Research on tap at Award Winners Speaker Series

Nipissing’s Award Winners Speaker Series gets rolling on October 1, at 7 p.m. in the Harris Learning Library with Dr. Haibin Zhu discussing Group Role Assignment and Transfer.Role-Based Collaboration is an emerging approach utilizing roles as mechanisms to support collaboration. Group role assignment and transfer problems are fundamental and complex; requiring computers to obtain solutions. Computer-based solutions can be applied to many diverse fields, from resource management, organization and training, to services provision and social networking.
This talk introduces the concepts and principles of Role-Based Collaboration, clarifies the group role assignment and transfer problems, illustrates the complexity of the problems, discusses the solutions and presents the newest application cases.
The presentation is free of charge and all are welcome.
Future speakers include:October 29: Dr. David Tabachnick, How Big is that Crucifix?: The Charter of Quebec Values as an Attack on MulticulturalismNovember 19: Dr. Amir Erfani, A reversal in the population policy of Iran: Do curbing family planning programs raise low fertility?January 21: Dr. Trevor Smith, Quality Palliative Care in Ontario: the role of standardized comprehensive assessmentFebruary 25: Dr. Jeff Dech, Seeing the forest for the trees: ecological modeling of forest landscapes
The Award Winners Speakers Series was introduced last year in celebration of the university’s 20th anniversary as an independent degree granting institution. The series features Nipissing faculty who have earned a prestigious Research Achievement Award, speaking about their work. ?