Guest editorial: performance strategies for meeting multiple objectives

Guest Editorial Meeting the challenge

It is a great privilege to be asked to contribute some comments to this special issue of JIS. I have enjoyed reading these papers, and seeing how much our field has moved on since the Journal of Documentation attempted a similar historical survey in 1994 [1], just as the internet was ‘taking off’. My first thoughts were of Jason Farradane, who played such a big part in founding the Institute of...

Guest Editorial: Performance Evaluation of Wireless Systems

Guest editorial Eight essentials of performance measurement

A well-designed performance measurement system is vital for ensuring that organisations deliver cost-effective, high-quality services that meet the needs of service users. Without feedback on all important aspects and a system for ensuring that the organisation acts on that information, managers are struggling in the dark to improve services. However, performance measurement is not easy, partic...

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on High-Performance Multichip Interconnections

Guest Editorial: Nanophotonics for Communications

The communication industry has been the major driving force behind the extraordinary progress made in photonics that contributed to an age of information explosion over the past two decades. In the recent past, scientific breakthroughs have brought tremendous momentum to this field of research and we have observed an outbreak of interest in nanoscale materials and devices with revolutionary app...