Crossword clues for scheduling
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time 2 (context countable English) The time at which a particular event is scheduled vb. (present participle of schedule English)
WordNet
n. setting an order and time for planned events [syn: programming, programing]
Wikipedia
In computing, scheduling is the method by which work specified by some means is assigned to resources that complete the work. The work may be virtual computation elements such as threads, processes or data flows, which are in turn scheduled onto hardware resources such as processors, network links or expansion cards.
A scheduler is what carries out the scheduling activity. Schedulers are often implemented so they keep all computer resources busy (as in load balancing), allow multiple users to share system resources effectively, or to achieve a target quality of service. Scheduling is fundamental to computation itself, and an intrinsic part of the execution model of a computer system; the concept of scheduling makes it possible to have computer multitasking with a single central processing unit (CPU).
A scheduler may aim at one of many goals, for example, maximizing throughput (the total amount of work completed per time unit), minimizing response time (time from work becoming enabled until the first point it begins execution on resources), or minimizing latency (the time between work becoming enabled and its subsequent completion), maximizing fairness (equal CPU time to each process, or more generally appropriate times according to the priority and workload of each process). In practice, these goals often conflict (e.g. throughput versus latency), thus a scheduler will implement a suitable compromise. Preference is given to any one of the concerns mentioned above, depending upon the user's needs and objectives.
In real-time environments, such as embedded systems for automatic control in industry (for example robotics), the scheduler also must ensure that processes can meet deadlines; this is crucial for keeping the system stable. Scheduled tasks can also be distributed to remote devices across a network and managed through an administrative back end.
Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing work and workloads in a production process or manufacturing process. Scheduling is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production processes and purchase materials.
It is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process. In manufacturing, the purpose of scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by telling a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment. Production scheduling aims to maximize the efficiency of the operation and reduce costs.
Usage examples of "scheduling".
Apparently Hubbell was a last-minute stand-in after Mumia Abul-Jamal dropped out because of a scheduling conflict.
The families scheduling reunions in Pickax during the summer may have suggested ideas for his twice-weekly column, but his real interest was pure curiosity: He had never been a member of a family.
We have another ten hydrogenators to build, and then we can start scheduling training sessions for each chapter that will get one.
Many of the staff had already left for vacation during intersession, now that new scheduling had freed everyone from doing mini-courses between semesters.
Not only do we multitask, but we apply sophisticated critical-path scheduling algorithms to the second-by-second minutiae of daily life.
The problem was, Rahab had little child-care training, she seemed to have no sense of organization or scheduling, both of which were important parts of any effective child-care program.
Jeffrey Rhodes said sarcastically as he glanced up at the main anesthesia scheduling board in the anesthesia office.
Leaving the anesthesia office, he headed down the main OR corridor, passing the scheduling desk and its attendant bustle of activity.
The investigations have uncovered the fact that they had been routinely scheduling cervical' biopsies for normal Pap smears.
And I've learned that all the other things I tried to do along the way, such as my own publicity, my own travel arrangements, scheduling, bookkeeping, wardrobe, management, hairstyling, housekeeping, needed to be handed over to capable people who are the best at what they do!
In the vestibule, she put on a hood and booties, then stopped in front of the big scheduling board.
Organizational goals for the Councils of the Future thus become clear: dispersal, decentralization, interpenetration with the community, ad-hocratic administration, a break-up of the rigid system of scheduling and grouping.
There's talk of closing all national air space, and Hans is having real problems scheduling flights up.
Soon, back to the small office in the administration bungalow, back to signing slates allocating materiel to the various experiments, looking over the science team shifts in the five cramped labs, scheduling equipment and central processor time .
They were outside downside ops, on the main axis, the ring was still locked, the office the other side of the corridor was a steady traffic of check-ins, crew-cargo mass-check, stowage, and scheduling last half hour before undock… it could have been Sprite's ops area—it didn't feel different, except the rowdiness of the crew coming on.