Should humans work?

Who should finance WHO's work on emergencies?

Should doctors work 24 hour shifts?

The question of whether doctors should work 24 hour shifts has several aspects: are they harmful to patients, are they harmful to trainees, and are there benefits to trainees if they are going to be required to care for patients for 24 hours after completion of training? In the United States, the question of 24 hour shifts resurfaced with the recent decision of the Accreditation Council for Gra...

team . Who Should Work with Whom ?

These studies, exploring the effects of personality on team productivity, had a limited focus by considering only one or two teams, or examining one or two personality dimensions. While the previous studies are insightful, they only establish the foundation for further study [10]. Moreover, previous studies were conducted on large software teams; the results of these studies are not generalizab...

How Should a Speech Recognizer Work?

Although researchers studying human speech recognition (HSR) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) share a common interest in how information processing systems (human or machine) recognize spoken language, there is little communication between the two disciplines. We suggest that this lack of communication follows largely from the fact that research in these related fields has focused on the ...

Stochastic k-Server: How Should Uber Work?

In this paper we study a stochastic variant of the celebrated k-server problem. In the kserver problem, we are required to minimize the total movement of k servers that are serving an online sequence of t requests in a metric. In the stochastic setting we are given t independent distributions 〈P1, P2, . . . , Pt〉 in advance, and at every time step i a request is drawn from Pi. Designing the opt...