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Deterministic Truthful Approximation Schemes for Scheduling Related.. - Auletta, De Prisco, Penna, Persiano (2003)   (Correct)
We consider the problem of scheduling on parallel related machines owned by selfish agents. We provide a deterministic polynomial-time approximation scheme and suitable payment functions that yield a ... / apply to utilitarian problems. Task scheduling is not monotone since we aim br A simpler variant of task scheduling has been tackled in AT

Spatial Instruction Scheduling for Raw Machines - Swenson (2002)   (Correct)
Instruction scheduling on software exposed architectures, such as Raw, must be performed in both time and space. The complexity and variance of application scheduling regions dictates that the space-t... /

Efficient Periodic Scheduling by Trees - Bar-Noy, Dreizin, Patt-Shamir (2002)   (Correct)
In a perfectly-periodic schedule, time is divided into time-slots, and each client gets a time slot precisely every predefined number of time slots. The input to a schedule design algorithm is a frequ... / design stage and the on-line scheduling task their on-line scheduling

Adaptive Load Sharing for Network Processors - Kencl, Le Boudec (2002)   (Correct)
A novel scheme for processing packets in a router is presented, which provides for load sharing among multiple network processors distributed within the router. It is complemented by a feedback contro... / typically used. Such a global task scheduling heuristic usually takes some br H. H. Ali and T. Lewis. Task scheduling in multiprocessing systems.

Battery-Driven System Design: A New Frontier in Low Power Design - Lahiri, Raghunathan, Dey, Panigrahi (2002)   (Correct)
As an increasing number of electronic systems are powered by batteries, battery life becomes a primary design consideration. Maximizing battery life requires system designers to develop an understandi... / for frequency scaling task scheduling voltage scaling and power br A. Battery-aware Task Scheduling Battery-aware static

Profile-based Dynamic Voltage Scheduling using Program Checkpoints - Azevedo, Issenin, Cornea, Gupta.. (2002)   (Correct)
Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a known effective mechanism for reducing CPU energy consumption without significant performance degradation. While a lot of work has been done on inter-task scheduling... / of work has been done on inter-task scheduling algorithms to implement DVS br Chakrabarti. Variable voltage task scheduling for minimizing energy or

Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Planning for the Ubiquitous Grid - Sample, Keyani, Wiederhold (2002)   (Correct)
Computational Grid projects are ushering in an environment where clients make use of resources and services that are far too expensive for single clients to manage or maintain. Clients compose a megap... /

E2WFQ: An Energy Efficient Fair Scheduling Policy for Wireless Systems - Raghunathan, Ganeriwal, Schurgers.. (2002)   (Correct)
As embedded systems are being networked, often wirelessly, an increasingly larger share of their total energy budget is due to the communication. This necessitates the development of power management ... /

Control-Theoretic Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Scaling for.. - Lu, Hein, Humphrey, Stan, Lach.. (2002)   (Correct)
This paper describes a formal feedback-control algorithm for dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVS) in a portable multimedia system to save power while maintaining a desired playback rate. Our algori... /

Preemptive Scheduling in Overloaded Systems (Extended Abstract) - Chrobak, Epstein, Noga, Sgall, van.. (2002)   (Correct)
We study the problem of scheduling a set of preemptive tasks, where each task j is specified by its release time r j , deadline d j , processing time p j , and weight w j representing its profit rate. /

Robust Scheduling for Bag-of-Tasks Applications Through Task.. - Silva, Cirne, Brasileiro (2002)   (Correct)
Scheduling independent tasks on heterogeneous environments, like Grids, is not trivial. To make a good scheduling plan on this kind of environments is usually needed prediction information like host s... /

A POSIX-Ada Interface for - Application-Defined Scheduling Mario (2002)   (Correct)
This paper presents an application program interface (API) that enables applications running on top of a POSIX operating system to use applicationdefined scheduling algorithms in a way compatible wi... /

k-Depth Look-ahead Task Scheduling in Network of Heterogeneous.. - Woo, Yeom (2002)   (Correct)
The objective of the task scheduling is to achieve the minimum execution time of all the tasks with their precedence requirements satis ed. Although several task scheduling heuristics for the heteroge... /

Towards Automatic Corpus Preparation For A German Broadcast News.. - Macherey, Ney (2002)   (Correct)
When setting up a speech recognition system for a new domain, a lot of manual effort is spent on corpus preparation, i.e., data acquisition, cutting and segmentation of the audio material, generation ... /

Multiprocessor Scheduling of Simulation Code from Modelica Models - Aronsson, Fritzson (2002)   (Correct)
Modem object oriented modeling techniques, such as the Modelica modeling language, are increasing the capability to model and simulate systems of large size and complexity. Simulation of such large an... /

JM: A Jini Framework for Global Computing - Juhasz, Andics, Pota (2002)   (Correct)
The number of Internet users and internet-connected computers are estimated to be in the order of hundred millions. Users are restricted to perform mainly information retrieval (document search) and e... /

Cross Cluster Migration using Dynamite Remote File Access Support - Wibisono (2002)   (Correct)
Performing computations in dynamic cluster computing environments requires the application to adapt to the changes. Dynamite provides a dynamic load balancing mechanism to enable High Performance Comp... /

How to Rapidly Prototype a Real-Time Scheduler - Abeni, Regehr (2002)   (Correct)
Implementing a new scheduling algorithm in an OS kernel is often an important step in scheduling research because it permits evaluation of the algorithm's performance on real workloads. However, devel... /

A Detailed Cost Model for Concurrent Use With Hardware/Software.. - Ragan, Sandborn, Stoaks (2002)   (Correct)
Hardware/software co-design methodologies generally focus on the prediction of system performance or co-verification of system functionality. This study extends this conventional focus through the dev... /

On-Line Sampling-Based Control For Network Queueing Problems - Chang (2001)   (Correct)
ix 1. unknown ON-LINE SAMPLING-BASED CONTROL FOR NETWORK QUEUEING PROBLEMS of Purdue University by Hyeong Soo Chang In ... /

CPR: Mixed Task and Data Parallel Scheduling for Distributed Systems - Radulescu, Nicolescu, van Gemund.. (2001)   (Correct)
It is well-known that mixing task and data parallelism to solve large computational applications often yields better speedups compared to either applying pure task parallelism or pure data parallelism... / as opposed to conventional task scheduling algorithms br data-parallel M-tasks pure task scheduling techniques

Hierarchical Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning - Makar, Mahadevan (2001)   (Correct)
Hierarchical reinforcement learning methods have previously been shown to speed up learning primarily in single-agent domains. In this paper we explore the use of this spatio-temporal abstraction m... / algorithm to a complex AGV scheduling task. Introduction br a in state s The AGV Scheduling Task Automated Guided Vehicles

Investigating the Effect of Voltage-Switching on Low-Energy Task.. - Swaminathan, Chakrabarty (2001)   (Correct)
We investigate the effect of voltage-switching on task execution times and energy consumption for dual-speed hard real-time systems, and present a new approach for scheduling workloads containing peri... / Voltage-Switching on Low-Energy Task Scheduling in Hard Real-Time Systems br systems using energy-aware task scheduling. We also show that switching

Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A.. - Abdelzaher, Shin, Bhatti (2001)   (Correct)
The Internet is undergoing substantial changes from a communication and browsing infrastructure to a medium for conducting business and marketing a myriad of services. The World Wide Web provides a un... /

