The article explores emergence and survival of human resource management strategies and organisational types in a knowledge-based job market. The analysis considers a dynamic environment in which skill requirements change rapidly. We built an agent-based model to simulate a market where firms post job offers to fill vacancies and decide how to select and reward employees; employees, bearing ski...

The European DataGrid (EDG)[17] project aims to provide a platform to satisfy the ever-growing demand of high computation and storage requirements across scientific disciplines. Its resource broker is the gateway to a managed set of compute elements for handling the job submission and accounting. In this paper, we present an infrastructure layering on top of the resource brokers for load-balanc...

Resource requirements are high to develop computer-based training or automated job aides. It is also expensive to develop on-line documentation. A cost vs. benefit analysis is more likely to favor new technology when the same system can be used across multiple functions within a technical environment. The integration of training, job aiding, and on-line information is discussed in this paper. T...

This thesis explores three major areas of research; integration of virutalization into scientific grid infrastructures, evaluation of the virtualization overhead on HPC grid job’s performance, and optimization of job execution times to increase their throughput by reducing job deadline miss rate. Integration of the virtualization into the grid to deploy on-demand virtual machines for jobs in a ...

The idea of the thread concept is to reduce processor idle times by maintaining multiple process (job) contexts and switching to a job that allows for processing while others are waiting for remote executions. For the assignment of jobs to processors, usually the current load situation is considered, predictable future processing requirements are ignored. This paper presents dynamic decentraliz...

The Dutch construction industry has introduced a compulsory preemployment medical examination (PE-ME). Best-evidence contents related to specific job demands are, however, lacking and need to be gathered. After the identification of job demands and health problems in the construction industry (systematic literature search and expert meeting), specific job demands and related requirements were d...

Benefit eligibility requirements intend to incentivize the unemployed find work more quickly. Our results, in an Australian context, suggest that those subjected benefit requirements, despite searching at least as hard, take longer employment. Moreover, they spend less time employment first twelve months and, if employed, have jobs with lower wages and fewer hours compared otherwise similar wit...