T here is a nearly unanimous perception among molecular and cell biologists that publishing has become the most discouraging and frustrating part of research. The trepidation level peaks at each stage of the process: the editorial stage where rejection without review has become the norm; the review stage where reviewers frequently do not fully understand the work or its implications; and the re...

The Training Gaps Analysis for Librarians and Library Technicians (TGA), research completed by the 8Rs Research Team in 2006, built upon the earlier work of the team, The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries (8Rs Research Team, 2005). The TGA published descriptive statistics on perspectives on education from current MLIS and library and information technology students, new librarians...

How many scientists, while writing a grant proposal, realize that they are producing a marketing document? The answer is, not enough, but the ones who do understand that they are selling their ideas and skills to the grant reviewers are the well-funded ones. The ability to market your ideas is the most critical feature of the art of grant writing. Marketing your research plan of course requires...

Case Management, with its emphasis on the case folder as the anchor for managing business processes, is emerging as a way to provide rich flexibility for knowledge workers while retaining key advantages of BPM systems. This has introduced new challenges in connection with modeling case processes. This short survey traces the history of key modeling ideas and constructs that are being incorporat...

Requirements engineering (RE) is typically associated with the creation of a service or product. Its activities are usually not immediately considered to be part of the pre-sales phase. Yet, not only salesbut a lot of requirements engineering activities actually do occur during this phase. Besides tender processes where customers provide a detailed Request for Proposal (RfP) and a potential con...

Model transformation and its automation have been the core and major challenge of MDA; consequently OMG issued a QVT RFP to standardize its process. Though many approaches have been proposed, their efficiency cannot be validated and their application scope is still limited. The task of providing a reliable solution to model transformation is critical. This paper proposes a formal language for m...