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning - Makar, Mahadevan, al. (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper we investigate the use of hierarchical reinforcement learning to speed up the acquisition of cooperative multi-agent tasks. We extend the MAXQ framework to the multi-agent case. Each age... / algorithm to a complex AGV scheduling task and compare its performance br Algorithm. . The Agv Scheduling Task Automated Guided Vehicles

Advances In Automatic Meeting Record Creation And Access - Waibel, Bett, Metze, Ries, Schaaf.. (2001)   (Correct)
Oral communication is transient but many important decisions, social contracts and fact findings are first carried out in an oral setup, documented in written form and later retrieved. At Carnegie Mel... / WSJ English Spontaneous Scheduling Task ESST Broadcast News BN

Performance-Driven High-Level Synthesis with Bit-Level Chaining and.. - Sanghun Park And (2001)   (Correct)
This paper presents a new scheme for scheduling and control synthesis in high-level circuit design. The scheduling algorithm tries to maximize the performance of a design under resource constraints by... / such a model simplifies the scheduling task the timing resolution is

Rate-Based Resource Allocation Models for Embedded Systems - Jeffay (2001)   (Correct)
Run-time executives and operating system kernels for embedded systems have long relied exclusively on static priority scheduling of tasks to ensure timing constraints and other correctness conditi... / as well as application task scheduling. The type or class of br are met. In static priority scheduling tasks are assigned an integer

Software and Hardware Techniques to Optimize Register File.. - Zalamea, Llosa, Ayguadé.. (2001)   (Correct)
High-performance microprocessors are currently designed with the purpose of exploiting the inherent instruction level parallelism (ILP) available in applications. The techniques used in their design a... / adds extra difficulty to the scheduling task. There have been a number of

Embedded Software in Network Processors - Models and Algorithms - Thiele, Chakraborty, Gries.. (2001)   (Correct)
We introduce a task model for embedded systems operating on packet streams, such as network processors. This model along with a calculus meant for reasoning about packet streams allows a unified treat... / such as packet scheduling task scheduling and architecture algorithm br two applications a a new task scheduling algorithm for network

A Low-Cost Approach towards Mixed Task and Data Parallel Scheduling - Radulescu, van Gemund (2001)   (Correct)
A relatively new trend in parallel programming scheduling is the so-called mixed task and data scheduling. It has been shown that mixing task and data parallelism to solve large computational applicat... / processors as opposed to pure task scheduling algorithms where a task runs br data-parallel M-tasks pure task scheduling techniques

Coordinated CPU and Event Scheduling for Distributed Multimedia.. - Poellabauer, Schwan, West (2001)   (Correct)
Distributed multimedia applications require support from the underlying operating system to achieve and maintain their desired Quality of Service (QoS). This has led to the creation of novel task and... / system services. However the task scheduling techniques developed to date br However the coordination of task scheduling with important game events

Solving The Satisfiability Problem Using Message-Passing Techniques - Pumphrey (2001)   (Correct)
INTRODUCTION The propositional satisfiability (or SAT) problem is one of the oldest and most researched problems in computer science and computational physics. It is one of the major problems in mach... / natural language parsing task scheduling D object semantics and

Optimistic Simulation of Parallel Message-Passing Applications - Phan, Bagrodia (2001)   (Correct)
Optimistic techniques can improve the performance of discrete-event simulations, but one area where optimistic simulators have been unable to show performance improvement is in the simulation of paral... / structure of the program task scheduling precedences and explicit

A Realistic Model and an Efficient Heuristic for Scheduling with.. - Beaumont, Boudet, Robert (2001)   (Correct)
Scheduling computational tasks on processors is a key issue for highperformance computing. Although a large number of scheduling heuristics have been presented in the literature, most of them target... / computing resources. For each task scheduling algorithm the input is br H.H. Ali and T.G. Lewis. Task scheduling in multiprocessing systems.

Schedulability Analysis and Utilization Bounds for Highly Scalable.. - Abdelzaher, Lu (2001)   (Correct)
The proliferation of high-volume time-critical web services such as online trading calls for a scalable server design that allows meeting individual response-time guarantees of real-time transactions.... / usually refers to periodic task scheduling policies in which successive br Sha and J. Lehoczky. Aperiodic task scheduling for hard-real-time systems.

A Distributed Dynamic Routing Protocol For Arbitrary Networks - Erciyes (2001)   (Correct)
We propose a two-level distributed routing protocol model for an arbitrary computer network. The network is partitioned into domains and shortest routes are rst calculated locally in each domain in t... / scienti c computation and task scheduling. Graph partitioning is an NP br algorithms for graphs for task scheduling and related problems exist

Continuous-Time Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning - Ghavamzadeh, Mahadevan (2001)   (Correct)
Hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) is a general framework which studies how to exploit the structure of actions and tasks to accelerate policy learning in large domains. Prior work in hierarchic... / on a complex multiagent AGV scheduling task. The rest of this paper is br the idea using the AGV scheduling task used as the experimental

Static-Priority Scheduling on Multiprocessors - Andersson, Baruah, Jonsson (2001)   (Correct)
The preemptive scheduling of systems of periodic tasks on a platform comprised of several identical multiprocessors is considered. A scheduling algorithm is proposed for static-priority scheduling of ... / of on-line real-time task scheduling. Real-Time Systems br processor. In global scheduling task migration is permitted.

Online Scheduling in Distributed Message Converter Systems - Risse, Wombacher, Surridge, Taylor.. (2001)   (Correct)
The optimal distribution of jobs among hosts in distributed environments is an important factor to achieve high performance. The optimal strategy depends on the application. In this paper we present a... / Key Words Load Balancing Task Scheduling Parallel distributed

Considering Power Variations of DVS Processing Elements for Energy.. - Schmitz, Al-Hashimi (2001)   (Correct)
Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a powerful technique to reduce power dissipation in embedded systems. Some efficient DVS algorithms have been recently proposed for the energy reduction in distributed... /

A new clustering algorithm for scheduling task graphs with large.. - Lepère, Trystram (2001)   (Correct)
We are interested in this paper in studying the clustering problem in the case of large communication delays for an unbounded number of processors. It has been extensively studied as a basic step for ... / A new clustering algorithm for scheduling task graphs with large

Exploring Alternatives during Requirements Analysis - Mylopoulos, al. (2001)   (Correct)
this article details the five main steps that comprise goal-oriented analysis. These steps include goal analysis, softgoal analysis, softgoal correlation analysis, goal correlation analysis, and evalu... / Let's suppose that the meeting-scheduling task is a generic goal we want to

Monitoring and Configuration in a Smart Transducer Network - Obermaisser, Peti, Elmenreich, Losert (2001)   (Correct)
There is a strong necessity for monitoring, runtime configuration, and maintenance of smart transducer networks. This paper describes tools for establishing these tasks in distributed real-time system... /

Aperiodic Scheduling in a Dynamic Real-Time Manufacturing System - Salaheddine (2001)   (Correct)
This paper addresses the problem of aperiodic scheduling of manufacturing systems under Hard Real-Time constraints. It adopts the extended version of the Total Bandwidth Server Algorithm and extends i... / solve the problem of aperiodic task scheduling. A qualitative evaluation br and J. Lehoczky. Aperiodic Task Scheduling for Hard Real-Time Systems.

