Open Source (OS) offers new ways of career for software developers. The article describes relevant competencies in a systematic structure along characteristic principles and challenges in Open Source projects. The results are based on a Grounded Theory content analysis of interviews with Open Source software developers, their project managers and human resource managers in Open Source software ...

Operations management (OM) and human resources management (HRM) have historically been very separate fields. In practice, operations managers and human resource managers interact primarily on administrative issues regarding payroll and other matters. In academia, the two subjects are studied by separate communities of scholars publishing in disjoint sets of journals, drawing on mostly separate ...

Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this chapter, we discuss these three issues in the context of D’Agents, a mobile-agent system whose agents can be written in Tcl, Java and Scheme. (D’Agents was formerly known as Agent Tcl.) First we discuss mechanisms existing in D’Agents for pr...

Olympia oysters are found along the west coast of North America and as the only native oyster species in the region, receive considerable attention with regard to restoration and conservation. Knowledge of genetic structure of this species is essential for resource managers. Here we provide genetic data for three distinct populations of Olympia oysters in Puget Sound, Washington, USA in the for...

This paper presents a discrete event Monte-Carlo simulation based decision support system (DSS), which helps in managing business processes. Process managers use available information on work load, resource availability, task time, etc. and use their experience to predict the performance of the process and take corrective action, if required. We describe here a method and a system which takes a...

The relationship between organisations' value system and their human resource management (HRM) system is investigated surveying human resource managers in 443 Australian organisations. Organisations were grouped into four main value types Elite, Leadership, Meritocratic and Collegial, according to a typological theory of organisational values (Kabanoff, 1991a,b, 1993). MANOVA and discriminant a...

While located at the University of Connecticut, Institute’s mission is to cooperate closely with all colleges and universities in the state to resolve state and regional water related problems, and provide a strong connection between water resource managers and the academic community. CT IWR responds to environmental issues in Connecticut through a statewide Advisory Board and through its invol...

ABSTRACT This paper describes the Active Response GIS (AR/GIS) for resource planning and land­ allocation deliberation. AR/GIS is an integrated system which combines GIS and electronic meeting software. This combination provides the voting, information organization, and brainstorming of an electronic meeting system, and supports interaction with geographic data sets. The AR/GIS system can impro...

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Ecological disturbances of forests by insects have a complex array of associated human dimensions presenting complications for natural resource decision making and relationships between stakeholders and managers. This article discusses the human context of forest disturbances by insects by reviewing four cases of bark beetle forest disturbance from British Columbia in Canada, Bavarian Forest Na...