Conceptualising Optimal Digital Preservation and Effort

Joint pricing, inventory, and preservation decisions for deteriorating items with stochastic demand and promotional efforts

This study models a joint pricing, inventory, and preservation decision-making problem for deteriorating items subject to stochastic demand and promotional effort. The generalized price-dependent stochastic demand, time proportional deterioration, and partial backlogging rates are used to model the inventory system. The objective is to find the optimal pricing, replenishment, and preservation t...

Decision criteria in digital preservation: What to measure and how

The enormous amount of valuable information that is produced today and needs to be made available over the long-term has led to increased efforts in scalable, automated solutions for long-term digital preservation. The mission of preservation planning is to define the optimal actions to ensure future access to digital content and react to changes that require adjustments in repository operation...

I-11: Optimal Strategy Toward Fertility Preservation

Background There are several indications of human female gamete cryostorage including sub-fertile and fertile patients. But our focus will be in women at risk of losing their reproductive function caused by oncologycal treatments or premature ovarian failure that could benefit greatly from this practice. Fertile women may take advantage of this technology to electively delay childbearing. The o...

Re-Conceptualising Public Health Interventions in Government: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Trustworthy Preservation Planning

The mission of digital preservation is to overcome the obsolescence threats that digital material is facing on the bitstream, the logical, and the semantic level, and to provide continued, authentic long-term storage and access to digital objects in a usable form for a specific user community. This requires preservation actions to be carried out when the original environment of digital objects ...