International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (2 papers in press)

• Priority Indexing Model for Evaluating and Analyzing Organizations’ Information Security Systems
  by Abdel Nasser Zaied 
  Abstract: Information Technology (IT) has come to play an important and vital role in any organization. As a consequence, security has become an essential aspect of information technology and the negative impacts of security threats will affect not only systems or individuals but also organizations and society. In this paper, a priority indexing model (PIM) was proposed to evaluate organization’s information security system and to calculate a development priority index that can be used as an indicator for development needs. To examine the validity of the proposed model, the information security system in Ministry of Education (MOE) in the State of Kuwait was evaluated to determine the overall development priority indexes. The results showed that the proposed model can assist decision makers to consider different criteria and indicators before committing to a particular choice of security system development or to evaluate any existing security system. Finally, the general development priority index derived in this work can be used as a reference for information security planning and management process improvements.
  Keywords: Priority indexing model (PIM), Information security system, Information security evaluation methodology, Information security management.
   
• Enhancing Bilingual Electronic Group Meeting Comprehension with Round-Trip Translations
  by Milam Aiken, Mina Park 
  Abstract: Multilingual groups can use electronic meeting technology to automatically translate typed comments into several languages, but participants cannot be sure how well their comments are understood by those speaking other languages unless a translation preview is provided. Here, we describe a multilingual meeting system that presents to each user a round-trip translation after each comment is typed, allowing them to revise a comment if the preview is poor. In a study of how English speakers use the system with automatic translation to German, results showed that the participants thought the system and the preview feature were useful in a multilingual meeting. Those using the feature better estimated the accuracy of the German translations than those who did not use round-trip translation, and there was a significant, positive correlation between the forward translations to German and the back translations to English, indicating that the accuracy can be predicted and comprehension can be enhanced in a bilingual meeting.
  Keywords: Electronic meetings, bilingual meetings, machine translation, comprehension