Affiliations: [a] Faculty of Business Administration, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S4M4 | [b] School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234, USA
Note: [*] The work of both authors was supported by a grant from the NSF, IST 8503626. It was part of the senior author's Ph.D. dissertation in Computers and Information Systems at the Graduate School of Business Administration, the University of Michigan.
Note: [**] When this paper was written, Yuan was a Fulbright Scholar on a five-year leave of absence from a faculty position at the School of Management, Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Abstract: Guidelines and principles for the design of information systems to support general matching processes are presented. These are based on a new model of matching processes and an analysis of key decision issues. Thus, a fruitful new avenue of inquiry into assignment problems that do not assume perfect information by match participants is opened.
Keywords: Matching, decision support, human resource management, computer information syst ms, job-matching, assignment