Adaptive Task and Resource Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems - Shaheen Fatima And (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper, we present an adaptive organizational policy for multi-agent systems called trace. trace allows a collection of multi-agent organizations to dynamically allocate tasks and resources bet... / problem multi-agent task scheduling is np-complete and br It is worth noting that the task scheduling problem trace is

EquiLoad: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers - Gianfranco Ciardo Alma (2001)   (Correct)
We present a new strategy for the allocation of requests in clustered web servers, based on the size distribution of the requested documents. This strategy, EquiLoad, manages to achieve a balanced l... / This happens according to a task scheduling policy that aims at br a signi cant research eort in task scheduling and load balancing see

Parallelizing the Big Prime Berlekamp Algorithm with Distributed Maple - Schreiner (2001)   (Correct)
We report on a parallel implementation of the Big Prime Berlekamp algorithm with Distributed Maple. This implementation is based on three parallel subalgorithms with di erent parallelization strategie... / low level details such as task scheduling and communication. The system br data cannot cause deadlocks in task scheduling. In the computation of the

A Lower Bound on the Chromatic Number of Mycielski Graphs - Caramia, Dell'Olmo (2001)   (Correct)
In this work we give a new lower bound on the chromatic number of a Mycielski graph M i . The result exploits a mapping between the coloring problem and a multiprocessor task scheduling problem. The... / problem and a multiprocessor task scheduling problem. The tightness of br graphs Multiprocessor task scheduling. Introduction and

Manager-Worker Parallelism versus Data ow in a Distributed Computer.. - Schreiner (2001)   (Correct)
We analyze two implementation variants of a parallel computer algebra algorithm in Distributed Maple. The original solution uses a manager-worker mechanism to control task scheduling, which requir... / mechanism to control task scheduling which requires an elaborate br with work i.e.the explicit task scheduling becomes a performance

Minimizing Average Completion of Dedicated Tasks and Partially.. - Halldórsson, Kortsarz.. (2001)   (Correct)
Scheduling dependent jobs on multiple machines is modeled as a graph (multi)coloring problem. The focus of this work is on the sum of completion times measure. This is known as the sum (multi)colori... / system. In the biprocessor task scheduling problem we are given a set of br for the dedicated task scheduling problem P jfix j j P

The Time-Triggered Sensor Fusion Model - Elmenreich, Pitzek (2001)   (Correct)
The time-triggered sensor fusion model decom-poses a real time system into three levels, a node level, containing the sensors and the actuators, a cluster level that gathers measurements and per-forms... /

Constraint-Based Timetabling - a Case Study - Abbas, Tsang (2001)   (Correct)
This paper reports a case study in applying Constraint-Satisfaction techniques to university and school timetabling. It involves the construction of a substantial, carefully specified, fully tested an... / Timetabling is an instance of task scheduling which is a practical and

Using Sensor Fusion in a Time-Triggered Network - Elmenreich, Pitzek (2001)   (Correct)
Smart transducer technologies support the composability, configurability and maintainability of sensor networks. Sensor fusion techniques on the other hand offer a lot of advantages for systems that i... /

Memory and Time-Efficient Schedulability Analysis of Task Sets with.. - Manolache, Eles, Peng (2001)   (Correct)
This paper presents an efficient way to analyse the performance of task sets, where the task execution time is specified as a generalized continuous probability distribution. We consider fixed task se... /

A Universal Client for Taskflow-Oriented Programming with Distributed .. - Lavana (2001)   (Correct)
This paper presents an XML/TclTk implementation of a universal, user-configurable client that (1) reads user-programmed interconnections of distributed component programs as task instances, (2) dynami... / files in cdtML and scheduling task instances for execution br files in cdtML and scheduling task instances for execution

Linear Time On-Line Feasibility Testing Algorithms for.. - Thomadakis (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper we develop linear time, on-line feasibility testing algorithms for the guaranteed scheduling of firm aperiodic tasks in fixed-priority real-time systems. Firm aperiodic, unlike critical ... /

Towards Flexibility in a Distributed Data Mining Framework - Pena, Menasalvas (2001)   (Correct)
Commercial data mining systems are becoming more and more complex. Advances features like, extensible algorithm toolboxes and programming APIs, allow these systems to include new operations to mine an... / Important decisions like task scheduling resource management or

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm.. - Buyya, Murshed, Abramson (2001)   (Correct)
Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and... /

Value Based Overload Handling of Aperiodic Tasks in Offline Scheduled .. - Carlson, Lennvall, Fohler (2001)   (Correct)
This paper describes a runtime scheduling method for a mix of offline scheduled and value based dynamic tasks with a focus on overload situations. We present a formulation of overload handling as a ge... / of the slot length. Task Scheduling and Objectives At run time br Cheng. Evaluation of a exible task scheduling algorithm for distributed

Guaranteeing Pfair Supertasks by Reweighting - Holman, Anderson (2001)   (Correct)
We consider the "supertask" approach, proposed by Moir and Ramamurthy at RTSS '99 as means for supporting non-migratory tasks in Pfair-scheduled systems. In this approach, tasks bound to the same proc... /

Task Structure Abstraction - Kreuger, Aronsson, Lindblom (2001)   (Correct)
This paper explores the idea of using formalised abstraction as means of describing various operations on structured representations of planing, scheduling and resource allocation problems. unknown ... /

A Reusable And Platform-Independent Framework For Distributed Control .. - Brown, Pasetti, Pree, al. (2001)   (Correct)
This paper presents a concept for integrating the embedded programming methodology Giotto and the object-oriented AOCS Framework to create an environment for the rapid development of distributed softw... / certain functionalities e.g.task scheduling as application-independent

Automatic Generation and Targeting of Application Specific Operating.. - Gauthier, Yoo, Jerraya (2001)   (Correct)
We propose a method of automatic generation of application specific operating systems (OS's) and automatic targeting of application software. OS generation starts from a very small but yet flexible OS... / sequencing in non-preemptive task scheduling. Table compares the above br up the task C Schedulers Task scheduling C Table shows the basic

An Ada Interface for Application-Defined Scheduling - Mario Aldea Rivas (2001)   (Correct)
This paper presents an application program interface (API) that enables applications to use application-defined scheduling algorithms in a way compatible with the scheduling model of the Ada 95 Real... / adapted to the particular task scheduling policy. As we mentioned

Automatic Targeting of Embedded Systems Software with Application.. - Gauthier, Yoo, Jerraya (2001)   (Correct)
We propose a method of automatic generation of application specific operating systems (OS's) and automatic targeting of application software. OS generation starts from a very small but yet flexible OS... / sequencing in non-preemptive task scheduling. Table compares three br up the task C Schedulers Task scheduling C is given. Note that memory

Adaptive Power-Fidelity in Energy-Aware Wireless Embedded Systems - Raghunathan, Spanos, Srivastava (2001)   (Correct)
Energy aware system operation, and not just low power hardware, is an important requirement for wireless embedded systems. These systems, such as wireless multimedia terrmnals or wireless sensor nodes... /

Extended DSRT Scheduling System - Kim (2001)   (Correct)
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 Relate... /

Solving Optimization Problems Among Selfish Agents - Ronen (2000)   (Correct)
v 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1.1 Game theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... / . . Task Scheduling . br . . . A Reformulation of Task Scheduling .

