First- and second-order diffusive methods for rapid, coarse, distributed load balancing

Theory of Computing Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-354

  Muthukrishnan, S ^a   Ghosh, B ^b   Schultz, M H ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Informix Software   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCING; DOUBLY STOCHASTIC MATRIX; FIRST ORDER METHOD; MESH PARTITIONING; POSITIVE INTEGERS; PROBLEM MODELING; UNDIRECTED CONNECTED GRAPHS; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 0032378726     PISSN: 14324350     EISSN: 14330490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002240000092     Document Type: Article

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