Abstract. We propose a new solution approach for the Job Shop Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times (SDST-JSP). The problem consists in scheduling jobs, each job being a set ...
Christian Artigues, Sana Belmokhtar, Dominique Fei...
In the classical load balancing or multiprocessor scheduling problem, we are given a sequence of jobs of varying sizes and are asked to assign each job to one of the m empty proce...
It is common to evaluate scheduling policies based on their mean response times. Another important, but sometimes opposing, performance metric is a scheduling policy’s fairness....
A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
Grid computing has become very popular in big and widespread scientific communities with high computing demands, like high energy physics. Computing resources are being distribute...
Igor Sfiligoi, Daniel C. Bradley, Burt Holzman, Pa...