Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling Accuracy: Implications for the Scheduling Model

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1620-1627

  Sinnen, Oliver ^a   Sousa, Leonel ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DAG; Enhanced scheduling model; Scheduling accuracy; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPH THEORY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); ENHANCED SCHEDULING MODELS; SCHEDULING ACCURACY; TASK SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642360785     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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