Algorithms for the scheduling of tasks within a parallel program onto available processors generally assume that communication only occurs at the start or end of each task, i.e., a task can only commence execution when all necessary data has been sent to it. This is termed \non-preemptive task scheduling". This paper examines the problem of the preemptive parallel program which is represented b...

The scheduling of tasks within a parallel program onto the underlying available processors has been studied for some time. To date, solutions to this problem generally assume that communication only occurs at the start or end of each parallel task, i.e., the child task can only start its execution when all its parent tasks complete and have sent data to it. This is termed \non-preemptive task s...

Real-time signal processing applications can be described naturally with dataflow graphs. The systems we consider have a mix of real-time and non-real-time processing, where independent dataflow graphs represent tasks and individual dataflow actors are subtasks. Rate-monotonic scheduling is optimal for fixed-priority, preemptive scheduling of periodic tasks. Priority inheritance protocols exten...

We consider a scheduling problem, which we call the Scheduling and Wavelength Assignment (SWA) problem, arising in optical networks that are based on the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. We prove that the SWA problem is NP-hard for both the preemptive and the non-preemptive cases. Furthermore, we propose two eÆcient approximation algorithms. The rst is for the preemptive case ...

extensive research has been devoted to resource constrained project scheduling problem. however, little attention has been paid to problems where a certain time penalty must be incurred if activity preemption is allowed. in this paper, we consider the project scheduling problem of minimizing the total cost subject to resource constraints, earliness-tardiness penalties and preemption penalties, ...

Edge-finding bounding techniques are particular constraint propagation techniques which reason about the order in which several activities can execute on a given resource. The aim of the following paper is to provide a rather comprehensive (although necessarily incomplete) review of existing edge-finding algorithms. The simplest case of non-preemptive disjunctive scheduling is reviewed first, f...

Acknowledgement I would like to express my sincere acknowledgements to the Mälardalen University and East China University of Science and Technology for the precious chance they have provided to realize and complete my one year study here with my total satisfaction. Special appreciation goes to Dr. Radu Dobrin, Dr. Moris Behnam, Abhilash Thekkilakattil for giving me all the support that I neede...

in this paper we consider the non-preemptive variant of a multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (mrcpsp) with mode identity, in which a set of project activities is partitioned into disjoint subsets while all activities forming one subset have to be processed in the same mode. we present a depth-first branch and bound algorithm for the resource constrained project schedulin...

In this paper, we investigate the quality of several linear-time schedulability tests for preemptive and non-preemptive fixed-priority scheduling of uniprocessor systems. The metric used to assess the quality of these tests is the resource augmentation bound commonly known as the processor speedup factor. The speedup factor of a schedulability test corresponds to the smallest factor by which th...

nowadays, scheduling problems have a considerable application in production and service systems. in this paper, we consider the scheduling of n jobs on a single machine assuming no machine idleness, non-preemptive jobs and equal process times. in many of previous researches, because of the delivery dalays and holding costs, earliness and tardiness penalties emerge in the form of linear combinat...