A comparison of multiprocessor task scheduling algorithms with communication costs

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 976-993

  Hwang, Reakook ^a   Gen, Mitsuo ^a   Katayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Multiprocessor task scheduling; Priority based multi chromosome (PMC)

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TABU SEARCH;

COMMUNICATION COSTS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC TASK GRAPH (DAG); MULTIPROCESSOR TASK SCHEDULING; PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PRIORITY-BASED MULTI-CHROMOSOME (PMC);

SCHEDULING;

EID: 34548382975     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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