A Schedulable Utilization Bound for Aperiodic Tasks - Abdelzaher (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper, we derive a utilization bound on schedulability of apriodic tasks with arbitrary arrival times, execution times, and deadlines. To the author's knowledge, this is the first time a utili... / for aperiodic fixed-priority task scheduling. Section derives the br of aperiodic fixed-priority task scheduling we therefore suggest a

CMAPS: A Cosynthesis Methodology for Application-Oriented Parallel.. - Hsiung (2000)   (Correct)
ing with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of this work in other works, requires prior specific permission and... / system requires multiprocessor task scheduling Lin and Chen which br using each of the above three task scheduling algorithms TS k This

The Periodic Polytope and its applications to a Scheduling Problem -.. - Subramani, Agrawala (2000)   (Correct)
Parameter variability and the existence of complex constraints between tasks are assured features of realtime scheduling. Periodicity of task sets is an additional feature that needs to be accomodate... /

Task Scheduling using a Block Dependency DAG for Block-Oriented.. - Lee, Kim, Hong, Lee (2000)   (Correct)
Block-oriented sparse Cholesky factorization decomposes a sparse matrix into rectangular sub-blocks; each block can then be handled as a computational unit in order to increase data reuse in a hierarc... / Task Scheduling using a Block Dependency DAG br Keywords Task scheduling parallel sparse matrix

The Parametric Polytope and its applications to a Scheduling Problem - Subramani, Agrawala (2000)   (Correct)
An important feature in Real-time systems is parameter impreciseness, i.e. the inability to accurately determine certain parameter values. The most common such parameter is task execution time. A sec... / areas such as real-time task scheduling compiler scheduling

A Comparative Study of the Realization of Rate-Based Computing.. - Jeffay, Lamastra (2000)   (Correct)
Scheduling architectures that support a rate abstraction are becoming increasingly popular for realizing real-time services in general-purpose operating systems. While many rate-based schemes have... /

Algorithms For Rational Agents - Ronen (2000)   (Correct)
Many recent applications of interest involve self-interested participants. As such participants, termed agents, may manipulate the algorithm for their own bene t, a new challenge emerges: The desi... / Beyond The Canonical Problem Task Scheduling The problems that we have br representative problem Task Scheduling There are k tasks that

On-line Scheduling via Sampling - Chang, Givan, Chong (2000)   (Correct)
1 We consider the problem of scheduling an unknown sequence of tasks for a single server as the tasks arrive with the goal off maximizing the total weighted value of the tasks served before their ... / other approaches. . On-line Task Scheduling with Deadlines We assume br assumptions this on-line scheduling task has no known optimal or

Formalisation of Scheduling for Hard Real Time Systems - Khan, Qiwen (2000)   (Correct)
This work presents an approach for formalising real time properties and behaviour of the schedulers for hard real time systems. A real time temporal logic known as Duration Calculus will be used for f... / Calculus Aperiodic Task Scheduling . Jackson's Scheduling br . Periodic Task Scheduling . Rate Monotonic

Trading off Perception with Internal State: Reinforcement Learning.. - Bram Bakker Gwendid (2000)   (Correct)
A Markovian reinforcement learning task can be dealt with by learning a direct mapping from states to actions or values, or from state-action pairs to values. However, this may involve a difficult pa... / such as a maze to an abstract scheduling task. Most reinforcement learning

Fast and Effective Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Systems - Radulescu, van Gemund (2000)   (Correct)
Recently, we presented two very low-cost approaches to compile-time list scheduling where the tasks' priorities are computed statically or dynamically, respectively. For homogeneous systems, these two... / Fast and Effective Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Systems br Keywords compile-time task scheduling list scheduling low-cost

An Enabling Framework for Master-Worker Applications on the.. - Jean-Pierre Goux Department (2000)   (Correct)
We describe MW -- a software framework that allows users to quickly and easily parallelize scientific computations using the master-worker paradigm on the computational grid. MW provides both a "top l... / such as fault tolerance task scheduling and interprocess br on different runs. . Task Scheduling Internally the MWDriver

Best Case Response Time Analysis for Improved Schedulability Analysis .. - Taewoong Kim Junghoon (2000)   (Correct)
In distributed real-time systems, a task activated periodically by the completion of its preceding task can be modeled as a periodic task with activation jitter. An activation jitter of a task is defi... / tasks have hard deadlines. The task scheduling algorithm must guarantee br DCTS distance constrained task scheduling transforms the periods of

Virtual Data Space - Load Balancing for Irregular Applications - Decker (2000)   (Correct)
Load balancing is a key issue in the development of parallel algorithms with irregular structures. Existing load balancing systems each support only one specic programming paradigm and thus are of li... / to deal with work distribution task scheduling and the control of the br are known in advance static task scheduling algorithms can be applied.

Dynamic Constraint Models for Planning and Scheduling Problems - Bartak (2000)   (Correct)
Planning and scheduling attracts an unceasing attention of computer science community. However, despite of similar character of both tasks, in most current systems planning and scheduling problems are... / the planning and scheduling tasks are solved independently br Opposite to planning the scheduling task deals with the exact

Towards Mixed Planning and Scheduling - Bartak (2000)   (Correct)
1 The conventional wisdom and practice is that planning and scheduling tasks are solved separately using different methods and approaches. However, recent development in industrial planning and sche... / practice is that planning and scheduling tasks are solved separately using br for mixing planning and scheduling tasks within single system. We

Javelin 2.0: Java-Based Parallel Computing on the Internet - Neary, Phipps, Richman, Cappello (2000)   (Correct)
This paper presents Javelin 2.0. It presents architectural enhancements that facilitate aggregating larger sets of host processors. It then presents: a branch-and-bound computational model, the su... / underlying our approach to task scheduling is work stealing a

Real-Time Calculus For Scheduling Hard Real-Time Systems - Thiele, Chakraborty, Naedele (2000)   (Correct)
This paper establishes a link between three areas, namely Max-Plus Linear System Theory as used for dealing with certain classes of discrete event systems, Network Calculus for establishing time bound... / we will consider preemptive task scheduling with static priorities. In br resource models for processor task scheduling . Swiss Federal

Scheduling Distributed Real-Time Tasks in the DGMF Model - Chen, Mok (2000)   (Correct)
Analytical results on the real-time scheduling of multiprocessor systems have focussed on partitioning and distributing the task set for scheduling on identical single processors, with the assumption ... / Analytical results in real-time task scheduling research have mostly br to study distributed real-time task scheduling is to formally define the

Duality in the Parametric Polytope and its Application to a.. - Subramani (2000)   (Correct)
Title of Dissertation: Duality in the Parametric Polytope and its Application to a Scheduling Problem K. Subramani, Doctor of Philosophy, 2000 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ashok K. Agrawala Dep... /

iMW: A Web-Based Problem Solving Environment for Grid Computing.. - Good, Goux (2000)   (Correct)
Grid-enabled solvers are tied to complex grid computing platforms and are therefore difficult to distribute. To make such solvers useful to a wider community of users, remote access tools are needed... / issues such as fault tolerance task scheduling and interprocess

Task Scheduling and Parallel Mesh-Sweeps in Transport Computations - Amato, An (2000)   (Correct)
In this report, we describe the relationship between task scheduling and deterministic mesh sweeps that arise in particle-transport computations. In particular, we argue that the ecient parallelizatio... / Task Scheduling and Parallel Mesh-Sweeps in br the relationship between task scheduling and deterministic mesh

Theory and Properties of a Selfish Protocol for Multi-Agent Meeting.. - Luo, Leung, Lee (2000)   (Correct)
This paper develops an agent-based methodology for meeting scheduling. In such a multi-agent system, each agent acts on behalf of a user. For each user the meeting scheduling problem is modeled by a... / Introduction A meeting scheduling task usually requires a lot of

