7 Issue 3 2007

Building and Exploiting a Business Process Model for Lobbying: Experience Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Erik Perjons, Ilia Bider & Birger Andersson

Studies on Ontology Meta-Model for Isomorphic Architecture of Information Systems

based on Organizational Semiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Mingxin Gan & Xuedong Gao

Workflow Engine for Enterprise Process: System Integration via XML Web Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Pobsit Kamolvej, Phaophak Sirisuk & Kolasak Tungchitipunya

An Experimental Study to Identify the Impact of Expert Filter Tokens for Syllabus Based Searches . . . . . . . . . . . 37

S.A.M. Rizvi & Saba Hilal

Determinants of Digital Piracy among Youth in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Jean-Paul Van Belle, Brandan Macdonald & David Wilson

My Student, My Teacher: A Polytechnic Approach to Information Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Anna Carlin & Daniel Manson

Real-Time Value Chain Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Joseph O. Chan

Performance of Energy Efficient Relaying for Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Yung-Fa Huang, Ching-Mu Chen, Tsair-Rong Chen, Jong-Shin Chen & Neng-Chung Wang

Clinical Informatics: A New Paradigm for Advances in BioMedical Informatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

B. W. Trevor Rohm & C. E. Tapie Rohm Jr.

Small Shop Dynamics: Time and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Jace Baker & Patrick McInturff

Information Technology: When is it Worth the Investment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Walter Stewart, Sheri Coulson & Robert Wilson

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