ACO approach with learning for preemptive scheduling of real-Time tasks

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 383-394

  Laalaoui, Yacine ^a   Drias, Habiba ^b  

^a Institut National de Formation en Informatique   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

ACO; Hard real Time; Learning; Multiprocessor systems; Preemptive scheduling

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

FEASIBLE SCHEDULE; HARD REAL-TIME; IDENTICAL PROCESSORS; LEARNING; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTI PROCESSOR SYSTEMS; PRE-EMPTIVE SCHEDULING; REAL-TIME TASKS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960354983     PISSN: 17580366     EISSN: 17580374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2010.037018     Document Type: Article

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