A parallel micro evolutionary algorithm for heterogeneous computing and grid scheduling

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 626-639

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Grid; Heterogeneous computing; Parallel evolutionary algorithms; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; EXECUTION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; GRID; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRID SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH DIMENSION PROBLEMS; NP-HARD; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLEL EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM INSTANCES; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; SCHEDULING TASKS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GRID COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84655167271     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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