Applying scheduling techniques to minimize the number of late jobs in workflow systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1396-1403

  Tramontina, Gregório Baggio ^a   Wainer, Jacques ^a   Ellis, Clarence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Scheduling; Simulation; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BUSINESS PROCESSES; PROCESSING TIMES; SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; WORKFLOW;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 2442514401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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