Analytic Modeling of Load Balancing Policies for Tasks with.. - Alma Riska Evgenia (2000)   (Correct)
We present an analytic technique for modeling load balancing policies on a cluster of servers conditioned on the fact that the service times of arriving tasks are drawn from heavy tail distributions. ... / This happens according to a task scheduling policy that aims to route br a signi cant research eort in task scheduling and load balancing see

Language And Compiler Supported Timing Analysis In Real-Time Control - Verber, Colnaric, Halang (2000)   (Correct)
To ensure temporally predictable execution behaviour of an embedded hard real-- time computer control system, layer--by--layer predictability of the system must be provided. Based on a simple struct... / due to their inappropriate task-scheduling scheme and difficulties in

Optimal Scheduling for UET-UCT Grids Into Fixed Number of Processors - Andronikos, Koziris.. (2000)   (Correct)
The n-dimensional grid is one of the most representative patterns of data flow in parallel computation. Many scientific algorithms, which require nearest neighbor communication in a lattice space, are... / tractable. Introduction Task scheduling is one of the most important

A Task Scheduling Algorithm for Parallel Logic Programming Systems - Jie Tao Lrr-Tum (2000)   (Correct)
In this article a task scheduling algorithm for parallel logic programming systems and its implementation in an And-Parallel prolog system are described. This algorithm schedules under centralized con... / A Task Scheduling Algorithm for Parallel Logic br Abstract In this article a task scheduling algorithm for parallel logic

Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster - Sampemane, Pakin, al. (2000)   (Correct)
Clusters of workstations are becoming popular platforms for parallel computing, but performance on these systems is more complex and harder to predict than on traditional parallel machines. Hence, per... / performance also increase-OS task scheduling network behavior and

Real-Time Task Scheduling for Energy-Aware Embedded Systems - Vishnu Swaminathan And (2000)   (Correct)
We present a new approach for scheduling workloads containing periodic tasks in real-time systems. The proposed approach minimizes the total energy consumed by the task set and guarantees that the dea... / Real-Time Task Scheduling for Energy-Aware Embedded br reduce energy consumption by scheduling tasks appropriately. Energy

OR Counterparts to AI Planning - Fourer (2000)   (Correct)
The term Planning is not used in Operations Research in the sense that is most common in Artificial Intelligence. AI Planning does have many features in common with OR scheduling, sequencing, routi... / Optimization Virtually any scheduling task can be viewed as a

Adaptive Scheduling for Master-Worker Applications on the.. - Heymann, Senar, Luque, Livny (2000)   (Correct)
We address the problem of how many workers should be allocated for executing a distributed application that follows the master-worker paradigm, and how to assign tasks to workers in order to ma... / fault tolerance and task scheduling. Thus several high-level br considering the problem of task scheduling within a fixed number of

Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for General Multiprocessor Job.. - Jansen, Porkolab (2000)   (Correct)
We study preemptive and non-preemptive versions of the general multiprocessor job shop scheduling problem: Given a set of n tasks each consisting of at most ordered operations that can be processed on... / set-constrained multiprocessor task scheduling Pmjset j jC max br variants of multiprocessor task scheduling dedicated parallel

Slot Models for Schedulers Enhanced by Planning Capabilities - Bartak (2000)   (Correct)
Scheduling is one of the most successful application areas of constraint programming and, recently, many scheduling problems were modelled and solved by means of constraints. Most of these models ... / practice that planning and scheduling tasks are solved separately using br of parameters variables and the scheduling task is to find values of these

A Coordination Architecture for Internet Groupwork - Dommel, Garcia-Luna-Aceves (2000)   (Correct)
This paper discusses a group coordination architecture to support Internet-wide distributed collaboration in the context of legacy Internet protocols. Group coordination in distributed systems and mul... / goals solution planning and task scheduling starting with signals for

Solving Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems Using Dynamic.. - Brest, Zumer (2000)   (Correct)
A method for dynamic scheduling on a network computing system and an approximation algorithm for solving the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP) are presented in this paper. Dynamic schedulin... / in Section . In Section task scheduling and load balancing are br are described. The simple task scheduling scheme and the algorithm for

An Automated Profiling Subsystem for QoS-Aware Services - Abdelzaher (2000)   (Correct)
The advent of QoS-sensitive Internet applications such as multimedia, the inception of priced online services, and the proliferation of performance-critical applications such as online trading raise a... /

Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information: a.. - Mudgal, Vassileva (2000)   (Correct)
The application of software agents to e-commerce has made a radical change in the way businesses and consumer to consumer transactions take place. Agent negotiation is an important aspect of e-com... / planning scheduling meeting scheduling task and resource allocation in

Cacheminer: A Runtime Approach to Exploit Cache Locality on SMP - Yan, Zhang, Zhang (2000)   (Correct)
Exploiting cache locality of parallel programs at runtime is a complementary approach to a compiler optimization. This is particularly important for those applications with dynamic memory access patt... / multiprocessors SMP and task scheduling. INTRODUCTION T br and partitioning and our task scheduling algorithm. .

SC-Web-CS: Supply Chain Web-Centric Systems - Wu, Cobzaru, Ulieru, Norrie (2000)   (Correct)
This paper proposes a generic framework, SC-webCS, for the development of next generation web-centric supply chain management systems. The framework builds on our previously developed Multi-Resolution... / propose the Agent Network for Task Scheduling ANTS architecture with

Resource-Constrained Scheduling and Graph Multicoloring with Min-sum.. - Halldórsson, Kortsarz, Shachnai (2000)   (Correct)
Introduction Consider the following scenario that exemplifies our problem. Suppose that a set of jobs J 1 ; : : : ; J 6 is initiated in a distributed computing environment. Each of the jobs is availa... / we get multiprocessor task scheduling see e.g.K When the br for the purpose of biprocessor task scheduling K The first constant

Imprecise Task Scheduling and Overload Management using OR-ULD - Hansson, Thuresson, Son (2000)   (Correct)
This paper evaluates the OR-ULD (Overload Resolution using Utility Loss Density) algorithm for imprecise computation workloads, where tasks are decomposed into one mandatory task and one optional task... / Imprecise Task Scheduling and Overload Management br rates must be used when scheduling tasks with critical time

Low-Power Task Scheduling for Multiple Devices - Lu, Benini, De Micheli (2000)   (Correct)
Power management saves power by shutting down idle devices. These devices often serve requests from concurrently running tasks. Ordering task execution can adjust the lengths of idle periods and explo... / Low-Power Task Scheduling for Multiple Devices br in operating systems OS task scheduling for power management has not

A Slot Representation of the Resource-Centric Models for Scheduling.. - Bartak (2000)   (Correct)
Conventional approach to solving scheduling problems using constraint technology is based on a static formulation of the problem; in particular all the scheduled activities are expected to be know... / problem is static the scheduling task deals with allocation of the

Integrating Transportation in a Multi-Site Scheduling Environment - Sauer, Appelrath (2000)   (Correct)
Multi-site scheduling deals with the scheduling problems of an enterprise with several distributed production sites, where sites are using the intermediate products of other sites to manufacture the p... / scenario we will view it as a scheduling task on the local level as well. br Additionally like the scheduling tasks mentioned above the

Partial Servicing of On-line Jobs - van Stee, Poutré (2000)   (Correct)
We consider the problem of scheduling jobs online, where jobs may be served partially in order to optimize the overall use of the machines. Service requests arrive online to be executed immediately; ... / is given for the problem of scheduling task sets that do not satisfy

