Virtual Offenses: Role of Demographic Factors and Personality Traits^†

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This article discusses one of the current important issues: virtual offenses. The topic of this paper is very interesting and important to the reader. However, the current form seems to be simple. The number of pages of this journal has not limited. In other words, the authors should be introduced to their work in detail. The current version lacks a comprehensive and deep introduction and discussion.

Author Response

Firstly, sorry for a bit of delay, you know the situation now is quite problematic in Europe, so we get to the work on the article only now. Anyway – based on your recommendation, we have increased the number of pages by 50 % (from 8 to 12) and as suggested, we have enlarged the Introduction (and extended literature research to 22 resources) and added whole new chapter Discussion, where we try to explain our findings and compare it with previous research in this area. Also subchapter 2.2 Method was added to answer other reviewer's request. We hope you would find our improvements sufficient. Thank you again for your review.

Reviewer 2 Report

Suggestions;
1-Tables 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10: Define in the text the parameters “B, S.E., Wald, df, Sig.”. Clarify their meaning and relevance.
2-Tables 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10: Make a brief and meaningful comment about the results, identifying the best results by highlighting them in bold in the table.

Author Response

Firstly, sorry for a bit of delay, you know the situation now is quite problematic in Europe, so we get to the work on an article only now. Anyway – based on your recommendation we have defined the parameters bellow every table…

As for highlighting the best results in the table, we have done it, both by underlining important lines and using the bold font to highlight important numbers …

We hope you would find our improvements sufficient. Thank you again for your review.

Reviewer 3 Report

In this work, the authors discusses the relations between demographic factors, the occurrence of virtual offenses and personality traits. On the whole, I find that this work addresses an interesting research topic. I have a few suggestions for the purpose of the quality improvement:

1. Introduction section needs an improvement by explaining main contributions of this work.
2. Important sections are missing. A related work section is needed. An individual algorithm section is required, too.
3. Suggest the authors provide a paragraph for describing the organization of the work at the end of the introduction section,
4. Important references are missing. Suggest the authors review and cite following work in the field of cybersecurity in order to strengthen the reference: "Blend Arithmetic Operations on Tensor-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption Over Real Numbers", "Privacy-Preserving Content-Oriented Wireless Communication in Internet-of-Things", "Spoofing-Jamming Attack Strategy Using Optimal Power Distributions in Wireless Smart Grid Networks".
5. Suggest the authors add a "Discussions" section to explain/describe main findings and limitations/challenges.
6. More experiment results and analysis are needed.

Author Response

Firstly, sorry for a bit of delay, you know the situation now is quite problematic in Europe, so we get to the work on an article only now. Anyway – based on your recommendation we have greatly extended the article, to address your points:

1. We have enlarged Introduction section, so we believe, that now it better describes the the goal and scope of the article
2. A related work section is needed: we included it in enlarged Introduction, lines 81 - 144
3. An individual algorithm section is required, too: We have put there whole new chapter 2.2 (lines 199 - 211) to cover that...
4. Suggest the authors provide a paragraph for describing the organization of the work at the end of the introduction section: done - lines 176 - 179
5. Important references are missing. Suggest the authors review and cite following work... : Thank you for your recommendation, we have done so, and really found the papers interesting - lines 146 - 154
6. Suggest the authors add a "Discussions" section: thank you for your suggestion, entire chapter 4 - lines 298-336 was added.
7. More experiment results and analysis are needed: we partly agree (analysis yes, but we have conducted no experiments), we intend to continue with our work and do some further analysis for another article, but for this one we believe we have compactly covered the topic.

We hope you would find our improvements sufficient. Thank you again for your really in-depth review, it helped us to improve the article.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors have enhanced the contents in the revised paper. About 50% of new materials have been added. Hence, I think that the current revision can be accepted for publication.