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                                                     Seminar

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title	:	Optimizing Print Preservation of Research Journals
Speaker	:	Prof. Candace Yano
		Haas School of Business
		University of California, Berkeley, California
Date	:	November 11th, 2008 (Tuesday)
Time	:	5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue	:	Lecture Theatre
		William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
		(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)
		CUHK

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Abstract:
　

Academic libraries are reducing their holdings of print journals as more of this material becomes available electronically, but librarians, researchers and other users of this material, such an firms offering journal archives in electronic form, are concerned that some copies remain available. Providers of electronic journal archives are especially concerned about preservation of “clean” copies that retain full information accuracy from the vantage point of the researcher so they will be able to rescan the material as new generations of scanning technology become available.

We describe our experience and findings from an applied research project whose aim was to provide guidelines and insight to decision-makers in this context. As a prelude, we report briefly on statistical analysis of “defects” in the pages of 25 different journals for their entire publication history. This provides a backdrop and motivation for our approach to the problem. We then present models for two storage protocols, both of which have the goal of minimizing the cost of ensuring, with a high probability, survival of at least one copy for a specified time horizon. The talk concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study not only for research journals, but also for other documents available only in print form, and for archives of digital documents. We also discuss other potential application domains.

This is joint work with Z.-J. Max Shen and Stephen Chan, and was supported by Ithaka, the research arm of JSTOR.

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Biography:
　

Candace (\"Candi\") Yano is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and
Operations Research (IEOR) and in the Haas School of Business at the University of
California, Berkeley, California. From 1995 to 2001, she served as Chair of the IEOR
Department and is currently Group Chair for the Operations and Information Technology
Management Group at Haas. She holds an A.B. in Economics, a M.S. in Operations
Research,, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Prior to joining the University of California, she held positions as a Member of the
Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and as a faculty member in the
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Professor Yano’s primary research interests are production, inventory and logistics
management, as well as interdisciplinary problems involving manufacturing and
marketing. She is currently the Editor-in- Chief of IIE Transactions and Department Editor (Operations and Supply Chains) for Management Science among other editorial posts.

************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

Host	:	Prof. Janny Leung
Tel	:	(852) 2609-8238
Email	:	janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Enquiries	:	Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou
	:	Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
		CUHK
Website	:	http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seg5810
Email	:	seg5810@se.cuhk.edu.hk

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