This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of 395 library job advertisements in Australia and the USA from August to October 2004. To investigate similarities and differences between the two countries’ data we conducted a content analysis and co-word analysis of professional job ads from academic, public and special libraries. Interpersonal Skills, Behavioural Characteristics, and ...

Online recruitment services suffer from shortcomings due to traditional search techniques. Most users fail to construct queries that provide an adequate and accurate description of their (job) requirements, leading to imprecise search results. We investigate one potential solution that combines implicit profiling methods and automated collaborative filtering (ACF) techniques to build personalis...

A number of identical machines operating in parallel are to be used to complete the processing of a collection of jobs so as to minimize either the jobs' makespan or flowtime. The total processing required to complete each job has the same probability distribution, but some jobs may have received differing amounts of processing prior to the start. When the distribution has a monotone hazard rat...

As Grid computing becomes more and more practical, User needs a steady computing environment and an effective way to assemble simple services into complicated service to meet their requirements. Based on BPEL4WS, this paper introduces a Grid Job Description Language (GJDL) to combine correlation services into composited service. With GJDL, we design and implement a job support system which has ...