Implementation of the Scheduling Domain Description Model

• Authors: Alenka Baggia , Robert Leskovar , Miroljub Kljajić
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents the problem of auniform scheduling domain description. It was established that the algorithm used for scheduling is general, disregarding the type of scheduling domain. On the basis of five different scheduling domains, a general description model was developed. The research is focused on the programming application of the resource scheduling model, presented as a UML class diagram. Diverse meta-languages for the model description were considered. Of these XML, an EAV model and object oriented languages have shown to be the most effective. Even though Java is not widely used as a description language, it has proved effective as a meta-language for the description of the extensible scheduling model.

Keywords

EN

Scheduling; Domain description; Description Language; Object oriented analysis

SL

Razporejanje; Opis domene; Jezik za definicijo; Objektno orientirana analiza

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 226-232

Dates

published

2008-11-01

online

2009-02-23

Contributors

author

Alenka Baggia

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva cesta 55a, SI-4000 Kranj, Slovenia

author

Robert Leskovar

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva cesta 55a, SI-4000 Kranj, Slovenia

author

Miroljub Kljajić

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva cesta 55a, SI-4000 Kranj, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-008-0024-4