Scalability and Scheduling in an Agent Architecture - Graham, Mersic, Decker (2000)   (Correct)
For a given agent goal or objective there will be many different possible task execution paths for achieving the goal. One method for achieving the goal is to algorithmically determine the "best" ... / Experiments using different task scheduling algorithms were utilized to br for future research in agent task scheduling. The goals of the testing

Providing an Embedded Software Environment for Wireless PDAs - Issarny, Banâtre, Weis, Cabillic.. (2000)   (Correct)
The use of wireless Pdas is foreseen to outrun the one of Pcs in the near future. However, for this to actually happen, adequate software environments must be devised in order to allow the execution... / available energy budget for task scheduling. Regarding the delegation of

Hierarchical Job Scheduling for Clusters of Workstations - Santoso Van Albada (2000)   (Correct)
1 In this paper we study hierarchical job scheduling strategies for clusters of workstations. Our approach uses two-level scheduling: global scheduling and local scheduling. The local scheduler refin... / At this level we also implement task scheduling of parallel jobs. The local

Preemptive Task Scheduling for Distributed Systems - Radulescu, van Gemund (2000)   (Correct)
Task scheduling in a preemptive runtime environment has potential advantages over the non-preemptive case such as better processor utilization and more flexibility when scheduling tasks. Furthermo... / Preemptive Task Scheduling for Distributed Systems br The Netherlands Abstract. Task scheduling in a preemptive runtime

Within-Word vs. Across-Word Decoding for Online Speech Recognition - Kanthak, Sixtus, Molau, Ney (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we describe methods for improving the RWTH German speech recognizer used within the VERBMOBIL project. In particular, we present acceleration methods for the search based on both within-... /

Evaluation of an Adaptive Scheduling Strategy for Master-Worker.. - Heymann, Senar, Luque, Livny (2000)   (Correct)
We investigate the problem arising in scheduling parallel applications that follow a master-worker paradigm in order to maximize both the resource efficiency and the application performance. We... / considering the problem of task scheduling within a fixed number of

How Helpers Hasten h-Relations - Sanders, Solis-Oba (2000)   (Correct)
We study the problem of exchanging a set of messages among a group of processors, where messages may consist of different numbers of packets. We consider the model of half-duplex communication. Let ... /

Scheduling of a limited communication channel for optimal control - Rehbinder, Sanfridson (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we outline a method for optimal offline scheduling of a limited bandwidth communication channel that is used for control purposes. Westudy LQ-control of parallel control processes and d... / systems community regarding task scheduling has been done

Efficient Vocal Tract Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition - Molau, Kanthak, Ney (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we study the effect of vocal tract normalization (VTN) on the word error rate (WER) in speaker independent large vocabulary speech recognition. Evaluation test results are reported for t... / speech k vocabulary scheduling task and the English Wall Street

Delphi: An Integrated, Language-Directed Performance Prediction, . . . - Reed, al. (2000)   (Correct)
/ application executions. . . Task Scheduling The tasks or threads of

Development of Mixed Mode MPI / OpenMP Applications - Smith, Bull (2000)   (Correct)
MPI / OpenMP mixed mode codes could potentially offer the most effective parallelisation strategy for an SMP cluster, as well as allowing the different characteristics of both paradigms to be exploite... / architecture and allows static task scheduling. The explicit parallelism

Recent Improvements Of The RWTH Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.. - Sixtus, Molau, Kanthak, Schlüter, Ney (2000)   (Correct)
This paper presents recent improvements of the RWTH large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system (LVCSR). In particular, we will report on the integration of across-word models into the rst ... / and translation system for a scheduling task We report recognition

Practical Parallel Processing for Realistic Rendering - Davis, Chalmers, Jensen (2000)   (Correct)
definition of a task . ................... 35 3.1.4 System architecture . ....................... 36 3.2 ComputationalModels ........................... 37 3.2.1 Data driven model . . ................ / Task Scheduling . Problem br . . TaskSchedulingStrategies

Variable Voltage Task Scheduling For Minimizing Energy Or Minimizing.. - Manzak, Chakrabarti (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we propose task scheduling algorithms that minimize energy or minimize power for the case when the tasks have different arrival times, deadline times, execution times and switching activ... / Variable Voltage Task Scheduling For Minimizing Energy Or br In this paper we propose task scheduling algorithms that minimize

Confidence Measure Based Language Identification - Metze Kemp Schaaf (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we present a new application for confidence measures in spoken language processing. In today's computerized dialogue systems, language identification (LID) is typically achieved via dedi... /

Enhanced Fixed-Priority Scheduling with (m,k)-Firm Guarantee - Gang Quan Xiaobo (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling task sets with (m,k) constraints. According to our scheduling approach, jobs of each task into are partitioned into two sets: mandatory or optional.... /

A Reusable Architecture for Satellite Control Software - Pasetti, Pree (2000)   (Correct)
This paper is based on a project funded by the European Space Agency unknown AREUSABLEARCHITECTURE FOR SATELLITE CONTROL SOFTWARE A. Pasetti and W. Pree, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Constanc... / functionalities related to task scheduling. The reuse model behind RTOS br Consider for instance task scheduling. At its simplest and using

On the Use of Microarchitecture-Driven Dynamic Voltage Scaling - Marculescu (2000)   (Correct)
This paper proposes microarchitecture-driven dynamic voltage scaling as a viable solution to power efficient architectures, with little or no performance penalty. The run-time behavior exhibited by co... / level descriptions for task scheduling for low power to

Multiple Priority, Per Flow, Dual GCRA Rate Controller for ATM.. - Hagai (2000)   (Correct)
We propose a rate controller for ATM switches. The rate controller supports multiple priorities, and dual leaky bucket (GCRA) trac descriptors (such as VBR). While regulating each stream independent... / scheduling mechanism. The link scheduling task is to resolve con icts

Manager-Worker Parallelism versus Dataflow in Distributed Maple - Schreiner (2000)   (Correct)
We analyze two implementation variants of a parallel computer algebra algorithm in Distributed Maple. The original (previously published) solution uses a manager-worker mechanism to control task sch... / mechanism to control task scheduling which requires an elaborate br declarative programming task scheduling. Supported by the

Reliability-Driven Scheduling For Real-Time Tasks With Precedence.. - Xiao Hong Jiang (2000)   (Correct)
Some work has been done in the past in scheduling tasks in real-time distributed systems, considering schedulability as the main objective function to be maximized. Since real-time distributed syste... / of the objective functions for task scheduling. Simulation results show that br work in the area of real-time task scheduling in distributed systems

Adding Linear Constrains over Real Numbers to Curry - Lux (2000)   (Correct)
Logic languages have been extended in two different routes. unknown Adding Linear Constrains over Real Numbers to Curry Wolfgang Lux Universitat Munster wlux@uni-muenster.de / numerical simulations or task scheduling. In addition there are well br an example consider the simple task scheduling problem given in Fig. .

