1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996205887103316

Autore

Reis Richard M. <1941->

Titolo

Tomorrow's professor : preparing for academic careers in science and engineering / / Richard M. Reis ; IEEE Education Society, sponsor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : IEEE Press, , c1997

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [1997]

ISBN

1-118-38712-0

1-280-67386-9

9786613650795

1-118-38709-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Disciplina

507.1

507.11

Soggetti

Science - Vocational guidance - United States

Science - Vocational guidance - Canada

Engineering - Vocational guidance - United States

Engineering - Vocational guidance - Canada

College teaching - Vocational guidance - United States

College teaching - Vocational guidance - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. SETTING THE STAGE. The Academic Enterprise. Science and Engineering in Higher Education. New Challenges for the Professoriate. PREPARING FOR AN ACADEMIC CAREER. Your professional Preparation Strategy. Research as a Graduate Student and Postdoc. Teaching Experiences Prior to Becoming a Professor. FINDING AND GETTING THE BEST POSSIBLE ACADEMIC POSITION. Identifying the Possibilities. Applying for Positions. Getting the Results You Want. LOOKING AHEAD TO YOUR FIRST YEARS ON THE JOB - ADVICE FROM THE FIELD. Changing Gears. Insights on Time Management. Insights on Teaching and Learning. Insights on Research. Insights on Professional Responsibility. Insights on Tenure. Insights on Academia: Needed Changes. APPENDIXES. Appendix A: Possible Items



for Inclusion in a Teaching Portfolio. Appendix B: Statement of Personal Philosophy Regarding Teaching and Learning. Appendix C: Professional Associations for Academic Job Seekers in Science and Engineering. Appendix D: Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Faculty Position. Appendix E: Sample Offer Letters. Appendix F: Elements Found in Most Successful Proposals. Appendix G: Common Shortcomings of Grant Proposals. Index. About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

Tomorrow's Professor is designed to help you prepare for, find, and succeed at academic careers in science and engineering. It looks at the full range of North American four-year academic institutions while featuring 30 vignettes and more than 50 individual stories that bring to life the principles and strategies outlined in the book. Tailored for today's graduate students, postdocs, and beginning professors, Tomorrow's Professor: . Presents a no-holds-barred look at the academic enterprise. Describes a powerful preparation strategy to make you competitive for academic positions while maintaining your options for worthwhile careers in government and industry. Explains how to get the offer you want and start-up package you need to help ensure success in your first critical years on the job. Provides essential insights from experienced faculty on how to develop a rewarding academic career and a quality of life that is both balanced and fulfilling At a time when anxiety about academic career opportunities for Ph.D.s in these field is at an all-time high, Tomorrow's Professor provides a much-needed practical approach to career development.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437600803321

Titolo

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets : AMEC and TADA 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4th, 2012, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Esther David, Christopher Kiekintveld, Valentin Robu, Onn Shehory, Sebastian Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-40864-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 161 p. 44 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, , 1865-1356 ; ; 136

Disciplina

658.84

Soggetti

Electronic commerce

Business information services

Artificial intelligence

Information technology - Management

Application software

e-Commerce and e-Business

IT in Business

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Social Networking and Information Diffusion in Automated Markets -- Policy Search through Adaptive Function Approximation for Bidding in TAC SCM -- Designing Robust Strategies for Continuous Trading in Contemporary Power Markets -- JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit -- A Decision Framework for Broker Selection in Smart Grids -- Prediction Market-Based Information Aggregation for Multi-sensor Information Processing -- Agent Adaptation across Non-ideal Markets and Societies -- Incentives in Multi-dimensional Auctions under Information Asymmetry for Costs and Qualities -- A Model-Free Approach for a TAC-AA Trading Agent -- Ad Exchange – Proposal for a



New Trading Agent Competition Game -- Competing Intermediaries in Online Display Advertising.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains 11 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at the Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2012) and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2012) co-located with AAMAS 2012 in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. The increasing reliance on software agents has created a range of pressing new research challenges, including the design of appropriate agent decision algorithms, approaches for predicting the complex behaviors and interactions of multiple agents, including the computation of equilibria, and the engineering of protocols and mechanisms that ensure electronic markets behave in a stable manner or fulfill other desirable criteria. Drawing upon a diverse range of scientific disciplines, including computer science, economics, artificial intelligence, operations research and game theory, the papers collected in this volume represent a cross-section of recent research and cover topics such as strategies for individual trading agents, the design of markets and interaction protocols between agents, and a variety of applications.