BATCH PROCESSING JOB STREAMS USING AND/OR PRECEDENCE LOGIC

摘要

A product and associated methodology provided for scheduling job streams and leveling machine loads automatically without regard to specific knowledge of a job's internals or estimates of its machine load and without specific knowledge of a machine's resources or its total machine load capability. This involves use of a generalized critical path method algorithm in conjunction with a resource leveling algorithm. The generalized CPM algorithm supports arbitrary precedence logic and precedence types. The invention can therefore provide automatic resource leveling in connection with a broad range of practical applications including managing resources of a computer network.