A hybrid evolutionary approach for heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling

Soft Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 833-846

  Goh, C K ^a   Teoh, E J ^b   Tan, K C ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous; Hybrid evolutionary algorithm; Local search; Multiprocessor scheduling; Precedence

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SOFT COMPUTING;

HETEROGENEOUS; HYBRID EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; LOCAL SEARCH; MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING; PRECEDENCE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 62549144950     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-008-0356-2     Document Type: Article

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