With the relentless scaling of semiconductor technology, the lifetime reliability of embedded multiprocessor platforms has become one of the major concerns for the industry. If th...
In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and ...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...
The problem of scheduling the production of new and recoverable defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility is studied. Items are processed in batches. E...
M. S. Barketau, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kova...
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) virtual machines (VMs) allow users to take advantage of a multiprocessor infrastructure. Despite the advantage, SMP VMs can cause synchronization l...
We consider scheduling problems in which a job consists of components of different types to be processed on m machines. Each machine is capable of processing components of a singl...