Usage statistics for Big Deals: supporting library decision-making

Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making

Most people think of a library as the little brick building in the heart of their community or the big brick building in the center of a college campus. However, these notions greatly oversimplify the world of libraries. Most large commercial organizations have dedicated in-house library operations, as do schools; nongovernmental organizations; and local, state, and federal governments. With th...

Labour Market Intelligence for Supporting Decision Making

Over the past decade, a growing number of employers has been using the Web for advertising job opportunities through Web job vacancies, that usually specify a job position, along with a set of skills a candidate should possess. Reasoning with these Web job advertisements can effectively support the decision marking processes of several labour market stakeholders, including public organisations,...

Statistics in practical decision making

This issue is devoted to statistics applied to decision making problems. The issue begins from consideration of methodological possibilities to construct regressions with meaningful and interpretable coefficients for individual predictors and shares of their importance. Ewa Nowakowska explores properties of the so-called Shapley value regression developed for adjusting regression coefficients w...

Making Deals with Peppe

This paper considers transactions involving Prisoners’ Dilemmas with an outside option. In the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the game no interaction takes place. Since there is no official legal system of contract enforcement cooperation cannot be obtained. Intermediation offers adequate information and/or enforcement to crowd out defectors and to yield social optimality. An experiment ...

Ethical Decision-Making in Library Administration