Heterogeneous computing scheduling with evolutionary algorithms

Soft Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 685-701

  Nesmachnow, Sergio ^a   Cancela, Héctor ^a   Alba, Enrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Heterogeneous computing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; GRID SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; NP-HARD PROBLEM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLEL EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL VERSION; PROBLEM INSTANCES; SCHEDULING HEURISTICS; SCHEDULING METHODS; SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79952573475     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-010-0594-y     Document Type: Article

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