As the Editor-in-Chief, it is my pleasure to open this new Chapter in the development of EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. After five years since its foundation and publication within Hindawi publishing, the Journal has just been transferred to Springer and will be published on the SpringerOpen platform. The first five years were exciting as a part of a pioneering effort to create a journal ...

It is now more than a quarter of a century since researchers started publishing papers on mapping strategies for distributing computation across the computation resource of multiprocessor systems. There exists a large body of literature on the subject, but there is no commonly-accepted framework whereby results in the field can be compared. Nor is it always easy to assess the relevance of a new...

Introduction The selection of the right persons for a job is decisive for the success of a business, as it determines the working performance of the employees and to a large extent their job satisfaction, motivation and commitment. As a result, efforts are made, above all in Englishspeaking countries, to supplement the subjective impression from the job interview with standardised "objective" a...

Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. M...

We investigate coordination mechanisms that schedule n jobs on m unrelated machines. The objective is to minimize the latest completion of all jobs, i.e., the makespan. It is known that if the mechanism is non-preemptive, the price of anarchy is Ω(logm). Both Azar, Jain, and Mirrokni (SODA 2008) and Caragiannis (SODA 2009) raised the question whether it is possible to design a coordination mech...

The issue of workforce planning is becoming increasingly pertinent across the Australian library and information industry. This is particularly true in the state of Tasmania, which, with a small population and markedly ageing workforce, is likely to be especially impacted by the effects of generational change and staff retention and recruitment in the near future. Recognising this problem, the ...

Cognitive skills are important predictors of job performance, but the extent to which computerized cognitive training (CCT) can improve job performance in healthy adults is unclear. We report, for the first time, that a CCT program aimed at attention, memory, reasoning and visuo-spatial abilities can enhance productivity in healthy younger adults on bookkeeping tasks with high relevance to real...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between psychological demand and job control and demand with psychological distress among nurses. METHODS A cross-sectional study included 502 female nurses working in a public hospital at the city of Salvador, state of Bahia, Brazil. The Demand-Control Model proposed by Karasek to evaluate the association between job control-demand and psychological dist...

BACKGROUND There is need for an updated systematic review of associations between occupational exposures and ischaemic heart disease (IHD), using the GRADE system. METHODS INCLUSION CRITERIA (i) publication in English in peer-reviewed journal between 1985 and 2014, (ii) quantified relationship between occupational exposure (psychosocial, organizational, physical and other ergonomic job fac...

From an original sample of 2454 participants free of self-reported psychological distress, 1463 workers completed a 15-month follow-up. Baseline measures included exposure to job demands, decision latitude, social support and need for recovery. Psychological distress was assessed using the General Health Questionnaire at baseline and at follow-up. The findings showed that medium and high exposu...