How should a firm allocate its limited interviewing resources to select the optimal cohort of new employees from a large set of job applicants? How should that firm allocate cheap but noisy résumé screenings and expensive but in-depth in-person interviews? We view this problem through the lens of combinatorial pure exploration (CPE) in the multi-armed bandit setting, where a central learning ag...

This study was designed to examine and describe planning strategies used by persons developing continuing professional education (CPE) programs for six professional fields. From the description of practice in the six professions, a general model portraying the program development process was developed. The research methods used to guide the inquiry were those of grounded theory. Results indicat...

Performance Evaluation for Time Critical Systems Using Simulation as a Design Assessment Tool for a Real Time Air Traffic Control System 1 Frank R. Petroski/The MITRE Corp. A CPE Project in a Fast Transaction Processing Environment 9 Dr. Shan Barkataki/California State University A Hierarchical View of Software Development Evaluation Software Development Guidelines A Measurement Approach 15 Ann...

Sang D. Choi, Ph.D., CSP, CPE, is a professor and director of the graduate program in University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Department of occupational and environmental safety and health. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Western Michigan University. Choi is a professional member of ASSE’s Wisconsin Chapter and he is the editor of the Journal of Safety, Health and Environmental Res...

The Global and Local Impedance Response of a Blocking Disk Electrode with Local Constant-Phase-Element Behavior Vicky Mei-Wen Huang,* Vincent Vivier,** Isabelle Frateur, Mark E. Orazem,*** and Bernard Tribollet** Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA UPR 15 du CNRS, Laboratoire Interfaces et Systèmes Electrochimiques, Université Pierre et Mar...

This paper presents preliminary findings of an ethnographic doctoral study of police chaplaincy in Australia focusing on strategies for understanding and cultivating a community of practice. It argues that police chaplains are engaged in a complex community of practice with overlapping demands. Whilst they share notions of purpose and a conceptual value system, developing appropriate ways to un...