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      Distributed scheduling: a review of concepts and applications

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      Toptal, A.
      Sabuncuoglu, I.
      Date
      2010
      Source Title
      International Journal of Production Research
      Print ISSN
      0020-7543
      Electronic ISSN
      1366-588X
      Publisher
      Taylor & Francis
      Volume
      48
      Issue
      18
      Pages
      5235 - 5262
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Distributed scheduling (DS) is an approach that enables local decision makers to create schedules that consider local objectives and constraints within the boundaries of the overall system objectives. Local decisions from different parts of the system are then integrated through coordination and communication mechanisms. Distributed scheduling attracts the interest of many researchers from a variety of disciplines, such as computer science, economics, manufacturing, and service operations management. One reason is that the problems faced in this area include issues ranging from information architectures, to negotiation mechanisms, to the design of scheduling algorithms. In this paper, we provide a survey and a critical analysis of the literature on distributed scheduling. While we propose a comprehensive taxonomy that accounts for many factors related to distributed scheduling, we also analyse the body of research in which the scheduling aspect is rigorously discussed. The focus of this paper is to review the studies that concern scheduling algorithms in a distributed architecture, not, for example, protocol languages or database architectures. The contribution of this paper is twofold: to unify the literature within our scope under a common terminology and to determine the critical design factors unique to distributed scheduling and in relation to centralised scheduling.
      Keywords
      Dİstributed scheduling
      Heterarchical systems
      Hierarchical systems
      Agents
      Decomposition
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22483
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540903121065
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