Iterative-improvement-based heuristics for adaptive scheduling of tasks sharing files on heterogeneous master-slave environments

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 883-896

  Kaya, Kamer ^a   Aykanat, Cevdet ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

File sharing tasks; Grid computing; Heterogenous master slave platform; Iterative improvement; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SCHEDULING;

FILE-SHARING TASKS; GRID COMPUTING; ITERATIVE IMPROVEMENT; MASTER-SLAVE PLATFORM;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33746103672     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2006.105     Document Type: Article

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