On-line scheduling of imprecise computations to minimize error

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1105-1121

  Shih, Wei Kuan ^a   Liu, Jane W S ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic scheduling; On line scheduling; Real time systems; Scheduling to meet deadlines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242688579     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539792233634     Document Type: Article

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