Workflow scheduling algorithms for grid computing

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 146, Issue , 2008, Pages 173-214

  Yu, Jia ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a   Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed resources; Heuristics; Inter dependent tasks; Workflow scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749108049     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69277-5_7     Document Type: Article

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