Publishing collaborative studies between academics and industry

Electronic Publishing of Professional Articles: Attitudes of Academics and Implications for the Scholarly Communication Industry

Distance transforms: Academics versus industry

In image and video analysis, distance transformations (DT) are frequently used. They provide a distance image (DI) of background pixels to the nearest object pixel. DT touches upon the core of many applications; consequently, not only science but also industry has conducted a significant body of work in this field. However, in a vast majority of the cases this has not been published in major sc...

Repurposing digital objects: Case studies across the publishing industry

Large, data-rich organizations have tremendously large collections of digital objects to be “repurposed,” to respond quickly and economically to publishing,marketing, and information needs. Some management typically assume that a content management system, or some other technique such as OWL and RDF,will automatically address the workflow and technical issues associated with this reuse. Four ca...

Bridging the Academia-Industry divide: Academics reach out!

Debate has persisted over the raison d’être of the Information Systems (IS) discipline. There are many facets to this complex issue, including two closely linked ones, namely rigour versus relevance, and the relationship between academics and professionals. While there has been much introspection from IS researchers as to the apparent state of play, there has been no empirical research conducte...

Successful Game Development Partnerships between Academics and Physicians: Two Case Studies