A novel state transition method for metaheuristic-based scheduling in heterogeneous computing systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1215-1223

  Lee, Young Choon ^a   Zomaya, Albert Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous computing; Metaheuristics; Parallel computing; Scheduling; Task graphs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTITASKING; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SYSTEM THEORY;

CURRENT STATE; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS; LOAD BALANCING; META HEURISTIC; METAHEURISTICS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; STATE TRANSITION METHOD; STATE TRANSITIONS; TASK GRAPHS; TASK SCHEDULING; TASK SCHEDULING PROBLEMS;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 49349109709     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.70815     Document Type: Article

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