Static assignment of stochastic tasks using majorization

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 730-740

  Nicol, David M ^a,c   Simha, Rahul ^a,c   Towsley, Don ^b,c  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

Load balancing; Majorization; Performance of parallel systems; Processor allocation; Resource allocation; Task allocation; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

LOAD BALANCING; MAJORIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PROCESSOR ALLOCATION; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030169467     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.506428     Document Type: Article

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