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Papers by James Pick
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2015
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018
ISPRS international journal of geo-information, Sep 19, 2019
Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and pra... more Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and practitioners. Increasing interest has also been witnessed in industry and federal agencies, as evidenced by the recent White House initiative on Big Data. Recently, proliferation of sensors and location sensing devices has created an abundance of geographically referenced data. This workshop will focus on Big Data location analytics. It will renew attention to Big Data and Analytics theories, concepts, and technologies, and how Geographical Information Systems enable visualization and analysis of the location component of Big Data to create additional value to make better decisions. Spatial Big Data tools (SpatialHadoop) that leverage the power and sophistication of traditional Big Data technologies (Apache Hadoop) will be discussed. Big Data opportunities in different industries that are known to leverage geotechnology will be presented. This is part I of a two-part workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics
Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G
This chapter identifies the technology and non-technology factors that companies consider importa... more This chapter identifies the technology and non-technology factors that companies consider important in deciding to adopt and deploy wireless devices designed for mobile telephony and information services, the extent of current use of cell phones, the extent of existing utilization and/or planning for Web-enabled cell phone use, the constraining factors in their deployment decisions, how such decisions are made, and the practical technology implications for decision-making, including beyond 3G. This chapter seeks to help decision makers by shedding light on the adoption process. The conceptual model combines the TAM and innovation adoption/diffusion models, adding the factors of security, cost, reliability, digital standards/regulatory environment, technology product suitability, and future Web connectivity. Case study methodology is utilized for five manufacturing and technology firms. A key finding is that the most important technology decision factors are security, reliability, an...
Progress in IS, 2015
China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at ex... more China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at exponential rates. During the study period of 2006–2009, substantial regional differences existed in China in ICT utilization. In the Chinese conceptual model twelve independent factors are posited to be associated with eight technology utilization factors. The government data introduce culturally specific factors such as workers in non-state-owned enterprises and number of web pages. The most important ICT correlate is export commodities value, followed by published books, tertiary employment, non-state-owned workers, and innovation funds. Cluster analysis indicates the outlier, dominant mainland provinces are Beijing and Shanghai, with a second level of relatively high ICT provinces nearby and vast rural areas of low technology use. Policy implications for China are distinctive regional policies depending on ICT intensity, including Central-policy, low-end industry transfer model, overseas model, and model for China’s West, Center, and North. Cases of Alibaba and Google highlight the rapid growth, exporting aspect, and obstacles of ICT in China.
SIMULATION, 1998
Very often the data sets needed for large-scale system simulation and testing aren't availabl... more Very often the data sets needed for large-scale system simulation and testing aren't available. Even when it's possible to collect and use the real-world data, they're not always suitable. In some situations, only a small portion of the data sets is actually needed for system testing. In others, the sets may involve many data variables and extensive data elements in each data variable, creating high complexity and difficulty. This is especially true in manufac turing production planning, where many fac tors must be considered, and the scope of the data sets is often very large. Here we introduce the procedure and methods we developed for generating large data sets in manufacturing using Monte Carlo techniques combined with the Extended Entity Relationship modeling method. We introduce an approach that can deal with complicated relationships and order ing among random variates. We generate the data sets for an IBM electronics manufactur ing facility. We examine use of the...
Telecommunications Policy, Dec 1, 2014
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Feb 1, 2015
ABSTRACT Social, economic, and political determinants of technology utilization are studied for a... more ABSTRACT Social, economic, and political determinants of technology utilization are studied for a worldwide sample of nations through linear regression and spatial autocorrelation. The conceptual theory, based on prior research findings on the global digital divide, posits that higher levels of technological utilization are based on known factors and it further provides screening for geographic clustering of like-valued estimation errors. The spatial autocorrelation of residuals is tested, and is significant for the regressions of each of the dependent variables. Since geographically weighted regression cannot be applied, regression is performed for three world regions, based on UN definitions. Major findings indicate for Europe the importance of judicial independence and innovation, for Asia higher education and foreign direct investment, and for Africa and South America, education and foreign direct investment. The theory and findings add to the digital divide literature the method of validity testing for spatial clustering of errors.
The Information Society, 2013
ABSTRACT There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and u... more ABSTRACT There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and utilization in China. This study analyzes determinants of technology availability and utilization in China's 31 administrative units using data on technology adoption and socioeconomic factors. It examines the extent of spatial autocorrelation on technology levels and regression residuals, and provides exploratory spatial cluster analysis of technology attributes interpreted by four regional policy approaches. An exploratory conceptual model is established, based on diffusion of innovations theory and prior digital divide research. Regression findings indicate the most significant determinant of technology availability and utilization is export commodities value. This is followed by published books, tertiary employment, non-state-owned employment, and innovation funds of enterprises. The conceptual model is discussed in light of these findings and suggestions are offered for China's technology policy.
The Information Society, 2022
Location privacy is a growing challenge in today’s geo-referenced world. This exploratory study i... more Location privacy is a growing challenge in today’s geo-referenced world. This exploratory study investigates the management of location privacy and mitigation of its violations through case studies of six city and county governments in the United States. It focuses on why or why not local governments have instituted location privacy policies, how they incorporate location privacy in their management, and how the managerial processes of location privacy policy formulation and implementation could be conceptualized. It follows an inductive approach, analyzing within-case findings, identifying cross-case commonalities, and inducing propositions. Findings show that there is no consistent definition of location privacy, with each local government developing its own definition and attendant approaches to privacy policymaking, management, and protection. It induces seven propositions and posits a research model centered on the concept of managerial cognition. Practical implications for cit...
