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English

Verb

scheduling

Noun

A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time

Translations

Czech: rozvrhování

vi:scheduling

WordNet scheduling
n : setting an order and time for planned events [syn: programming,
programing]

FOLDOC scheduling

The arrangement of a number of related operations
in time.

There are several kinds of scheduling related to computers:

instruction scheduling - sequencing the instructions
executed by the CPU

multitasking ("process scheduling") - sharing a CPU between
several processes

application software to help organise your daily meetings
etc.

task scheduling - algorithms to solve the general problem
of satisfying time and resource constraints between a number
of tasks.

Compare planning.

(1998-04-25)