One of the hottest topics that emerged these days between the area of Internet and distrubted computing and the area of operating system is Web Operating System (WOS). The objective of WOS is to deliver the full benefit of the World Wide Web. The WOS will support geographically distributed, highly available, incrementally scalable, and dynamically reconfiguring applications. WOS will include me...

Managing resources in the framework of the civil construction sector is usually an extremely complex task. The great number as well as the variety of existing resources, both human and material, the diversity of tasks each working unity is able to execute, the degree of quality of its performance, the involved costs, the spatial distribution of all resources over the different places where they...

As the web continues to change the way we produce and disseminate scientific knowledge, traditional digital libraries are confronted with the challenge of transcending their boundaries to remain compatible with a world where the whole Web in itself is the source of scientific knowledge. This paper discusses a resource-oriented approach for the management and interaction of scientific services a...

The Internet, like most packet switched networks, is vulnerable to aggressive behaviors of emerging multimedia applications. Such deficiency can be overcome through the intervention of a network manager. The manager makes a management strategy aimed at improving the entire network’s performance and guides selfoptimizing users to achieve their individual performance objectives in harmony. This p...

Designing and implementing an approach to managing employees that ensures they are a source of sustainable competitive advantage is the objective of "strategic human resource management". A strategic human resource management system reflects the concerns of multiple stakeholders, is linked to the organization's specific business strategy, represents an integrated and coherent set of HR practice...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resource planning for organizational citizenship behavior, the purpose of this study was identify, explain and prioritize human resource planning factors in order to occurrence organizational citizenship behavior by employees. Methodology: The present research was descriptive from type of qualitative-quantitative. The research population in the qual...

Running parallel applications in a network of workstations (NOW) requires the use of a resource management system with batch queueing and load balancing functionalities to utilize idle workstations in the NOW and to avoid load imbalance in the network. A resource management system for parallel jobs requires special func-tionalities to schedule jobs to hosts and to support checkpointing and migr...