Operating Systems for Safety-Critical Applications - By Dr Yinong (2000)   (Correct)
This article discusses issues related to the computer software and operating systems in safety-critical systems. unknown Elektron: the Journal of the South African Institute of the Electrical Engineer... / programmers have to worry about task scheduling memory sharing and

Elastic Feedback Control - Marco Caccamo Giorgio (2000)   (Correct)
are used in schedulability analysis. With the advancement of robotics, exible visual sensing using cameras has become a popular alternative to the use of embedded sensors. Unfortunately, the execution... /

A Jini-based Prototype Metacomputing Framework - Juhasz, Kesmarki (2000)   (Correct)
This paper investigates the possible use of Jini technology for building Java-based metacomputing environments. The paper presents the structure of a prototype Jini metacomputing system. The overa... / our prototype the priorities in task scheduling is to minimize the number of br management allocating scheduling tasks load-balancing process

Estimation Of Token Bucket Parameters For Videoconferencing Systems.. - Glasmann, Czermin, Riedl (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we examine bandwidth requirements of videoconferencing systems in corporate networks. Based on extensive measurements with different H.323 applications under various conditions, importan... / behavior. In general the task scheduling of the operating system and

Unknown - (2000)   (Correct)
This article describes our Air Force-sponsored system to accelerate network configuration by an order-of-magnitude using multi-agent planning techniques and thereby dramatically reducing network confi... /

Towards Automatic Domain Knowledge Extraction for Evolutionary.. - Jelasity (2000)   (Correct)
Domain knowledge is essential for successful problem solving and optimization. unknown Towards Automatic Domain Knowledge Extraction for Evolutionary Heuristics* Mfirk Jelasity Research Group on Ar... / and so on -will make the scheduling task special. The fitness br common. At the same time the scheduling task is an NP-complete

A Real Bottom-Up Operating Systems Course - Bovet, Cesati (2000)   (Correct)
this paper on the second type of course, the standard elective fourth year course of an Undergraduate program in Computer Science unknown A Real Bottom-Up Operating Systems Course Daniel P. Bovet Ma... / Linux like task switching and task scheduling. We continued along this

Improved Mllr Speaker Adaptation Using Confidence Measures For.. - Pitz, Wessel, Ney (2000)   (Correct)
Automatic recognition of conversational speech tends to have higher word error rates (WER) than read speech. Improvements gained from unsupervised speaker adaptation methods like Maximum Likelihood Li... /

Measures of Size and Complexity for Web-Site Content - Adrian Cowder Oy (2000)   (Correct)
Web-site content can be characterised in terms of size, element complexity, coherence and exceptions. Appropriate measures can be defined for all the common types of digital asset. These measures are ... /

Operating System based Software Generation for Systems-on-Chip - Desmet, Verkest, De Man (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we propose a system-level design environment, aimed at System-on-Chip (SOC) designs, including real-time embedded software. While many SOC modeling languages originate from hardware desc... / remaining refinement steps task scheduling resource allocation

Mixing Planning and Scheduling to Model Complex Process Environments - Roman Bartk Charles (2000)   (Correct)
Introduction Planning and scheduling attract a high attention of computer science community because of their real-life applicability and challenging complexity. However, despite of their similar char... / the border between planning and scheduling task is shifted a bit and it br to solve mixed planning and scheduling tasks in complex process

A DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR HIGH Performance Computing - Abdennadher, Babin, Kropf, Kuonen (2000)   (Correct)
Current tools available for high performance computing require that all the computing nodes used in a parallel execution be known in advance: the execution environment must know where the different "c... /

Deadline Assignment To Reduce Output Jitter Of - Real-Time Tasks Taewoong (2000)   (Correct)
In real-time control system, output jitter of a task is important when feedback control loops are implemented as execution of periodic tasks. Output jitter refers to the variation of response time o... / pinwheel problem to real-time task scheduling and transforms the periods br of distance constrained task scheduling Processor utilization Mean

Alternative Loading and Dispatching Policies for Furnace . . . - Akçali, Uzsoy, Hiscock.. (2000)   (Correct)
deposition, and annealing operations. A furnace is a batch processing machine that can simultaneously process a number of lots as a batch. Every furnace operation has a ###### associated with it th... / further complicates the scheduling task. If the total number of lots

Direct execution simulation of load balancing algorithms with real.. - Cao, al. (2000)   (Correct)
This paper describes the model and implementation of a distributed direct execution simulation study of load balancing algorithms for a workstation-based locally distributed system. A general simulati... /

QoS Adaptation In Real-Time Systems - Abdelzaher (1999)   (Correct)
QOS ADAPTATION IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS by Tarek F. Abdelzaher Chair: Kang G. Shin We propose to design, implement, and evaluate a software framework, called the Adaptware, that consists of architectu... / message communication from task scheduling. The communication br a closed embedded system the task scheduling problem can be solved given

An Auction-Theoretic Modeling of Production Scheduling to Achieve.. - Kutanoglu (1999)   (Correct)
Most existing methods for scheduling are based on centralized or hierarchical decision making using monolithic models. In this study, we investigate a new generation of scheduling methods based on a d... /

Synthesis of Hard Real-Time Application Specific Systems - Lee, Potkonjak, Wolf (1999)   (Correct)
This paper presents a system level approach for the synthesis of hard real-time multitask application specific systems. The algorithm takes into account task precedence constraints among multiple hard... / level optimizations such as task scheduling resource allocation and br of the allocated processors. Task scheduling refers to generation of

Scheduling and Data Management for Parallel Ray Tracing. - Reinhard (1999)   (Correct)
Parallelising ray tracing with a data parallel approach allows rendering of arbitrarily large models, but the inherent load imbalances may lead to severe inefficiencies. To compensate for the uneven l... / Task scheduling . br the overall performance. Task scheduling This chapter is concerned

A Framework for Generating Task Parallel Programs - Ursula Fissgus, Thomas Rauber.. (1999)   (Correct)
We consider the generation of mixed task and data parallel programs and discuss how a clear separation into a task and data parallel level can support the development of efficient programs. The progra... / and how design decisions like task scheduling and data distribution can be br should be exploited task scheduling and how many of the

Payoff Adaptation of Communication for Distributed Interactive.. - Kravets, Calvert, Schwan (1999)   (Correct)
Present distributed applications are not typically designed to adapt themselves to changes in network conditions. In addition, network-based adaptation does not typically consider the requirements of ... / techniques include runtime task scheduling in real-time systems SZ

EMERALDS: a small-memory real-time microkernel - Khawar Zuberi Padmanabhan (1999)   (Correct)
EMERALDS (Extensible Microkernel for Embedded, ReALtime, Distributed Systems) is a real-time microkernel designed for small-memory embedded applications. These applications must run on slow (15--25MHz... / the basic OS services of task scheduling synchronization br take a core set of OS services task scheduling semaphores timers

Benchmarking and Comparison of the Task Graph Scheduling Algorithms - Kwok, Ahmad (1999)   (Correct)
The problem of scheduling a parallel program represented by a weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG) to a set of homogeneous processors for minimizing the completion time of the program has been extens... / Ghose A Bottom-Up Approach to Task Scheduling on Distributed Memory br parallel processing scheduling task graphs scalability. This

A Parallel Simulator for Task Allocation in a Distributed System.. - Aguilar, Hernández (1999)   (Correct)
Parallel simulation techniques have been investigated in a number of studies as a way to decrease long execution times of sequential simulations. In this work, we propose different parallel approaches... /

Scheduling in the Dark - Edmonds (1999)   (Correct)
We considered non-clairvoyant multiprocessor scheduling of jobs with arbitrary arrival times and changing execution characteristics. The problem has been studied extensively when either the jobs all a... / number of processors the scheduling task is to continually allocate

A fully asynchronous multifrontal solver using distributed dynamic.. - Amestoy, Duff, L'Excellent, Koster (1999)   (Correct)
We describe the main features and discuss the tuning of algorithms for the direct solution of sparse linear systems on distributed memory computers developed in the context of PARASOL (ESPRIT IV LTR P... / use a dynamic distributed task scheduling technique to accommodate

Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Nisan, Ronen (1999)   (Correct)
We consider algorithmic problems in a distributed setting where the participants cannot be assumed to follow the algorithm but rather their own self-interest. As such participants, termed agents, are ... / of a representative problem task scheduling for which the standard br . We study a basic problem task scheduling which requires new

Nurse Scheduling Generalised - Kragelund, Mayoh (1999)   (Correct)
The presence of a formal basis is of vital importance to realise an extensive research on a real-life problem. For Sta Scheduling Problems (SSPs), this basis seems to be missing. Apparently, this i... / and objectives. The scheduling task usually takes place br it is convenient to divide the scheduling task into independent tasks.

