Employee expectation of privacy within the workplace diminished as information technology use increased within the enterprise. During the same time period, increased use of information technology within the enterprise created a corresponding need for heightened information security. Technology use has continued to become increasingly ingrained within society as a whole to the point that the US ...

Next generation mobile services in business-to-employee (B2E) settings put very high demands on the privacy protection features of contextaware, personalization and adaptation enabling technologies. To this end we propose a middle agent framework that allows parties to securely exchange personal or business sensitive contextual information independently of the available networks. In order to de...

We consider the multiple shift scheduling problem modelled as a covering problem. Such problems are characterized by a constraint matrix that has in every column blocks of consecutive ones, each corresponding to a shift. We focus on three type of shift scheduling problems classified according to the column structure in the constraint matrix: consecutive ones columns, cyclical ones columns and k...

The crew scheduling problem in the airline industry is extensively investigated in the operations research literature since efficient crew employment can drastically reduce operational costs of airline companies. Given the flight schedule of an airline company, crew scheduling is the process of assigning all necessary crew members in such a way that the airline is able to operate all its flight...

Employees who are motivated perform their jobs better. IS managers can enhance and leverage the human resource capability of their departments by understanding the role motivation plays in creating a responsive and productive IS staff. This article describes an effective method for managers to identify the motivational issues for individual employees. In addition, it proposes strategies for adm...

Excerpt] Scheduling front-line service providers is a constant challenge for hospitality managers, given the inevitable tradeoff between service standards and operating expense. Traditional employee scheduling typically applies a cost-minimization approach to specify the level of front-line service providers who will be available to meet periodic demand. That cost includes the opportunity cost ...

T paper is concerned with the problem of determining the optimal size and composition of a permanent workforce needed to run a facility when demand is specified by a workstation group (WSG) for up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For full-time employees, a solution is characterized by a bid job, which consists of a five-day-a-week schedule, a lunch break for all shifts, and a set of WSG task a...

OBJECTIVES Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a defined occupational hazard. The association though between SHS exposure in semi-open air venues and tobacco specific carcinogen uptake is an area of debate. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross sectional survey of 49 semi-open air cafes in Athens, Greece was performed during the summer of 2008, prior to the adoption of the national smoke free legislation. All v...

In recent years, Industry 4.0 has provided many tools to replicate, monitor, and control physical systems. The purpose is connect production assets build cyber-physical systems that ensure the safety, quality, efficiency of processes. Particularly, concept digital twins been introduced create virtual representation where both elements are connected exchange information. This general definition ...