Toward a theory for scheduling dags in internet-based computing

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 757-768

  Malewicz, Grzegorz ^a   Rosenberg, Arnold L ^b   Yurkewych, Matthew ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Dag decomposition; Global computing; Grid computing; Internet based computing; Scheduling dags; Theory; Web computing

Indexed keywords

DAG DECOMPOSITION; INTERNET-BASED COMPUTING; SCHEDULING DAGS; WEB COMPUTING;

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 33646472891     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2006.91     Document Type: Article

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