Pre-scheduling—a management tool?

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to introduce some of the preliminary findings resulting from the studies into the management of a class of computer based information systems which were conducted in the School of Information and Computer Science of the Georgia Institute of Technology. One of the main accomplishments was the specification of a pre-scheduling system which could monitor existing and future workloads and could identify effective processing sequences. The pre-scheduling procedure and its basic components were outlined through the identification of the fundamental defining expressions. The possible effects of the implementation of such a procedure were investigated through several experiments and a summary of these have been presented as to the effects of the pre-scheduling upon management decisions.