Robust task scheduling for volunteer computing systems

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 163-181

  Lee, Young Choon ^a   Zomaya, Albert Y ^a   Siegel, Howard Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Resource allocation; Robustness; Scheduling; Volunteer computing

Indexed keywords

ALLOWABLE DELAY; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MAKESPAN; NATURAL PHENOMENA; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; ROBUST TASK; SIMULATION RESULT; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

MULTITASKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77953649291     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-009-0326-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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