Auditing Personal Information Management

This paper firstly introduces personal information management using computers. It then describes a suggested approach to auditing the information needs which are personal to a knowledge worker. As part of an overall research programme in personal information management, the paper describes a personal auditing approach which is positioned as part of the experimental research aspect of the overall research. The paper aims to give practical guidance including on the effective classification of an individual’s data

Teaching vs. Research: Toward the Reconciliation of an Academic Dilemma

A line of thought that compares two major changes in Higher Education and the societal environments surrounding them is presented. A model, currently taking place, associated with the perceived controversy between teaching and research is introduced and discussed. The need to foster appropriate procedures where university constituencies are brought together to participate in the process of reshaping the university model guaranteeing its survivability is recognized. Finally, options for teaching comparable with the scale established for research are proposed as a reconciliatory model to solve this academic dilemma

Optimal server assignment for a multiple customer classes problem

International audienceThe problem of assigning identical servers to different customer classes with the objectives of optimizing customer service and resource utilization is analysed. The problem that motivated this research is the assignment of batch jobs in a computer centre running the operating system MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage). A mathematical formulation of the problem is presented and its computational complexity discussed. A new schema for the definition of customer classes and a heuristic for the assignment of servers to classes are developed and applied to the problem. Numerical results show the efficiency of the procedure as compared with other previously utilized methods. The final part of the paper presents the conclusions and recommendations for further research

Recruitment strategies in a university institution: a theoretical cost minimization approach

We study faculty recruitment issues in a university. We develop a cost minimization model that considers the decision-making process for the university administration by proposing a new approach of selecting tenure and non-tenure track faculty who are expected to achieve the institutional research and teaching goals. We explain the existence of tenure from an economic perspective. We propose a faculty tenure-granting process for a variety of institutions ranging from pure-teaching, teaching emphasis, research emphasis and pure-research institutions. We find that a teaching-emphasis or a pure-teaching institution (a research-emphasis or a pure-research institution) can increase the emphasis on research (teaching) without increasing costs. This paper makes important contributions to the university recruitment strategy by providing a set of guidelines on how to manage teaching and research incentives. The paper also contributes to the ongoing debate about tenure by providing a newer perspective and to the general theory of strategic university management