FASTEST: A Practical Low-Complexity Algorithm for Compile-Time.. - Kwok, Ahmad (1999)   (Correct)
In the area of parallelizing compilers considerable research has been carried out on data dependency analysis, parallelism extraction, as well as program and data partitioning. However, designing a pr... / H.H. Ali and T.G. Lewis Task Scheduling in Multiprocessing Systems br parallelization compile-time scheduling task graphs multiprocessors

Algorithms for Graph Partitioning on the Planted Partition Model - Condon, Karp (1999)   (Correct)
The NP-hard graph bisection problem is to partition the nodes of an undirected graph into two equal-sized groups so as to minimize the number of edges that cross the partition. The more general graph ... / circuit placement parallel task scheduling and sparse matrix

Javelin++ : Scalability Issues in Global Computing - Neary, Brydon, Kmiec, Rollins.. (1999)   (Correct)
Javelin is a Java-based infrastructure for global computing. This paper presents Javelin++, an extension of Javelin, intended to support a much larger set of computational hosts. Contributions to scal... / code distribution distributed task scheduling including a distributed

Javelin++: Scalability Issues in Global Computing - Neary, Brydon, Kmiec, Rollins.. (1999)   (Correct)
Javelin is a Java-based infrastructure for global computing. This paper presents Javelin++, an extension of Javelin, intended to support a much larger set of computational hosts. First, Javelin++'s sw... /

Sharing Resources among Periodic and Aperiodic Tasks with Dynamic.. - Caccamo, Lipari, Buttazzo (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling hybrid task sets consisting of hard periodic and soft aperiodic tasks that may share resources in exclusive mode in a dynamic environment, where tas... / is integrated with periodic task scheduling both under the RM algorithm br and J.P. Lehoczky Aperiodic Task Scheduling for Hard-Real-Time Systems

Efficient Value Function Approximation Using Regression Trees - Wang, Dietterich (1999)   (Correct)
Value function approximation is a problem central to reinforcement learning. Many applications of reinforcement learning have relied on neural network function approximators, which are very slow to tr... / good performance on a job-shop scheduling task and that it can be trained br On a resource-constrained scheduling task the regression tree method

A Unified Resource Scheduling Framework for Heterogeneous Computing.. - Alhusaini, Prasanna, Raghavendra (1999)   (Correct)
A major challenge in Metacomputing Systems (Computational Grids) is to effectively use their shared resources, such as compute cycles, memory, communication network, and data repositories, to optimize... / of Service QoS requirements. Task scheduling in a distributed system is a br algorithm for our generalized task scheduling problem with advance

Effective Complexity Reduction for Optimal Scheduling of Distributed.. - Jonsson (1999)   (Correct)
The application of optimal search strategies to scheduling for distributed real-time systems is, in general, plagued by an inherent computational complexity. This has effectively prevented the integra... / the choice of an arbitrary task scheduling operation. This is in br the end-to-end deadline. . Task scheduling In order to satisfy

Optimal Reward-Based Scheduling for Periodic Real-Time Tasks - Aydin, Melhem, Mosse, Mejia-Alvarez (1999)   (Correct)
Reward-based scheduling refers to the problem in which there is a reward associated with the execution of a task. In our framework, each real-time task comprises a mandatory and an optional part. Th... / Imprecise Computation Periodic Task Scheduling Deadline Scheduling Reward

The Janus-III Translation System: Speech-to-Speech Translation in.. - Levin, Lavie, Woszczyna, Gates.. (1999)   (Correct)
The Janus-III translation system translates spoken languages in limited domains. The current research focus is on is expanding beyond tasks involving a single semantic domain. The system combines t... / scheduling Spontaneous Scheduling Task or SST Travel planning is br On an English grammar for the scheduling task containing concepts

On the Edge of Planning and Scheduling: A Study - Bartak (1999)   (Correct)
Planning and scheduling are areas attracting an unceasing attention of computer science community. However, despite of their similar character, planning and scheduling problems are usually handled i... / border between planning and scheduling tasks is moved to a different level br for mixing both planning and scheduling tasks within single system and we

LLB: A Fast and Effective Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed-Memory .. - Radulescu, van Gemund, Lin (1999)   (Correct)
This paper presents a new algorithm called List-based Load Balancing (LLB) for compile-time task scheduling on distributed-memory machines. LLB is intended as a cluster-mapping and task-ordering step ... / LLB for compile-time task scheduling on distributed-memory br used for compile-time task scheduling on distributedmemory systems

A Large-Scale Stochastic-Perturbation Global Optimization Method for.. - Byrd, Eskow, Schnabel (1999)   (Correct)
this paper both involve the determination of the structure of clusters of atoms or molecules, but each application uses a di#erent potential energy function. The first potential is given by the sum of... / levels of parallelism with task scheduling done in an asynchronous

Experimental Assessment of the Period Calibration Method: A Case Study - Kim (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we present an experimental evaluation of the period calibration method (PCM) which was developed in (Gerber et al., 1994; Gerber et al., 1995) as a systematic design methodology for re... / major cycle completely defines task scheduling. Minor cycles are used for br digital controller real-time scheduling task graph design methodology

Transparent Replication for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Ada 95 - Wolf (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we present the foundations of RAPIDS ("Replicated Ada Partitions In Distributed Systems"), an implementation of the PCS supporting the transparent replication of partitions in distribute... / partition for instance task scheduling may well violate the order br is strongly reduced and task scheduling is restricted or even

Instruction Pre-Processing in Trace Processors - Jacobson, Smith (1999)   (Correct)
In trace processors, a sequential program is partitioned at run time into "traces." A trace is an encapsulation of a dynamic sequence of instructions. A processor that uses traces as the unit of sequ... / issue logic to complete the scheduling task. When an instruction is

Dynamic Task Migration in Home-based Software DSM Systems - Shi, Hu, Tang, Eskicioglu (1999)   (Correct)
Task migration is an effective strategy to achieve load balancing and high resource utilization in a meta-computing environment. In this paper, we argue that traditional task migration methods take in... / the processors. The dynamic task scheduling technique proposed by Liang br D-C. Liu and W. Zhu. Dynamic task scheduling on multithreaded distributed

Adding Local Priority-Based Dispatching Mechanisms to P-NET Networks: .. - Tovar, Vasques, Burns (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we address the real-time capabilities of P-NET, which is a multi-master fieldbus standard based on a virtual token passing scheme. We show how P-NET's medium access control (MAC) protoco... / the field of single processor task scheduling. We will adapt those results

Fault Tolerance by Transparent Replication for Distributed Ada 95 - Wolf, Strohmeier (1999)   (Correct)
This paper presents the foundations of RAPIDS ("Replicated Ada Partitions In Distributed Systems"), an implementation of the Distributed Systems Annex E incorporating the transparent replication of ... / generally are multitasked and task scheduling may well violate the order br of time-sliced pre-emptive task scheduling or by varying message

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