Scheduling divisible loads in bus networks with arbitrary processor release times

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 57-77

  Bharadwaj, V ^a   Li, H F ^a   Radhakrishnan, T ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication delay; Computation time; Divisible jobs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTATION TIME;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0030264012     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0898-1221(96)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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