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In this paper, we propose a new method for multi-user, multicriteria job scheduling in Grid environments with QoS guarantees concerning time and cost. The main goal of our method is to find a fair schedule of jobs that were submitted by multiple users. To obtain a schedule which is satisfactory for each user we aim at finding a set of advance reservations (ARs) for multiple users at once. This goal is achieved by adequate use of the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator and Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) with carefully designed problem representation and operators. We also propose a data structure and algorithm used to manage and search for resource availability time slots. Efficiency and usefulness of our approach was demonstrated by computational experiments conducted within a simulation environment.
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Kurowski, K., Oleksiak, A. & Weglarz, J. Multicriteria, multi-user scheduling in grids with advance reservation. J Sched 13, 493–508 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-009-0142-8
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