Online scheduling of precedence constrained tasks

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 743-762

  Huo, Yumei ^a   Leung, Joseph Y T ^a  

^a University Heights   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrees; Online and offline scheduling; Outtrees; Parallel and identical processors; Precedence constraints; Preemptive and nonpreemptive scheduling; Schedule length

Indexed keywords

INTREES; ONLINE AND OFFLINE SCHEDULING; OUTTREES; PARALLEL AND IDENTICAL PROCESSORS; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; PREEMTIVE AND NONPREEMTIVE SCHEDULING; SCHEDULE LENGTH;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; THEOREM PROVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 20544438638     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539704444440     Document Type: Article

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