Competitive on-line scheduling of imprecise computations

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1027-1032

  Baruah, Sanjoy K ^a,c   Hickey, Mary Ellen ^b  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^b 3COM Corporation   (United States)

^c IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive ratio; Imprecise computations; On line scheduling; Uniprocessor systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005215229     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.713322     Document Type: Article

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