In this research, the concepts of attitude and personality trait as well as their roles in agents’ decision-making concepts are discussed with regard to job selection and team member selection in multiagent team formation. This research introduces the concept of attitude to guide an agent’s behavior and personality trait to model other agents’ behavior tendency and identify helpfulness of them ...

In the previous article of this series we considered the need for career planning when making a job change in order to be successful in the current competitive climate. This article aims to assist you with the next stage and will examine job selection, the informal visit and the application form.

We discuss a class of copula-based ordered probit models with endogenous switching. Such models can be useful for the analysis of self-selection in subjective well-being equations in general, and job satisfaction in particular, where assignment of regressors may be endogenous rather than random, resulting from individual maximization of well-being. In an application to public and private sector...

Introduction The field of personnel selection has its roots in the notion that a candidates' future job performance in a particular position may be predicted at the time of selection on the basis of relatively enduring and stable characteristics of that candidate. Students finishing their studies at various levels of vocational education have to go through the organization's Prior Learning Asse...

Supplier selection negotiation is a sophisticated and challenged job due to the diversity of intellectual backgrounds of the negotiating parties, the many variables involved in supply–demand relationship, the complex interactions and the inadequate negotiation knowledge of project participants. To do the job well, it is necessary to develop an intelligent system for negotiation support in suppl...

Load balancing is the process of redistributing the work load among nodes of the distributed system to improve both resource utilization and job response time while also avoiding a situation where some nodes are heavily loaded while others are idle or doing little work. A dynamic load balancing algorithm assumes no a priori knowledge about job behavior or the global state of the system, i.e., l...

We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. Whilst it is common to study the effects of union status on satisfaction treating individual membership as given, in this paper, we account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we address ...

This paper presents a meta-heuristic algorithm for solving a job shop scheduling problem involving both sequence dependent setup-times and the possibility of selecting alternative routes among the available machines. The proposed strategy is a variant of the Iterative Flattening Search (IFS) schema. This work provides three separate results: (1) a constraint-based solving procedure that extends...

OBJECTIVE To design and validate a new competency based selection system to recruit general practice registrars, comprising a competency based application form, referees' reports, and an assessment centre. DESIGN Longitudinal predictive validity study and a matched case comparison. SETTING South Yorkshire and East Midlands region, United Kingdom, comprising three deaneries. PARTICIPANTS 4...

In this work, we introduce slot selection and co-allocation algorithms for parallel jobs in distributed computing with nondedicated resources. The job launch requires a co-allocation of a specified number of slots starting synchronously. The challenge is that slots associated with different CPU nodes of distributed computational environments may have arbitrary start and finish points that do no...