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A Fuzzy Inference System to Scheduling Tasks in Queueing Systems

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Intelligent Computing Methodologies (ICIC 2017)

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This paper studies the problem of scheduling customers or tasks in a queuing system. Generally the customers or a set of tasks in queuing system are attended according with different rules as round robin, equiprobable, shortest queue, among others. However, the condition of the system like the work in process, utilization and the length of queue is difficult to measure. We propose to use a fuzzy inference system in order to determine the status in the system depended of input variables like the length queue and the utilization. The experiment results shows an improvement in the performance measures compared with traditional scheduling policies.

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We would like to acknowledge to Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Científico at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia) by supporting partially under Grant No. 2-602-468-14. Last, but not least, the authors would like to thank the comments of the anonymous referees that significantly improved our paper.

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López-Santana, E.R., Franco, C., Figueroa-Garcia, J.C. (2017). A Fuzzy Inference System to Scheduling Tasks in Queueing Systems. In: Huang, DS., Hussain, A., Han, K., Gromiha, M. (eds) Intelligent Computing Methodologies. ICIC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63315-2_25

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