Self-adapting scheduling for tasks with dependencies in stochastic environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Riakotakis, I ^a   Ciorba, F M ^a   Andronikos, T ^a   Papakonstantinou, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dynamic algorithms; Load balancing; Loops with dependencies; Stochastic environments

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DC MOTORS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LOADS (FORCES); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS; IN ORDER; INTER-ARRIVAL TIMES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LIFE TIMES; LOAD BALANCING; LOAD PATTERNS; NESTED LOOPS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PARALLEL APPLICATIONS; SELF-ADAPTING; SELF-SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 46049085608     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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