A hybrid heuristic-genetic algorithm for task scheduling in heterogeneous processor networks

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1518-1531

  Daoud, Mohammad I ^a   Kharma, Nawwaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graph; Genetic algorithms; Heterogeneous systems; List based scheduling heuristics; Parallel and distributed processing; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; LIST-BASED SCHEDULING HEURISTICS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; TASK-SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MULTITASKING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80052488644     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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