Peak demand is a well-known problem in the power grid. It denotes the amount of power required to supply consumers at times when demand is highest. Load peaks can have a negative impact on the stability of the power grid and maintenance costs for transmission and generation companies. Because of this, electricity prices often increase during peak demand. Currently, increasing use of plug-in hyb...

The n-job, m-machine flow shop scheduling problem is one of the most general job scheduling problems. This study deals with the multi objective optimization with the criteria of makespan minimization and minimization of total weighted flow time for the flow shop scheduling problem. The n-job mmachine problem is known to be NP hard problem, several meta heuristics have been applied so far in the...

In Agent Based Scheduling and Planning Systems, autonomous agents are used to represent enterprises and operating scheduling/planning tasks. As application domains become more and more complex, agents are required to handle a number of changing and uncertain factors. This requirement makes it necessary to embed state prediction mechanisms in Agent Based Scheduling and Planning Systems. In this ...

The Comprehensive Scheduling Controls In most reactive/adaptive real-time systems some control over indeterminate behavior constructs is needed to realize the overall system behavior. The set of all possible concurrency and scheduling controls used by a language is termed the Comprehensive Scheduling Controls. The comprehensive concurrency controls compute what computation could/should be done ...

Acknowledgments A Ph.D. thesis is the product of several years of work and, therefore, influenced by a lot of people. Here I would like to thank all of you who contributed, in one way or another, to me being able to finish this work. The following people deserve a special mention. First of all I thank Marc Uetz for the supervision during this trajectory. Starting with the final project of my ma...

Multimedia applications have time dependancies and require appropriate resource management and scheduling mechanisms. Additionally, such applications have typically large resource requirements, hence, methods to reduce these requirements are desirable. Contention situations occur when the execution of processes overlaps in time. This leads to additional management efforts like context switches ...