Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Scheduling problems overall assume that it is possible to identify stable criteria definitions measuring the quality of alternatives. In real world problems however, this does not ...
In this article we present three key ideas which together form a flexible framework for maximizing user-perceived quality under given resources with modern video codecs (H.264). F...
Priorities are used to resolve conflicts such as in resource sharing and in safety designs. The use of priorities has become indispensable in real-time system design such as in s...