Manufacturing enterprises nowadays face the challenge of increasing energy price and emission reduction requirements. An approach to reduce energy cost and become environmental friendly is to incorporate energy consumption into consideration while making the scheduling plans. The research presented by this paper is set in a classical job shop circumstance, the model for the triple objectives pr...

In this article, the authors consider the n-job single-machine scheduling problem in which jobs with stochastic processing time requirements arrive to the system at random times. The performance measure combines both mean and variance of job completion times. In this study, a dispatching rule is designed to minimize the performance measure using a simulation model built using AWESIM. Different ...

Mobile computing device adoption in organizations is proliferating with the rapid development of mobile computing technology. In this paper, we proposed a new construct, the Information Processing Support Index (IPSI), to capture how well these devices support employees’ job-required information processing activities. The instrument yields scores that measure perceptions about mobile devices’ c...

The exponential growth of digitalisation and the continuous increase in sustainability needs are currently reshaping European manufacturing industry through its entire value chain. Industrial sectors have undergone significant changes globally recent years, they will continue to face this deep transformation. sectors, more specifically, companies, need develop a relevant strategy that can suppo...

This paper identifies the professional profiles of graduates for job positions in accommodation sector, particular, whether specific skills position or related to tourism sector are preferred. A conjoint design is applied, which presents more realistic context asking respondents evaluate potential “product” profiles. Managers facilities expressed their preferences on four hypothetical candidate...

Although Grids have been used extensively for executing applications with compute-intensive jobs, there exist several applications with a large number of lightweight jobs. The overall processing undertaking of these applications involves high overhead time and cost in terms of (i) job transmission to and from Grid resources and, (ii) job processing at the Grid resources. Therefore, there is a n...

The Internet has become an increasingly important source for finding the right employees, so more and more companies post their job openings on the Web. The large amount and dynamic nature of career recruiting information causes information overload problems for job seekers. To assist Internet users in searching for the right job, a range of research and commercial systems were developed over t...

Data Grid is an infrastructure that controls huge amount of data files, and provides intensive computational resources across geographically distributed collaboration. The heterogeneity and geographic dispersion of grid resources and applications place some complex problems such as job scheduling. Most existing scheduling algorithms in Grids only focus on one kind of Grid jobs which can be data...