Geographies of the Internet, 2020
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2015
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018
ISPRS international journal of geo-information, Sep 19, 2019
Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and pra... more Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and practitioners. Increasing interest has also been witnessed in industry and federal agencies, as evidenced by the recent White House initiative on Big Data. Recently, proliferation of sensors and location sensing devices has created an abundance of geographically referenced data. This workshop will focus on Big Data location analytics. It will renew attention to Big Data and Analytics theories, concepts, and technologies, and how Geographical Information Systems enable visualization and analysis of the location component of Big Data to create additional value to make better decisions. Spatial Big Data tools (SpatialHadoop) that leverage the power and sophistication of traditional Big Data technologies (Apache Hadoop) will be discussed. Big Data opportunities in different industries that are known to leverage geotechnology will be presented. This is part I of a two-part workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics
Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G
This chapter identifies the technology and non-technology factors that companies consider importa... more This chapter identifies the technology and non-technology factors that companies consider important in deciding to adopt and deploy wireless devices designed for mobile telephony and information services, the extent of current use of cell phones, the extent of existing utilization and/or planning for Web-enabled cell phone use, the constraining factors in their deployment decisions, how such decisions are made, and the practical technology implications for decision-making, including beyond 3G. This chapter seeks to help decision makers by shedding light on the adoption process. The conceptual model combines the TAM and innovation adoption/diffusion models, adding the factors of security, cost, reliability, digital standards/regulatory environment, technology product suitability, and future Web connectivity. Case study methodology is utilized for five manufacturing and technology firms. A key finding is that the most important technology decision factors are security, reliability, an...
Progress in IS, 2015
China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at ex... more China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at exponential rates. During the study period of 2006–2009, substantial regional differences existed in China in ICT utilization. In the Chinese conceptual model twelve independent factors are posited to be associated with eight technology utilization factors. The government data introduce culturally specific factors such as workers in non-state-owned enterprises and number of web pages. The most important ICT correlate is export commodities value, followed by published books, tertiary employment, non-state-owned workers, and innovation funds. Cluster analysis indicates the outlier, dominant mainland provinces are Beijing and Shanghai, with a second level of relatively high ICT provinces nearby and vast rural areas of low technology use. Policy implications for China are distinctive regional policies depending on ICT intensity, including Central-policy, low-end industry transfer model, overseas model, and model for China’s West, Center, and North. Cases of Alibaba and Google highlight the rapid growth, exporting aspect, and obstacles of ICT in China.
SIMULATION, 1998
Very often the data sets needed for large-scale system simulation and testing aren't availabl... more Very often the data sets needed for large-scale system simulation and testing aren't available. Even when it's possible to collect and use the real-world data, they're not always suitable. In some situations, only a small portion of the data sets is actually needed for system testing. In others, the sets may involve many data variables and extensive data elements in each data variable, creating high complexity and difficulty. This is especially true in manufac turing production planning, where many fac tors must be considered, and the scope of the data sets is often very large. Here we introduce the procedure and methods we developed for generating large data sets in manufacturing using Monte Carlo techniques combined with the Extended Entity Relationship modeling method. We introduce an approach that can deal with complicated relationships and order ing among random variates. We generate the data sets for an IBM electronics manufactur ing facility. We examine use of the...
Telecommunications Policy, Dec 1, 2014
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Feb 1, 2015
ABSTRACT Social, economic, and political determinants of technology utilization are studied for a... more ABSTRACT Social, economic, and political determinants of technology utilization are studied for a worldwide sample of nations through linear regression and spatial autocorrelation. The conceptual theory, based on prior research findings on the global digital divide, posits that higher levels of technological utilization are based on known factors and it further provides screening for geographic clustering of like-valued estimation errors. The spatial autocorrelation of residuals is tested, and is significant for the regressions of each of the dependent variables. Since geographically weighted regression cannot be applied, regression is performed for three world regions, based on UN definitions. Major findings indicate for Europe the importance of judicial independence and innovation, for Asia higher education and foreign direct investment, and for Africa and South America, education and foreign direct investment. The theory and findings add to the digital divide literature the method of validity testing for spatial clustering of errors.
The Information Society, 2013
ABSTRACT There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and u... more ABSTRACT There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and utilization in China. This study analyzes determinants of technology availability and utilization in China's 31 administrative units using data on technology adoption and socioeconomic factors. It examines the extent of spatial autocorrelation on technology levels and regression residuals, and provides exploratory spatial cluster analysis of technology attributes interpreted by four regional policy approaches. An exploratory conceptual model is established, based on diffusion of innovations theory and prior digital divide research. Regression findings indicate the most significant determinant of technology availability and utilization is export commodities value. This is followed by published books, tertiary employment, non-state-owned employment, and innovation funds of enterprises. The conceptual model is discussed in light of these findings and suggestions are offered for China's technology policy.
The Information Society, 2022
Location privacy is a growing challenge in today’s geo-referenced world. This exploratory study i... more Location privacy is a growing challenge in today’s geo-referenced world. This exploratory study investigates the management of location privacy and mitigation of its violations through case studies of six city and county governments in the United States. It focuses on why or why not local governments have instituted location privacy policies, how they incorporate location privacy in their management, and how the managerial processes of location privacy policy formulation and implementation could be conceptualized. It follows an inductive approach, analyzing within-case findings, identifying cross-case commonalities, and inducing propositions. Findings show that there is no consistent definition of location privacy, with each local government developing its own definition and attendant approaches to privacy policymaking, management, and protection. It induces seven propositions and posits a research model centered on the concept of managerial cognition. Practical implications for cit...
Geographies of the Internet, 2020