In traditional real-time multiprocessor schedulability analysis it is required that all tasks are entirely serial. This implies that if a task is written in a parallel language such as occam, all parallelism in the task must be suppressed to enable schedulability analysis. Part of the reason for this restriction is the difficulty in analysing execution times of programs with a complex parallel ...

A self-adaptive greedy scheduling scheme is presented to solve a MultiObjective Optimization on Identical Parallel Machines. The primary objective is to minimize the makespan, while the secondary objective makes the schedule more stable. Actual experiments revealed that the scheme obtained the optimal primary and secondary objectives for most cases. Moreover, schedules produced by the scheme we...

Temperature variation intensively affects parameters of the friction force, particularly the average bristle deflections. In our earlier research work, a temperature dependent friction compensation scheme was developed for serial rigid robot manipulators which was comprised of a temperature dependent viscous friction compensation scheme and a temperature dependent disturbance rejection scheme. ...

Parallel Evolutionary algorithms have been developed to reduce the running time of serial Evolutionary algorithms. Two major paradigms for parallel programming, Message Passing and Shared Memory, are implemented and their performance observed. Message Passing Interface (MPI) and TreadMarks runtime libraries are chosen to implement parallel Evolutionary algorithms, based on a synchronous master-...

Parallel Evolutionary algorithms have been developed to reduce the running time of serial Evolutionary algorithms. Two major paradigms for parallel programming, Message Passing and Shared Memory, are implemented and their performance observed. Message Passing Interface (MPI) and TreadMarks runtime libraries are chosen to implement parallel Evolutionary algorithms, based on a synchronous master-...

Based on the situation of the construction and software industry, this paper presents a multi-skilled human resource scheduling model which considers the skill and the salary of the workforce at different levels. It introduces a novel cuckoo search (CS)-based approach to optimize the objective function which combines the minimization of the makespan and the project cost. The proposed approach t...