Individuals today have no control over the way their personal information is being used even though they are the ones to suffer the consequences of any unwanted uses of their information. We propose addressing this externality through the creation of a market for personal information, where licenses to access individuals’ personal information will be voluntarily traded. Through this market, sat...

background and objectives: clinicians in many countries increasingly use personal digital assistant (pda) as an assisting tool in clinical practice. the pattern of pda usage by clinicians in iran has not been characterized. this study explored the attitudes of iranian residents and interns toward medical uses of pda.   methods: an interview-based qualitative study was carried out in 2011. a p...

the purpose of this research was to study the effects of four personal and social variables including the age, literacy, job experience and size of herd on different variables such as implementing of managerial strategies in transition period, relevant costs of these strategies, average production per head and gross income of milk sale per head. for this purpose all required information were co...

this study attempts to investigate the information-seeking behavior of specialists, residents and interns at the hospitals of ahvaz university of medical sciences, iran. the data were collected through a questionnaire completed by 114 respondents. the research findings revealed that the three groups used informal channels (i.e. conferences) in order to obtain specific as well as general informa...

As mass media continue to play an increasingly important role in our daily lives, people face increasing number of security risks associated with the consumption information. To better understand factors that contribute individual this context, paper proposes a mathematical model examines relationship between breaches, amount information consumed, level measures taken by individual, and literac...

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and Personal Information Management (PIM) are two related research problems currently being examined by different, although potentially overlapping communities of researchers. We believe that the crossfertilisation of ideas between these communities could lead to progress in both fields. With this aim in mind, in this position statement we outline our researc...