An incremental genetic algorithm approach to multiprocessor scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 824-834

  Wu, Annie S ^a   Yu, Han ^a   Jin, Shiyuan ^a   Lin, Kuo Chi ^b   Schiavone, Guy ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MULTITASKING; PERFORMANCE;

CRITICAL PATH FAST DUPLICATION; DUPLICATION SCHEDULING HEURISTIC; PARALLEL PROCESSING; TASK SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544231492     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2004.38     Document Type: Article

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