Professor of Management Science Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Maria Paola Scaparra is a Professor of Management Science and a member of the Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation ...

Abstract: This paper studies the scheduling of a large population of non-preemptive flexible electric loads, each of which has a flexible starting time but once started will follow a fixed load shape ...

Abstract: Although preemptive uniprocessor scheduling algorithms are able to successfully schedule some systems that cannot be scheduled by any non-preemptive scheduling algorithm, the run-time ...

An implementation of various CPU scheduling algorithms in C++. The algorithms included are First Come First Serve (FCFS), Round Robin (RR), Shortest Process Next (SPN), Shortest Remaining Time (SRT), ...

intervals. Each interrupt causes a context switch, so overhead increases with a larger number of interrupts. An argument for a small time quantum: Response time. A large time quantum will reduce the ...