job object

Job objects were introduced in Windows 2000.

Security descriptors can be associated with any named objects, including files, folders, shares, registry keys, processes, threads, named pipes, services, job objects and other resources.

Abstract Job Object (AJO) describes, in abstract form, an action carried out on a computational grid.

A algorithm that is given a person object typed as an accountant and a job object typed as engineering rejects the scheduling of that person for that job.