Scheduling Background

These documents attempt to bring together background information on scheduling. In writing these documents, we have not attempted to be comprehensive, but rather have concentrated on information useful for Kestrel's ANTs project. The contents are:

1. Glossary: PDF or Postscript (4 May 2000)

Informal definitions of terms generic to scheduling.

2. Specifications: PDF or Postscript (5 May 2000)

Formal definitions of sort and operations for scheduling.

3. Algorithms: PDF or Postscript (5 May 2000)

Informal descriptions of classes of algorithms used in scheduling.