Parallel tabu search message-passing synchronous strategies for task scheduling under precedence constraints

Journal of Heuristics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-223

  Porto, Stella C S ^a   Ribeiro, Celso C ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Master slave; Parallel algorithms; SPMD; Tabu search; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ASYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL MACHINE; MASTER SLAVE MODEL; MULTIPLE TOKEN MESSAGE PASSING SCHEMES; SINGLE PROGRAM MULTIPLE DATA MODEL; SINGLE TOKEN MESSAGE PASSING SCHEMES; TABU SEARCH ALGORITHM; TASK SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030092577     PISSN: 13811231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00127078     Document Type: Article

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